Abstract
AbstractThis article is a summary of new trends in the American and German nonautomotive metal manufacturing industry. The emerging process technologies are examined: cellular manufacturing in the case of the U.S. and production islands in the case of Germany. The focus is on the work organization that envelops these technologies, particularly the notion of group work, which is a central part of these new process technologies.
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