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Application of Certain Principles for Education and Shop-Floor Learning Practices for Assembly Work at the Volvo Uddevalla Plant—A Brief Overview

In: Technology Convergence and System Divergence

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  • Lennart Nilsson

    (Gothenburg University)

  • Tomas Engström

    (Chalmers University of Technology)

Abstract

This chapter, co-authored by Nilsson and Engström, treats education and shop-floor learning principles from historical and scientific perspectives. Theories and practices were amalgamated during several decades of research and development work within the Swedish automotive industry long before the Volve Uddevalla projection process. This process intensified further during the Volvo Uddevalla projection process, which was mainly accomplished in a temporary workshop in Uddevalla (though, some parts of the prehistory are also cowered). This workforce was later moved to an entirely new assembly plant with material feeding by materials kits and small parallel workgroups, who single-handedly completed the assembly of automobiles with extensively long work cycle times—the advanced and unorthodox Volvo Uddevalla assembly plant. This projection process latter reached a full-scale manufacturing pace and required both authors’ involvement in various aspects.

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  • Lennart Nilsson & Tomas Engström, 2025. "Application of Certain Principles for Education and Shop-Floor Learning Practices for Assembly Work at the Volvo Uddevalla Plant—A Brief Overview," Springer Books, in: Hikari Nohara & Lars Medbo (ed.), Technology Convergence and System Divergence, chapter 0, pages 125-194, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-96-1910-8_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-1910-8_3
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