Group Technology-Based Improvements In Danish Industry

Group Technology (GT) has played an important role in realizing significant improvements in Danish industrial enterprises for more than 25 years. The main focus of GT implementation has been on the formation of production groups as a means for simplifying production flows and management tasks. Marked improvements have been achieved in terms of reduction of throughput times, often to less than one-fifth, productivity improvements, often by a factor of two, better quality, and improved worker motivation and participation.