High Performance Manufacturing - the Need for Comprehensive Change

The theoretical arguments as well as the empirical results summerised in this paper emphasisea few lessons to be learned. First of all and most important: The shift to human-centered highperformance manufacturing systems is an economic necessity and direct participation is a keyissue to comprehensive renewal. Despite all differences in appearances and practice in variousindustrial cultures, it has proven to be an appropriate means to master the necessary fundamentalchange in manufacturing...