Recently added articles from Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management:
From art to science in manufacturing: the evolution of technological knowledge.(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2005; Bohn, Roger E. ... Abstract Making goods evolved over several centuries from craft production to complex and highly automated manufacturing processes. A companion paper by R. Jaikumar documents the transformation of firearms manufacture through six distinct epochs, each accompanied by radical ...
1 Introduction.
Aug 01, 2005; Bohn, Roger E. ... Since the first Industrial Revolution, technology has steadily transformed living standards and daily life. The aggregate effects of new technology--rising productivity and improving product performance--are visible effects of from new knowledge of "how to do things." But what is the ...
2 Evolution of knowledge in a world of increasing mechanization.
Aug 01, 2005; Bohn, Roger E. ... Machine tools, invented circa 1800, brought mechanical power and control to metal shaping. During the first three epochs of manufacturing, from 1800 to the early 20th century, the precision of these machines was progressively increased, mainly by mechanical means that constrained the ...
3 Knowledge in a dynamic world.
Aug 01, 2005; Bohn, Roger E. ... The treatment of knowledge changed fundamentally in the dynamic world that followed WW II. Problem solving and learning, which entailed the development of new knowledge, had to become organic to the production process. Finding a single optimum production method was replaced by change as ...
4 From art to science.
Aug 01, 2005; Bohn, Roger E. ... How should we characterize the evolution of manufacturing in the light of this examination of firearms over the course of two centuries? As Jaikumar showed, the central problem throughout the development of manufacturing has been achieving adequate process control. Once society moved ...
References.
Aug 01, 2005; Bohn, Roger E. ... [1] H. G. J. Aitken, Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal; scientific management in action, 1908-1915, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1960. [2] Maryam Alavi and Dorothy E. Leidner, "Review: Knowledge management and knowledge management systems: Conceptual foundations and ...
