Shop floor control-a integrative framework from static scheduling models towards an agile operations management

Shop floor control is an object for research in various disciplines from engineering, management to the social sciences. No comprehensive framework or even overview on shop floor control research currently exists. As a result, many problems of the real world remain unsolved, because deterministic approaches-from research and practice-have significant drawbacks. Due to the fixation on mathematical solutions in traditional research, many potentials present in real world production are not considered, e.g., operator experience, motivation and qualifications, are not taken into account. The pragmatic approach of stable system design is based on a paradigm of social control through command and controllability and therefore tries to prevent any change and innovation as such.