A software system to support work planning in decentralized organization structures

Author

Westerwick, Axel ; Woyke, Alexander ; Hartmann, Ernst A. ; Henning, Klaus

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. in Mech. Eng., Tech. Hochschule Aachen, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1085

Abstract

To compete in complex and dynamic global markets, industry today tries to meet customer demands. Therefore, the system of product development and production-the product delivery process-has to be improved continuously. This paper deals with the correlation between an organisational change process and the delivery process of a software system to support work planning on the shopfloor. From a theoretical approach, the interaction between organisational change processes and the product delivery processes of the technical systems used in the organisation are discussed. Then the participation of both members of the organisation and users is described as an appropriate method for an integrated process design. A software-based work planning system is then described, regarding the integrated design of orthogonal processes. Finally, examples of deliberately linking organisational and product delivery processes are demonstrated

Keywords

management of change; manufacturing data processing; planning; product development; complex dynamic global markets; customer demands; decentralized organization structures; integrated design; integrated process design; organisational change process; orthogonal processes; participation; product delivery process improvement; product development; production; shopfloor; software-based work planning system; technical systems; Computer science; Electronic switching systems; Joining processes; Mechanical engineering; Metal product industries; Metals industry; Process design; Process planning; Research and development; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.814244

Filename

814244