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Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla plant as an alternative to lean production
Enriching Production was first published by Avebury in 1995. The book was quickly sold out and is now made available again. Enriching Production was edited by professor Ă
ke Sandberg, Arbetslivsinstitutet/ National Institute for Working Life and KTH The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Enriching Production was followed up by a symposium on the general theme of âGood work and productivityâ. The papers were collected in a special issue of Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 19, No 1, February 1998. There will also be follow up articles on Volvo and alternative production systems in a forthcoming reader Absolut management. Scandinavian perspectives on management in the new working life, to be published by SNS förlag, Stockholm, 2007/2008.
Abstract
Both researchers and practitioners in industrial organization ask themselves today whether lean production is the only possible model for the future. Enriching Production proposes a radically different alternative, which was put into practice at Volvoâs Uddevalla plant during its brief life span. Skilled workers in autonomous teams could altogether abandon the assembly line. With a work content of several hours they built cars according to customer order, with a short delivery time, thus avoiding stocks. In spite of its good performance the plant was closed after only a few years without having developed its full potential.
Enriching Production explains the design of the Uddevalla plant and tries to understand its closure against a background of organizational politics and Volvoâs production structure. In comparative chapters the NUMMI and Saturn plants in the US and European car manufacturers are contrasted to the Uddevalla model and also to Volvoâs Kalmar plant with still another form of group work. Chapters on social problems with lean production and recent developments in Japanese car manufacturing also contribute to an understanding of where the car building industry and the organization of industrial production is heading. Although the Uddevalla plant in its original form was closed, the vision of competitive systems of production that do not destroy but enhance human competencies and in a a wider sense a human working life lives on. Enriching Production contributes by reminding us that under certain circumstances good and competitive ways of arranging production are possible.
Content
Preface
The book and its authors
The Uddevalla experience in perspective
Ă
ke Sandberg
Part I
Volvoâs innovative Uddevalla and Kalmar plants. The creation of a new production system at the Volvo automobile assembly plant in Uddevalla, Sweden,
Kajsa EllegÄrd
Production system design â a brief summary of some Swedish design efforts,
Tomas Engström and Lars Medbo
The Uddevalla plant: Why did it succeed with a holistic approach and why did it come to an end?
Lennart Nilsson
Volvo Kalmar â twice a pioneer
Thomas Sandberg
Part II
The performance of the Uddevalla plant in a comparative perspective. The fate of the branch plants â performance versus power
Christian Berggren
Assembly skills, process engineering and engineering design
Henrik Blomgren and Bo Karlson
Building for new production concepts
Colin Clipson, Jesper Steen, Anders Törnqvist and Peter Ullmark
Designed for learning: A tale of two auto plants
Paul S. Adler and Robert E. Cole
Limits to innovation in work organization?
Bob Hancké and Saul Rubinstein
Group work and the reception of Uddevalla in German car industry
Ulrich JĂŒrgens
Part III
Volvo car plants internationally and the alliance with Renault. Volvo truck and bus in the UK: The clash of the Titans
Paul Thompson and Terry Wallace
Volvo-Gent: A Japanese transplant in Belgium or beyond?
Rik Huys and Geert Van Hootegem
First DAF, then Volvo and now Mitsubishi
Ben Dankbaar
Missing the road: Working life at Volvo Nova Scotia
L. Anders Sandberg
Volvo in Malaysia
Hing Ai Yun
The origins of team work at Renault
Michel Freyssenet
Fait accompli? A Machiavellian interpretation of the RenaultâVolvo merger
Karel Williams, Colin Haslam and Sukhdev Johal
Part IV
Beyond lean production Japanese work policy: Opportunity, challenge or threat?
Norbert Altmann
Lean production in the automobile industry: Second thoughts
Dan Jonsson
Humanization of the production system and work at Toyota Motor Co and Toyota Motor Kyushu
Koichi Shimizu
Recent developments at Toyota Motor Co
Terje Grönning
Social preconditions for lean management and its further development
Paul Lillrank
Lean production. The Micro-Macro dimension, employment and the welfare state
Peter Auer
Key words
Automobile, Automobile industry, car makers, employment relationships, team working, team leaders, lean production, reflective production, moving line, fordism, taylorism, toyotism, Volvo, Volvo Uddevalla plant, Volvo Kalmar plant, Volvo Gent plant, division of work, NUMMI, SATURN, Toyota, Volkswagen, Renault, Mitsubishi, DAF.
Concerned disciplines
Economics, Ergonomics, Management, Geography, History, History of Sciences and Technologies, Engineering, Cognitive sciences, Sociology.
Writing context
References, commentaries, critics
âThis book -- a careful selection of well informed and provoking papers -- provides a solid basis for a reassessment of the socio-technical experiments at the Uddevalla plant and for a critical debate of the lean production system in industry.â
Prof. Dr. Frieder Naschold
âThis volume should come to represent a classic for all those interested in different national and international trajectories of work and design in industry.â
Alan Jenkins, in Organization Studies
âAn invaluable aspect of Sandbergâs book is the wealth of comparative information, not only about other Volvo plants in Sweden, but also with regard to those in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malaysia and Canada. ⊠this invaluable collection of readings raises a wide range of additional questions which takes the critical debate about lean production significantly further. Its message is not only of relevance to academics, and managers unconvinced by the evangelical enthusiasm of many advocates of lean production, but also to those trade unions which are keen to preserve their independence through the development of new bargaining strategies in the face of an onslaught of new management techniques.â
Dave Beale, in Industrial Relations Journal
â⊠this is an important book and one to be read by academics and practitioners alike. Although it appears as a narrative relating to a single company, it goes beyond this; asking what it is we seek from work reforms.â
Peter Cressey, in New Technology, Work and Employment
âThis book closes the chapter on Uddevallaâs heroic experiment. It helps the sympathetic reader understand what really happened there, and it draws out the positive lessons of Uddevalla for the very unfinished chapter of ongoing worldwide production and work reorganization in todayâs turbulent markets.â
Lowell Turner, in Industrial and Labour Relations Review
ââŠessential reading for all those interested in the auto industry and the challenging innovations associated with Volvo.â
Russel Lansbury, in Economic and Industrial Democracy
ââŠdetailed and compellingâŠEnriching Production provides researchers with a very deep vein of information and analysis.â
Steve Babson, in Work and Occupations
âThis is a valuable collectionâŠfor researchers in this area, and for those who teach in the field, this is a useful addition to the literature.â
Human Resource Management Journal
âBy its rich content, Enriching production is a good vehicle for keeping the discourse on alternative production systems rolling; and on the roadâ
Lars Normann Mikkelsen, in Acta Sociologica
Curent relevance
See also
â Freyssenet M., âLa production rĂ©flexive, une alternative Ă la production de masse et Ă la production au plus juste?â, Sociologie du Travail, n°3/1995, pp 365-388. Ădition numĂ©rique, freyssenet.com, 2007, 320 ko, ISSN 1776-0941. Version modifiĂ©e et augmentĂ©e en anglais : Freyssenet M., âReflective production: an alternative to mass-production and lean production?â, Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 19, n°1, february 1998, pp 91-117. Digital publication, freyssenet.com , 2006, 280 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.
â Charron E., Freyssenet M., âLâusine dâUddevalla dans la trajectoire de Volvoâ, Actes du GERPISA, n°9, mars 1994, pp 161-183. Ăditions numĂ©riques, gerpisa.univ-evry.fr, 2001, 88 Ko; freyssenet.com , 2006, 1 Mo. Version en espagnol, Charron E., Freyssenet M., âLa âproduccion reflexivaâ en la fabrica Volvo de Uddevallaâ, Sociologia del trabajo, 1996, 27, pp 103-129.
â Charron E., Freyssenet M., âLâusine dâUddevalla dans la trajectoire de Volvo, annexe photographiqueâ, Actes du GERPISA, n°9, mars 1994, pp 161-183. Ădition numĂ©rique, freyssenet.com , 2006, 10,4 Mo.
â Freyssenet M., Lâusine sans chaĂźnes. Volvo Uddevalla. Diaporama. 63 photos. Ădition numĂ©rique, freyssenet.com, 2006, 13,7 Mo.
Last presentation page updating
2007.03.14
Date of the putting on line of the downloadable book
2007.03.18, Sandberg Ă
. (ed.), Enriching Production. Perspectives on Volvoâs Uddevalla plant as an alternative to lean production, Avebury, Aldershot (UK), 1995, 459 p. Digital edition, New Preface, Ă
ke Sandberg, Stockholm, 2007. Ădition numĂ©rique, freyssenet.com, 2007, 5,7 Mo, ISSN 7116-0941
Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla plant as an alternative to lean production
Enriching Production was first published by Avebury in 1995. The book was quickly sold out and is now made available again. Enriching Production was edited by professor Ă
ke Sandberg, Arbetslivsinstitutet/ National Institute for Working Life and KTH The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Enriching Production was followed up by a symposium on the general theme of âGood work and productivityâ. The papers were collected in a special issue of Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 19, No 1, February 1998. There will also be follow up articles on Volvo and alternative production systems in a forthcoming reader Absolut management. Scandinavian perspectives on management in the new working life, to be published by SNS förlag, Stockholm, 2007/2008.
Abstract
Both researchers and practitioners in industrial organization ask themselves today whether lean production is the only possible model for the future. Enriching Production proposes a radically different alternative, which was put into practice at Volvoâs Uddevalla plant during its brief life span. Skilled workers in autonomous teams could altogether abandon the assembly line. With a work content of several hours they built cars according to customer order, with a short delivery time, thus avoiding stocks. In spite of its good performance the plant was closed after only a few years without having developed its full potential.
Enriching Production explains the design of the Uddevalla plant and tries to understand its closure against a background of organizational politics and Volvoâs production structure. In comparative chapters the NUMMI and Saturn plants in the US and European car manufacturers are contrasted to the Uddevalla model and also to Volvoâs Kalmar plant with still another form of group work. Chapters on social problems with lean production and recent developments in Japanese car manufacturing also contribute to an understanding of where the car building industry and the organization of industrial production is heading. Although the Uddevalla plant in its original form was closed, the vision of competitive systems of production that do not destroy but enhance human competencies and in a a wider sense a human working life lives on. Enriching Production contributes by reminding us that under certain circumstances good and competitive ways of arranging production are possible.
Content
Preface
The book and its authors
The Uddevalla experience in perspective
Ă
ke Sandberg
Part I
Volvoâs innovative Uddevalla and Kalmar plants. The creation of a new production system at the Volvo automobile assembly plant in Uddevalla, Sweden,
Kajsa EllegÄrd
Production system design â a brief summary of some Swedish design efforts,
Tomas Engström and Lars Medbo
The Uddevalla plant: Why did it succeed with a holistic approach and why did it come to an end?
Lennart Nilsson
Volvo Kalmar â twice a pioneer
Thomas Sandberg
Part II
The performance of the Uddevalla plant in a comparative perspective. The fate of the branch plants â performance versus power
Christian Berggren
Assembly skills, process engineering and engineering design
Henrik Blomgren and Bo Karlson
Building for new production concepts
Colin Clipson, Jesper Steen, Anders Törnqvist and Peter Ullmark
Designed for learning: A tale of two auto plants
Paul S. Adler and Robert E. Cole
Limits to innovation in work organization?
Bob Hancké and Saul Rubinstein
Group work and the reception of Uddevalla in German car industry
Ulrich JĂŒrgens
Part III
Volvo car plants internationally and the alliance with Renault. Volvo truck and bus in the UK: The clash of the Titans
Paul Thompson and Terry Wallace
Volvo-Gent: A Japanese transplant in Belgium or beyond?
Rik Huys and Geert Van Hootegem
First DAF, then Volvo and now Mitsubishi
Ben Dankbaar
Missing the road: Working life at Volvo Nova Scotia
L. Anders Sandberg
Volvo in Malaysia
Hing Ai Yun
The origins of team work at Renault
Michel Freyssenet
Fait accompli? A Machiavellian interpretation of the RenaultâVolvo merger
Karel Williams, Colin Haslam and Sukhdev Johal
Part IV
Beyond lean production Japanese work policy: Opportunity, challenge or threat?
Norbert Altmann
Lean production in the automobile industry: Second thoughts
Dan Jonsson
Humanization of the production system and work at Toyota Motor Co and Toyota Motor Kyushu
Koichi Shimizu
Recent developments at Toyota Motor Co
Terje Grönning
Social preconditions for lean management and its further development
Paul Lillrank
Lean production. The Micro-Macro dimension, employment and the welfare state
Peter Auer
Key words
Automobile, Automobile industry, car makers, employment relationships, team working, team leaders, lean production, reflective production, moving line, fordism, taylorism, toyotism, Volvo, Volvo Uddevalla plant, Volvo Kalmar plant, Volvo Gent plant, division of work, NUMMI, SATURN, Toyota, Volkswagen, Renault, Mitsubishi, DAF.
Concerned disciplines
Economics, Ergonomics, Management, Geography, History, History of Sciences and Technologies, Engineering, Cognitive sciences, Sociology.
Writing context
References, commentaries, critics
âThis book -- a careful selection of well informed and provoking papers -- provides a solid basis for a reassessment of the socio-technical experiments at the Uddevalla plant and for a critical debate of the lean production system in industry.â
Prof. Dr. Frieder Naschold
âThis volume should come to represent a classic for all those interested in different national and international trajectories of work and design in industry.â
Alan Jenkins, in Organization Studies
âAn invaluable aspect of Sandbergâs book is the wealth of comparative information, not only about other Volvo plants in Sweden, but also with regard to those in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malaysia and Canada. ⊠this invaluable collection of readings raises a wide range of additional questions which takes the critical debate about lean production significantly further. Its message is not only of relevance to academics, and managers unconvinced by the evangelical enthusiasm of many advocates of lean production, but also to those trade unions which are keen to preserve their independence through the development of new bargaining strategies in the face of an onslaught of new management techniques.â
Dave Beale, in Industrial Relations Journal
â⊠this is an important book and one to be read by academics and practitioners alike. Although it appears as a narrative relating to a single company, it goes beyond this; asking what it is we seek from work reforms.â
Peter Cressey, in New Technology, Work and Employment
âThis book closes the chapter on Uddevallaâs heroic experiment. It helps the sympathetic reader understand what really happened there, and it draws out the positive lessons of Uddevalla for the very unfinished chapter of ongoing worldwide production and work reorganization in todayâs turbulent markets.â
Lowell Turner, in Industrial and Labour Relations Review
ââŠessential reading for all those interested in the auto industry and the challenging innovations associated with Volvo.â
Russel Lansbury, in Economic and Industrial Democracy
ââŠdetailed and compellingâŠEnriching Production provides researchers with a very deep vein of information and analysis.â
Steve Babson, in Work and Occupations
âThis is a valuable collectionâŠfor researchers in this area, and for those who teach in the field, this is a useful addition to the literature.â
Human Resource Management Journal
âBy its rich content, Enriching production is a good vehicle for keeping the discourse on alternative production systems rolling; and on the roadâ
Lars Normann Mikkelsen, in Acta Sociologica
Curent relevance
See also
â Freyssenet M., âLa production rĂ©flexive, une alternative Ă la production de masse et Ă la production au plus juste?â, Sociologie du Travail, n°3/1995, pp 365-388. Ădition numĂ©rique, freyssenet.com, 2007, 320 ko, ISSN 1776-0941. Version modifiĂ©e et augmentĂ©e en anglais : Freyssenet M., âReflective production: an alternative to mass-production and lean production?â, Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 19, n°1, february 1998, pp 91-117. Digital publication, freyssenet.com , 2006, 280 Ko, ISSN 7116-0941.
â Charron E., Freyssenet M., âLâusine dâUddevalla dans la trajectoire de Volvoâ, Actes du GERPISA, n°9, mars 1994, pp 161-183. Ăditions numĂ©riques, gerpisa.univ-evry.fr, 2001, 88 Ko; freyssenet.com , 2006, 1 Mo. Version en espagnol, Charron E., Freyssenet M., âLa âproduccion reflexivaâ en la fabrica Volvo de Uddevallaâ, Sociologia del trabajo, 1996, 27, pp 103-129.
â Charron E., Freyssenet M., âLâusine dâUddevalla dans la trajectoire de Volvo, annexe photographiqueâ, Actes du GERPISA, n°9, mars 1994, pp 161-183. Ădition numĂ©rique, freyssenet.com , 2006, 10,4 Mo.
â Freyssenet M., Lâusine sans chaĂźnes. Volvo Uddevalla. Diaporama. 63 photos. Ădition numĂ©rique, freyssenet.com, 2006, 13,7 Mo.
Last presentation page updating
2007.03.14
Date of the putting on line of the downloadable book
2007.03.18, Sandberg Ă
. (ed.), Enriching Production. Perspectives on Volvoâs Uddevalla plant as an alternative to lean production, Avebury, Aldershot (UK), 1995, 459 p. Digital edition, New Preface, Ă
ke Sandberg, Stockholm, 2007. Ădition numĂ©rique, freyssenet.com, 2007, 5,7 Mo, ISSN 7116-0941
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