The Usage of Simulation Technology for Macroergonomic Industrial Systems Improvement
The paper presents progress and results of the project, which was performed for the particular macroergonomic system. The goal of the project is the analysis of the buses’ production process capability after the assembly hall expansion. The project includ
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Abstract The paper presents progress and results of the project, which was performed for the particular macroergonomic system. The goal of the project is the analysis of the buses’ production process capability after the assembly hall expansion. The project includes the reengineering of the macroergonomic industrial system model for the new work organization, visualization and verification. Furthermore, the evaluation of workstations and configuration of human working teams, which supports particular workstations were described. The performed activities enabled describing imperfections of created concept as well as for proposing some improvements. On the one hand, this allowed for the human working teams to accept the manufacturing enterprises’ identity and on the other hand for minimizing the costs of assembly process. Keyword Macroergonomics
Simulation technology Reengineering
1 Introduction There are many various reasons for the improvement of industrial manufacturing systems. One group of reasons is connected with market, economy, finance and technology factors. The other group represents a wide range of macroergonomic conditions, i.e. factors resulting from the connection between the human factor and technical devices, material and organization work environment, necessity of the human working teams enterprises’ identity. In practice both groups of prerequisites combine into one characteristic. The contemporary theories describing the functioning of manufacturing system introduce new elements, which may have impact on activity of such systems, so that the range of interest becomes wider. They also L. Pacholski (&) P. Pawlewski Poznan University of Technology, Ul.Strzelecka 11, 60-965 Poznan, Poland e-mail: [email protected] P. Pawlewski e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 R.H.M. Goossens (ed.), Advances in Social & Occupational Ergonomics, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 487, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41688-5_1
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focus more on problems connected with the human factor. Thus, we observe a growth of the rank of macroergonomic prerequisites in theoretical deliberations, as well as in practical solutions concerning functioning of industrial organizations. A system approach, which dominates in scientific and practical descriptions of different aspects of economic activity, also affects the character of connections between elements of functioning of particular enterprises. Macrogonomics is a science, which studies a multi-objective manufacturing system, which organizational structure and relations directly depend from external environment of defined system [1, 2, 3]. A macroergonomic system is defined as a human-centric oriented socio-technical system. Authors of this elaboration present an opinion that industrial systems improvement obviously concerns systems as defined above. Macroergonomic, human-centric and process approach should certainly guarantee fulfilling goals of the technological and human fac
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