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To many, new to the field of Group Technology, there seems to be some kind of special mystique which surrounds components, machines and tooling. There is no human factor of any significance when ‘technical’ factors such as these are discussed. This paper suggests that in order to understand the overall systems concept of GT, it is necessary to look at management, unions, the community of operators on the shop floor and the individual.
In order to do justice to these important and too often ignored factors it has been necessary to give the authors’ interpretation of the nature of GT, the cell system and its development so far, before dealing with the human factors.
The current over-concentration of much of the talk surrounding GT with techniques of analysis justifies a paper which attempts to deal with some of the ‘people’ factors.
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Edwards, G.A.B., Fazakerley, G.M. (1974). The Cell System of Production Embraces Group Technology and also Concerns Management, Technical and Social Change. In: Koenigsberger, F., Tobias, S.A. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01921-2_28
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