{"title":"Knowledge building and concurrent engineering in manufacturing automation","authors":"F. Dubinskas","doi":"10.1109/PICMET.1991.183740","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given, as follows. The author addresses modeling of the knowledge-building and project management processes in an advanced concurrent engineering project in manufacturing automation. The present work is based on 18 months of intensive field research in a US plant and with its Japanese equipment vendor. This research examined unfolding changes in core automation team integration, the partnership with the Japanese vendor, and overall project performance. A dual model is proposed for opposing styles of knowledge management: The first type is a constricting, funnel model, with early variety reduction and tight, staged control. This model fits a traditional Taylorist paradigm for division of labor and control of knowledge. The second type is a more chaotic fermentation vat model, characterized by continuous idea generation, tolerance for ambiguity, and emergent specification of details. These extremes (or Weberian ideal types) anchor the ends of a continuum of actual practice. The field data show the relevance of the dual model for conceptualizing a field of possibility against which a shift in the practical approach to managing knowledge resources occurs during the course of the project.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":22349,"journal":{"name":"Technology Management : the New International Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1991-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Technology Management : the New International Language","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.1991.183740","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Summary form only given, as follows. The author addresses modeling of the knowledge-building and project management processes in an advanced concurrent engineering project in manufacturing automation. The present work is based on 18 months of intensive field research in a US plant and with its Japanese equipment vendor. This research examined unfolding changes in core automation team integration, the partnership with the Japanese vendor, and overall project performance. A dual model is proposed for opposing styles of knowledge management: The first type is a constricting, funnel model, with early variety reduction and tight, staged control. This model fits a traditional Taylorist paradigm for division of labor and control of knowledge. The second type is a more chaotic fermentation vat model, characterized by continuous idea generation, tolerance for ambiguity, and emergent specification of details. These extremes (or Weberian ideal types) anchor the ends of a continuum of actual practice. The field data show the relevance of the dual model for conceptualizing a field of possibility against which a shift in the practical approach to managing knowledge resources occurs during the course of the project.<>