Title
Organisational Design and the (dis)Integration of Human Factors in Production System Development
Document Type
Conference Presentation
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
This paper describes and generalises experiences from two cases of production system development in the Swedish context. We have observed the successful application of ergonomics to be related to the lack of coordination of human factors across groups responsible for different stages of the production system design process. This problem is magnified by the tendency for ‘ergonomics’ to be the responsibility of Human Resources departments who are distanced from they design process, rather than engineering teams directly engaged in design. Available tools to improve the integration of ergonomics considerations into the design process are briefly presented and discussed.
Recommended Citation
Neumann, W.P. and Winkel, J. (2005) Organisational design and the (dis)integration of human factors in production system development. 10th International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing: Agility and Hybrid Automation - HAAMAHA 2005, San Diego, USA
Comments
For a more in-depth look on this subject, please see: Neumann, W.P., Winkel, J. (2006) Who is Responsible for Human Factors in Engineering Design? The Case of Volvo Powertrain. Third CDEN/RCCI International Design Conference on Education, Innovation, and Practice in Engineering Design, Toronto, CDN, July 24-26 pp. 82-88 Neumann, W.P., Ekman, M. and Winkel, J., 2009. Integrating ergonomics into system development - The Volvo Powertrain Case. Applied Ergonomics, 40(3): 527-537. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2008.09.010