Chalmers Conferences, The 6th Swedish Production Symposium

THE FUTURE SWEDISH SHOP-FLOOR OPERATOR
Magnus Holm, Göran Adamson, Lihui Wang, Philip Moore

Last modified: 2014-11-25

Abstract


This paper is based on a study in which production and HR managers at six Swedish manufacturing industries have been interviewed about the role of the shop-floor operator, taking off in today’s situation in trying to identify the future one. As well as the production methods and the machines etc. in the production system continuously evolve, so does the environment of the shop-floor operator. Increasing complexity in the production systems raises demands on the operators’ ability to handle ICT-tools to gain decision support and knowledge needed in the future shop-floor environment.


Keywords


Shop-floor operator, Future production

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