A CONCEPTUAL-MODEL FOR DISRUPTION CAUSES - A PERSONNEL AND ORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVE

Considering that more and more western companies are working in the JI T-philosophy with smaller and smaller buffer stocks it is important to increase the knowledge of how disruptions arise in manufacturing syst ems. This paper describes as investigation of disruptions (downtime, r ejects, speed losses) at 12 different Swedish manufacturing systems. W ith the help of a model which we have developed, the underlying causes of different disruptions have been mapped for the investigated manufa cturing systems. The special conditions found in Sweden during the las t years have motivated us to include factors outside the company in th e developed disruption model.