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Process Oriented Ergonomics - The Ergonomics of the Future? A Case Study of Integrated Ergonomics at an Engine Assembly Plant

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Summary, in English

Ergonomics are, in most cases, focusing on the human being when evaluating assembly system designs. This results in the human performance being expressed isolated from the technical environment. On the other hand, technicians are prone to concentrate on the hardware. These conditions underline the need to pursue a more integrated evaluation and design procedure in order to avoid the drawbacks of these traditional approaches. In this paper, the authors propose an alternative approach, i.e. process oriented ergonomics, which might be a constructive way of tackling some of the more complex aspects of the man-machine interaction in industrial environments such as assembly of engines.

Publishing year

2000

Language

English

Pages

5-331

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the IEA 2000/HFES 2000 Congress

Volume

5

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Keywords

  • ergonomics
  • assembly
  • postures
  • work load
  • RULA
  • OWAS
  • assembly system design

Conference name

The 14th World Congress on Ergonomics

Conference date

2000-07-30 - 2000-08-04

Conference place

San Diego, United States

Status

Published