Objective The focus of this project is to provide a set of software tools to design and evaluate a human centred work system for a proposed product.It does this in three ways: it integrates several stages of planning so that they can be carried out concurrently with product design, it provides software tools to evaluate the ergonomics, safety and health aspects of the design of the work system when it exists only in virtual form on the computer, it integrates some Industrial Engineering tools to evaluate the productivity of the proposed system.Existing procedures for pre-production planning are time consuming and error prone, may require several iterations, including modification to the product design, and, in many cases, the appropriate information is not easily available. The work needs to be done much more quickly and give workstations that are of better quality. The proposed software will be easy to use, modular, suitable for use by companies of all sizes (including SMEs) and sufficiently open for it to be relatively straightforward to link other software to it. It will provide a holistic view of the process and will enable non specialists to choose the most appropriate manufacturing configurations for the workers. Novel features are the integration of the Industrial Engineering evaluations with the ergonomics, safety and health evaluations, and the ability to simulate the work system dynamically. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitysocial sciencespsychologyergonomics Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0105 - Human and organizational factors within production systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator N/A Address See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AB Ph. Nderman & Co. Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address 2,sydhamnsgatan 252 28 Helsingborg See on map Braun Ireland Ltd. Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Dublin road 41 Carlow See on map Daimler-Benz AG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 1,mercedesstrasse 28309 Bremen See on map Delta Industrie Informatik GmbH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 2,schaflandstrasse 70736 Fellbach See on map Delta Regis Ltd. United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address HP1 2RN Hemel hempstead See on map UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Schroedinger building 61 Limerick See on map University of Nottingham United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address University park NG7 2RD Nottingham See on map
