General Methodology for Smoothing the Introduction of AMT

Most of the organizations investigated in this study had some experience of computerized equipment and were interested in acquiring more. Some of these organizations were recognized as brand leaders, with excellent reputations in applying high technology. Even so, only a few companies were obtaining the full benefits of AMT as measured by such parameters as programmed unmanned running. The reasons for this were many, but more often than not amounted to organizational faults. With hindsight, these were inexplicable, because it is likely that all these organizations would recognize the stages outlined in Fig. 12.1 as those comprising a general methodology for smoothing the successful introduction of AMT. However, no organization would necessarily accept the reasons why it had failed to adopt the methodology completely.