Human Resource Practices for Implementing Advanced Manufacturing Technology (1986) / Chapter Skim
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The importance and widespread applicability of the question led the National Commission for Employment Policy to ank that the Manufacturing Studies Board (MSB) of the National Research Council appoint a committee to produce a report on the experience of companies that have used effective human resource practices for implementing AMT.
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8 FIGURE 1 Scheme for the Integration of Four Types of Advanced Manufacturing Technology MRP Manufacturing Resource Planning ~ it\ / ~ Computer Integrated Manufacturing 1~1 C A D /C A E Computer-Aided Computer-Aided ~ - ~ ~ Manufacturing sign Robots CNC/DNC and Erig~n~ring ~ FMS Testing CA PP Computer Aided Process Pianning
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can vary in sophistication from computers that serve as electronic drafting boards to those that test alternative designs on the screen for stress, function, and other characteristics, and then translate the design into a program to produce the product. Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II)
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The committee designed this report primarily to inform managers, union officials, and workers with little experience in implementing AMT about practices being used by early adopters of AMT. So that readers of the report would recognize site findings as potentially applicable to themselves, the committee selected North American plants operated by U.S.
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~ Introduction of AMT accon~panled by changes in process Layout, plant renovation, or new plant construction. Introduction of AMr associated with development of a new product or modification of an exsetinq product.
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that willingness to innovate is a general management attribute that can manifest itself in various ways. Five of the six leaders in human resource practices are nonunion plants, which is consistent with the commonly held belief that it is difficult to introduce new technology in existing, unionized plants.
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The apparent lack of adverse effects, such an increased job pressure or increased tension between management and unions, at the sites visited is probably due to the co~nittee's site selection criteria. The rites visited were, in general, effectively implementinq AMT and using innovative human resource practices.
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These issues warrant attention as the technology continues to evolve.
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