Developing Unique Production and Work Structuring Principles Trough a Creative Search and Learning Process: The Uddevalla Final Assembly Plant

The discussion and analysis of the assembly line, as practised in the automotive industry, tends to be dominated either by researchers from a “human-centred” orientation or by writers who have adopted a point of view inspired by economic models, organisation theory and management literature. In our view, this has led to a bias in defining problems and their considering solutions.