Human errors play a remarkable role in sheet metal industry

Abstract

In many manufacturing companies an appreciable portion of profit within reach is wasted due to poor quality of design and workmanship. This paper concentrates to the origins of production errors in the production flow of sheet metal based constructions. This study is based on a field study carried out in three Finnish case factories and the conclusion is, that workforce and work organization re-lated human activity based errors cause most of the studied production errors.