Estrangement and unification (variety control) in Software Industry
In the
military arsenals of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Sweden there were
two processes initiated in the 19-th
century. From the point of view of industrial production technologies they were
revolutionary processes - estrangement and unification.
Estrangement
is drawing of products, the components of products and technological operations
and techniques on the drawing paper. This process was a system - everything
that had to do with the product and its manufacture was described, depicted and
recorded on paper. The product and its manufacturing were estranged from the
consciousness of the craftsman and became the property of the industrial
enterprise (armoury).
Unification
is the elimination of unnecessary variety of products, their components and
manufacturing methods.
The results
of these two processes are products, technologies and components. Everything
was fixed on paper. Later the experience of estrangement and unification became
a prerequisite for the creation of the assembly line by Ford. The implementation
of the assembly line led to the reduction of expenses, manufacturing time and
the cost of the production.
The theory
of the decomposition schemes initiated the processes of estrangement and
unification in the Software Industry. The theory allows to systemize the
algorithms. This theory allows to generate automatically the algorithms of practically
any complexity.
No comments:
Post a Comment