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shop floor

the part of a factory housing the machines and men directly involved in production

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Open Tennis Championship.) At Midvale, he developed and put into place the basic elements of what later came to be known as "scientific management": the breakdown of work tasks into constituent elements; the timing of each element based on repeated stopwatch studies; the fixing of piece rate compensation based on those studies; standardization of work tasks on detailed instruction cards; and generally, the systematic consolidation of the shop floor's brain work in a "planning department."

The man with the plan

Absent more democratic relations on the shop floor, we are likely to have little more than a proliferation of feel-good laws followed either by disillusionment or endless controversies surrounding intrusive and often costly and in efficient modes of government regulation.

The politics of family leave

The Bluestones' answer is to create a more genuinely entrepreneurial capitalism by empowering workers on the shop floor. Workers would be involved in all areas of decision-making from job design to product planning, plant siting, finance, and advertising.

Negotiating the Future

The research question we address is what factors tend to motivate the use of nonfinancial/operational information systems on the shop floor that report performance to workers.

Manufacturing performance reporting for continuous quality improvement

What these tensions translate into is a form of low-intensity conflict on the shop floor, with workers filing grievances, supervisors taking disciplinary action, and the two tearing at each others' throats in ways more than metaphorical.

Why America loves letter carriers and hates postal clerks

He suggests that government support for a policy of wage restraint was a factor strengthening the employers' side in resistance to pressure from the shop floor. The removal of that support in the late 1950s undermined the fragile unity that motor employers had achieved and with it their will to resist a rising tide of shop-floor bargaining power.

Shop floor bargaining and the state: historical and comparative perspectives

As a result, up to 290 shop floor positions are now at risk of redundancy in the UK, including roles in Wrexham .

JCB launches fresh wave of job cuts at Wrexham sites

"By automating the information flow, companies can better manage operations both vertically, Shop Floor to Top Floor and horizontally across the plant."

Memex is Expanding Worldwide Operations Into Europe

Powered by +24 VDC and with fully processed outputs, these sensors set a new benchmark for the simplification of applying high frequency monitoring techniques on the shop floor. New for 2010 is the AE-Ultraspan wireless sensor, which provides an ideal investigative and diagnostic tool for shop floor use irrespective of a machines speed or motion (rotary, linear, reciprocating or intermittent).

Holroyd instruments H9

Engineering shop floor areas are traditionally hostile environments for conventional computer equipment due to the dust and metal particles in the atmosphere.

Free help from the Automatic Identification and Data Capture Centre; MANY ECONOMISTS PREDICT THAT ANY GREEN SHOOTS OF RECOVERY IN THE WELSH ECONOMY MUST START IN THE SME SECTOR, PARTICULARLY IN MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING

Studying worker experiences on the shop floor at two tortilla factories, one in California and one across the US-Mexican border in Baja California, Munoz (sociology, City U.

Transnational tortillas; race, gender, and shop-floor politics in Mexico and the United States

As a manufacturer, you know where your money is made--on the shop floor, day in and day out.