Work Study: Volume 48 Issue 4
Table of contents
Facilities design for an integrated structure
William WrennallTraditional approaches to facilities design are set within traditional hierarchical, functionally‐divided organizations. The competitive business environment is causing…
The case for CASE
James EatonComputer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) attempts to improve the productivity of systems development by imposing a discipline and a set of common tools on the development…
Agile manufacturing
Sharon ParkinsonThere have been a number of attempts to describe and promote more flexible approaches to manufacturing. This paper describes the principles underpinning a method known as agile…
Using information systems to paint the big picture
Anthony DeanThere is a tension between improvement approaches which start from a holistic overview of a process and those that are based on detailed, low‐level analysis. This paper argues…
Continuous improvement improved
Anne WebsterThere is no one performance improvement methodology or technique which is universally applicable. Analyses the various approaches to performance improvement that have been used…