Industrialization as instrumentalization

The industry has learned a few lessons from its inability to maintain a strictly technical industrialization. Like the industrial world, it has nonetheless opened up to new tools for progress. All of them have the distinctive feature of being instruments for influencing the course of production. This is why the second phase of industrialization can be characterized as the instrumentalization of the procedural dimension.

The first approach was part of the quality movement. It was a very gradual process, since the so-called industrial tools had to be calibrated to the construction industry's routine activities. But after a period of learning, the evolution was joint between construction and industry towards process management.

At the same time, the transfer of IT assets has been undertaken, with certainly more limited success. Developments...