Business administration

The Business Administration is a branch of engineering that deals with the planning and operation of enterprises, particularly of factory farms , busy. The interaction between people, technology and organization is specifically considered.

General

In contrast to business administration (also business administration), which is a branch of economics , business administration includes not only economic issues but also technical and technological aspects. It is made up of the components of production technology or manufacturing technology , manufacturing processes , machine tools , work preparation (production planning and control), organization of the workflow, time management , business accounting and work management. Walther Moede and others also integrated the workers' psychological aspects into the research area, thereby establishing a new sub-area that was then called psychotechnology .

history

Frederick Winslow Taylor , with his main work “The principles of scientific management” from 1911 and the management concept of the same name developed in it, is considered the founder of business administration. The " Scientific Management " (German: scientific management) laid the foundation for the development of the modern concept of business administration, based on more handcraft-oriented mass production structures in the transition from manufacturing to factory work. At the technical universities of the German Reich, the science of factory operation as business administration was established as part of engineering training as early as the early 1900s.

After the first industrial revolution was largely based on the development of power machines, the design focus changed in the following revolutions towards organizational upheavals in factory operations. With FW Taylor and his then novel approaches to work organization, serious changes took place in the company organization. This second industrial revolution was based on the consideration of factory operations under aspects of the division of labor and a fundamental reorganization of the production system. The third industrial revolution began in the 1970s with the introduction of automation and information technology into companies. These changed framework conditions again required a fundamental adjustment of the production system. Business administration as a scientific discipline in factory operations has always been a key factor for innovation and successful change. The focus was on the constant increase in efficiency and productivity with less and less waste and the optimal integration of human labor when using technological potential. An example of this are the principles of lean manufacturing described by Taiichi Ohno. With the fourth industrial revolution already underway, the so-called Industry 4.0 , new potentials and challenges arise from the point of view of business administration.

Areas of responsibility

Business administration comprises a number of components that are necessary for factory operation.

• Production technology with the sub-areas of production technology or production processes and machine tools
• Factory planning
• Work preparation with the sub-areas work planning / production planning and work control / production control
• Production planning and control (PPS)
• Work design
• Time management
• Business accounting
• Digitization and Industry 4.0

Organizations and associations

Scientific Society for Production Technology (WGP)

See also

• Business Administration - A field of economics that deals with businesses and companies.

literature

• Hans-Peter Wiendahl : Business organization for engineers . Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-41878-3 .
• Hans-Peter Wiendahl: Factory planning manual: concept, design and implementation of adaptable production facilities . Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-43892-7 .
• Hans-Jörg Bullinger , Dieter Spath , Hans-Jürgen Warnecke , Engelbert Westkämper (eds.): Handbook of company organization: strategies, planning, implementation . Springer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-72136-9 .
• Frank-Lothar Krause, Eckart Uhlmann (Hrsg.): Innovative production technology . Hanser, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-446-21062-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Spur : On the change in the industrial world through machine tools , Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-446-16242-9 , pp. 424f, 428.
2. ↑ Frederick Winslow Taylor: The principles of scientific management . Cosimo, New York 2006, ISBN 1-59605-889-7 .
3. ↑ Günter Spur, Ruth Federspiel: Production Research in Germany 1933-1945 . Hanser, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-446-22696-8 .
4. ^ JP Womack, DT Jones, D. Roos: The machine that changed the world . HarperPerennial, New York 1991, ISBN 0-06-097417-6 .
5. ↑ Gunther Reinhart: Handbook Industry 4.0: Business Models, Processes, Technology . Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-44642-7 .