title: Information processing in assembly tasks--a case study.
abstract: In a surface wiring task the terminals of electrical components are connected by wires according to a wiring list. This series of experiments examined one such task in a batch assembly environment where production runs are short. The findings show that information theory is a good predictor of performance, that different sources of information within the task are processed in different ways, and that considerable symmetric transfer can be expected between different batches.
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Bishu
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Drury