Informatization and Computerization of Production Engineering in the Federal Republic of Germany, since 1945

该项目旨在调查自1945年以来西德的生产工程。它将侧重于研究和概念的信息化和计算机化的工业生产和未来的全自动化工厂。它将有助于工程科学的历史。直到现在，它的战后历史在很大程度上被忽视了。该项目将仔细研究自1945年以来工程科学所经历的显着变化。生产工程的发展表明，计算机技术的部署对该学科的总体方向产生了重大影响。此外，生产工程与工业工作具有高度相关性。基于计算机的技术、生产方法、劳动组织，简而言之，战后工厂的社会技术制度，如果没有生产工程的影响和纠缠，就很难理解。然而，本项目的目的不是调查工业工作本身，而是通过各自的研究工作的透镜进行观察。当然，本项目的目的不是撰写一部内在的工程科学史。相反，它将分析工业，政治和社会需求，期望以及阻力如何塑造研究，以及生产工程师如何分别试图影响政治决策和社会辩论。此外，西德的发展将处于国际趋势和网络之中。最后，该项目将有助于知识生产的历史，并借鉴知识路径的想法，这是一个遵循路径依赖概念的概念。

The project aims at investigating West-German production engineering since 1945. It will focus on research into and concepts of informatization and computerization of industrial production and the fully automated factory of the future. It will contribute to the history of engineering sciences. Until now its postwar history has been largely overlooked.The project will scrutinize the remarkable changes engineering sciences experienced since 1945. The development of production engineering shows, that the deployment of computer technology had significant effects on the discipline`s general orientation. Furthermore, production engineering has high relevance for industrial work. Computer based technologies, production methods, the organization of labor, in short, the socio-technical regime of the postwar factory, can hardly be understood without the impact of and entanglement with production engineering. However, the project does not aim at investigating industrial work itself, but will look through the lens of respective research efforts.The project does, of course, not aim at writing an internalistic history of engineering sciences. Instead it will analyze how industrial, political and societal demands, expectations but also resistances shaped research, and how production engineers tried to influence political decisions and societal debates, respectively. In addition, West-German developments will be situated within international trends and networks. Finally, the project will contribute to the history of knowledge production and draw on the idea of knowledge paths, a concept that follows the notion of path dependency.