Ergonomic Requirements of Work Systems

Human-robot cooperation in future production systems: Analysis of requirements for designing an ergonomic work system

Both humans and robots have crucial advantages regarding industrial assembly processes. While robots ace at repetitive and monotonous assembly steps, humansare able to adapt flexibly to new situations and upcoming problems. Combining these advantages by means of direct human-robot cooperation seems to be interesting for producing companies but has not been realized yet. While the corresponding ...

Requirements Analysis for Distributed Cooperative Work Systems

A requirements space for group-work systems

Design and evaluation of systems is facilitated by a comprehensive understanding of requirements. The space within which requirements for group-work systems are considered is often limited to negotiated forms of work organisation. This fails to capture requirements for group-work in which organisation is imposed, not negotiated. In this paper, we develop the requirements space for group-working...

Ergonomic Characterization of Harvesting Work in Karelia

Nacrtak A comparison of the ergonomic performance of 13 harvesting machine models was assessed from an ergonomic viewpoint. The main objective of the study was to compare ergonomic performance to harvesting machine operators’ work and propose viable solutions to improve the work environment. The principal assessed ergonomic requirements were operators’ workspace, operators’ seats, visibility, w...

Ergonomic Work Allowance (EWA) for cyclical industrial work