On IMS with Human Factor — From HUTOP to new field

Abstract

In the real world of production systems, researches on Human Factors should be involved at the center within the scope of several research subjects as the Science and Technology. In this paper, in order to prospect IMS (Intelligent Manufacturing System) with Human Factor (HF), we would survey the steps of the past HUTOP/IMS project and a related research activity of HF in IES (IEEE), and we discuss through the speculations of Henri Bergson how strongly HF researches be based on the Mind Science rather than Matter Science.