THE EMERGENCE OF AGED SOCIETY AND WORK REORGANIZATION AT A PLANT

老龄化社会使得利用老年和女性工人成为必要，因此，许多工厂正在进行人体工程学和舒适性改进以及工作重组等实验。在这方面，我调查了日本汽车和电子工业的许多工厂。我还调查了沃尔沃的Uddevalla工厂，以获得参考点，这是世界上第一次废除装配线制度。在日本的汽车工业中，有两家工厂，本田高沢和池田大发已经废除了带式输送机，但仍然保留了自己的装配线系统。另一方面，丰田的一些工厂仍然保留着带式输送机，但重新考虑了装配线上的碎片化分工，并引入了完整的过程，这意味着他们试图恢复工作本身功能上有意义的内容。在电子工业中，许多工厂采用所谓的单元生产，这意味着他们取消了带式输送机，使每个工人的工作扩大。

Aged society makes it necessary to utilize aged and female workers Because of this many experimentations such as ergonomic and amenity improvements and work reorganization are now realized in various plants. In this regard I investigated lot of plants in auto and electronic industries in Japan. I also investigated Uddevalla plant of Volvo for the purpose of getting the reference point, which abolished assembly line system for the first time all over world.In Japanese auto industry, there are two plants, Honda Takanezawa and Daihatsu Ikeda which already abolish a belt conveyer, but still keep an assembly line system itself in one hand. There are some plants of Toyota on the other hand, which still maintain a belt conveyer, but reconsider fragmented division of labor on an assembly line and introduce Complete Process, which means that they try to recover functionally meaningful content in work itself.In electronic industry many plants introduce so called Cell Production, which means that they abolish a belt conveyer and make each worker's job enlarged.