The Shape of Future Technology The Anthropocentric Alternative

The Shape of Future Technology The Anthropocentric Alternative / by Peter Brödner.

Mike Cooley One of the most remarkable features of modern industrial society, is the gap between that which technology could provide for society (its potential) and that which it actually does provide for society (its reality). We have for example, complex control systems which can guide a missile t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brödner, Peter (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 1990.
Edition:1st ed. 1990.
Series:Human-centred Systems,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Industrial engineering.
Production engineering.
Production management.
Computer-aided engineering.
Artificial intelligence.
Control engineering.
Robotics.
Mechatronics.
Engineering economics.
Engineering economy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Factory of the Future
  • 1.1 Prophecies by the Dozen
  • 1.2 Banish the False Prophets!
  • 1.3 The Workshop, not the Production Line
  • 2. The Origins and Nature of the Factory
  • 2.1 The Heroic Phase
  • 2.2 The Computer and the Automation of “One-offs”
  • 2.3 Today’s Factory: Unresolved Problems
  • 3. The Technocentric Route: Fossilized Taylorism
  • 3.1 “The Ghost Shift”: Forerunner of the Workerless Factory?
  • 3.2 White-Collar Automation
  • 3.3 The Failure of Isolated Systems
  • 3.4 The Second “Heroic Phase”: CIM and Expert Systems
  • 4. The Anthropocentric Route: The Return of the Human Being
  • 4.1 The Workerless Factory: Signs of Return
  • 4.2 Human or Machine: Who Controls?
  • 4.3 Group Technology: A Non-Taylorist Route
  • 4.4 Forces of Inertia
  • 5. Horizons New: Farewell to Necessary Work?
  • 5.1 Investment Decision Making: Pastures New
  • 5.2 Work Planning is Available in Every Case
  • 5.3 The Dangers of Segmentation
  • 5.4 Conclusion: For and Against the Anthropocentric Production Concept.

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