Objective
Supported by latest multimedia technology and problem oriented symbolic, standard production and test plans can to be modified and adapted for use by intellectually disabled people.
Existing PPC, CAP and working plan systems are clearly aimed at planning aspects and do not contain the activities to be carried out sequence. For that reason, sequences and auxiliary means are identified in such systems by intelligible number systems, or as a global description of several single activities (e.g. contour milling after design). These kinds of descriptions are not appropriate for intellectually disabled people, who need a more graphical way of description of the production process, sequences and auxiliary means, because most of them can not read or write. Using generic symbol sets for procedure steps, activities, tools and auxiliary means, it is intended to build up a symbolism, which will be used by the trainers to describe the work quickly and easily and in a manner appropriate to the needs and possibilities of intellectually disabled people. Symbols should easily be identified and associated with the corresponding activities. After a transformation of the symbols by more realistic ones (e.g. scanned pictures of the objects), the intellectually disabled people who are qualified for the production activities can be trained by using coloured pictures, photographs and video sequences.
Technical Approach : For information retrieval, access methods have to be defined, which do not use textual input, but associative methods in a graphical manner, supported by the hardware of the graphical interaction system. Inputs can be given by selecting graphical symbols or objects with lightpen, touch-screen or specialised input (function-) keys. These methods for information access must be evaluated during the project together with people with disabled, specialists and software engineers.
Impact and Expected Results : The main impact is that the operational areas of intellectually impaired workers are expanded. The results can be applied in workshops for disabled persons, but also in companies that employ a small number of disabled people.
In addition the instruction time for the introduction of new products is shortened considerably. The results include greater flexibility, shorter reply-times and a wider product range in workshops for disabled persons, such that they can become a reliable and more effective supplier to other manufacturing enterprises (e.g. automotive industry). The documentation of production process sequences can feed forward to the ISO-9000-certification.
The instruments and procedures developed within the framework of the project are transformed into a prototype, which is tested and validated by the project partners and can be extended to a marketable product. The new forms of working plans and test plans using multimedia can stimulate the software market for planning systems. There is the possibility to participate in standardisation of representation-forms or procedures of working plans and test plans, which are in line with the European and international standards in the area of enterprise modelling.
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Germany