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Automation on the Shopfloor: Machinists

In: Beyond Taylorism

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  • Lorraine Giordano

    (University of California)

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Machining has been described as ‘part science and part magic’.1 It is a craft not easily understood by strangers to the occupation and not easily described by those who practice it. The machine shop at UFC’s Pine Hill plant is a complete floor of conventional machines which, at first glance, look like huge abstract industrial art pieces with levers, spindles and handles extending from their frames. The larger, numerical control machines are in a room separate from the rest of the machine shop and resemble conveyors of different sized and shaped tools which, on command from a computerized program, spin around, choose the correct tool and carry out drilling and milling processes. There are a few smaller and much quieter machines — whose trade name is Hurco. They are the most advanced CNC equipment UFC has purchased. The men operating them appear to be somewhat more relaxed than those who work in the NC room — although just as alert.

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  • Lorraine Giordano, 1992. "Automation on the Shopfloor: Machinists," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Beyond Taylorism, chapter 4, pages 35-65, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22235-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22235-3_4
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