International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing最新文献

{"title":"Preventive maintenance of advanced manufacturing systems: A laboratory experiment and its implications for the human‐centered approach","authors":"D. Gude, K. Schmidt","doi":"10.1002/HFM.4530030403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/HFM.4530030403","url":null,"abstract":"Due to rising demands for flexibility in the manufacturing process, there is a strong need to reorganize the task spectrum of the shop-floor staff by integrating, e.g., preventive maintenance functions. In this human-centered approach the shop-floor staff requires support in performing these additional functions. Here, based on an empirical investigation of the knowledge requirements in preventive maintenance of a simulated manufacturing system, a new support method called Behavior-Outcome Feedback is proposed. This method has been developed primarily to promote the execution of preventive maintenance tasks, but may be adopted easily to other functions as well.","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"4 1","pages":"335-350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91047216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Survey of robot safety in industry","authors":"R. A. Hirschfeld,&nbsp;F. Aghazadeh,&nbsp;R. C. Chapleski","doi":"10.1002/hfm.4530030405","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hfm.4530030405","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A questionnaire was mailed to 55 industrial robot users in the United States to determine what safety measures were used in the field. Nineteen companies using a total of over 580 robots responded to the survey. The questionnaire investigated types of robots, types of safety devices, optimal work range, ability to enclose, and response to error condition. Only 20% of robots were found to be completely enclosed, while 60% had a limited barrier or no barrier. Active safety measures such as light curtains and floor mats were found to be the most widely used safety devices at 67% and 59%, respectively. In addition, industrial users demonstrated poor conformance to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and to the American National Standards Institute/Robot Industries Association (ANSI/RIA) standards.</p>","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"3 4","pages":"369-379"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hfm.4530030405","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91420848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cellular manufacturing: Some human resource implications","authors":"John Bratton","doi":"10.1002/hfm.4530030406","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hfm.4530030406","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article considers some of the human resource management implications of the Japanese manufacturing system. The paper draws on case studies undertaken in England between 1985 and 1988. The paper presents a framework for analyzing the effects of Japanese methods. It is found that the Japanese system resulted in an enhancement of manual engineering skills. Further, it is argued that Japanese practices can coexist alongside traditional industrial relations systems, but because of uncertainty and high dependency on constituents, new organizational control configurations need to be developed.</p>","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"3 4","pages":"381-399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hfm.4530030406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84393530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Implementation of CIM technology: The key role of organizational learning","authors":"David Lei,&nbsp;Joel D. Goldhar","doi":"10.1002/hfm.4530030302","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hfm.4530030302","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article develops a conceptual model by which to examine the relationship between effective implementation of CIM technology with different levels and characteristics of organizational learning. Although a large number of firms have invested enormous sums into CIM and other advanced manufacturing technologies recently, many have not been able to garner the full potential of these investments to produce high variety at low cost. This article contends that successful implementation and utilization of CIM require a commensurate organizational commitment to instill double-loop learning in which experimentation, risk-taking, and an open-systems perspective become the basis for redesigning organizational structures, reward systems, and human resource practices. Firms that are locked into patterns of single-loop learning in which organizational change is resisted face the greatest difficulties in making the transition from traditional to advanced manufacturing technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"3 3","pages":"217-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hfm.4530030302","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87166831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mattila Markku and Waldemar Karwowski, Editors, Computer Applications in Ergonomics, Occupational Safety and Health. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1992, 514 pp.","authors":"Yeong G. Kwon","doi":"10.1002/hfm.4530030309","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hfm.4530030309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"3 3","pages":"309-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hfm.4530030309","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84963674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integral organizational innovation in the dutch clothing industry: The myth of new production systems","authors":"Marc H. H. Peeters,&nbsp;Frank D. Pot","doi":"10.1002/hfm.4530030306","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hfm.4530030306","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the clothing industry a discussion is going on about how to react to changing demands and wishes on the different markets. On the basis of a still on-going research project in the Netherlands this article describes how these changes can be taken into account in the technical and organizational architecture of the sewing room. Special attention is paid to three new production systems, namely (1) the Toyota Sewing System, (2) the Quick Response System, and (3) the Multi Operations System. From case studies it seems that companies do not benefit directly from the mentioned production systems. The solution can rather be found in new ways of production, that is, by making changes in both the production and the work organization. The nature of production and work organization has to be considered first before committing the organization to a technical choice of equipment.</p>","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"3 3","pages":"275-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hfm.4530030306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80523190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Call for participation","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/hfm.4530030310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hfm.4530030310","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"3 3","pages":"311-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hfm.4530030310","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92194687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Management of technology, corporate culture and educational paradigms: Lessons from a case study","authors":"André J. C. Manders","doi":"10.1002/hfm.4530030303","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hfm.4530030303","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses the relationship between the behavior of Research and Development management, and corporate culture and general socialization processes. It shows that, on the one hand, managerial attitudes are the product of corporate culture and socialization processes and, on the other, that management significantly contributes to their legitimation. This aspect of management behavior raises some questions. The analysis of these attitudes reveals that at least to a degree they have an economically debilitating effect. It is argued in this article that Research and Development management attitudes are a block on the road to solve a well-known management problem, namely of finding an equilibrium between stimulating individual creativity and organizing effective cooperation. In support of this proposition the results of a case study are presented in which the decision-making process about production technology at the Center for Manufacturing Technology is analyzed. The CMT is a Research and Development department of Philips Electronics Corporation in The Netherlands. First, the article elaborates the major elements of the Philips corporate culture, and the characteristics of the ruling educational paradigm at Dutch Technical Universities. With regard to the Philips culture the following factors are dealt with: the historical background of the Research and Development department and the related ambiguity of its position, the autonomy of the researcher, the industrial background of the R&amp;D manager, the impact of personal commitment for successful research, skepticism about the quality of the intermediate goods supplied by the company, and disciplinary chauvinism. In addition attention is given to the “frame of existing solutions” (Sinclair), the close relationship between university and industry and the emphasis on “personal achievement” which are characteristic of the mainstream educational paradigm at Dutch technical universities. Second, the management behavior of the Philips Center for Manufacturing Technology department is described from the point of view of corporate culture to illustrate how the attitudes of CMT management contribute to the corporate culture in the enterprise and to the dominating technological paradigm, and how these attitudes detract from successful Research and Development activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"3 3","pages":"231-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hfm.4530030303","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84535649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An approach for determining suitability of knowledge-based systems in the workplace","authors":"Richard J. Koubek,&nbsp;Jay A. Horn,&nbsp;Anthony J. Cacioppo,&nbsp;Chandler Phillips","doi":"10.1002/hfm.4530030305","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hfm.4530030305","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To expand worker capabilities, knowledge-based systems (KBS) have been introduced to aid the decision-making activities performed by shop floor personnel. With this introduction, increased concern has been expressed regarding effective and efficient utilization of resources when applying KBS technology. This article describes the development and testing of a theoretically based methodology to identify task domains where KBS technology will yield the highest gains in performance. Results indicate the described technique is capable of discriminating between application domains regarding their suitability for KBS implementation. The utility and reliability of this instrument are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"3 3","pages":"253-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hfm.4530030305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91434809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning and forgetting industrial skills: An experimental model","authors":"Professor Avraham Shtub,&nbsp;Nissan Levin,&nbsp;Shlomo Globerson","doi":"10.1002/hfm.4530030307","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hfm.4530030307","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Traditional learning curve models disregard the impact of break periods between consecutive repetitions. Since such breaks generate forgetting, when they do occur, actual performance is inferior to performance forecasted by a typical learning curve model. This study has two major objectives: (1) to test two hypotheses regarding learning and forgetting in the automated factory, proposed for a traditional industrial setting by Bailey (1989); (a) Forgetting is a function of the amount of learning prior to the interruption and the elapsed time of the interruption and (b) relearning rate is a function of the original learning rate. (2) to identify a proper forgetting model and estimate its parameters so that it may be compared to existing learning-forgetting models. The results of this study confirmed that Bailey's hypotheses are valid in a high tech manufacturing environment where computers are used for the control of machines, material handling systems and inspection equipment. Based on these hypotheses a power learning-forgetting model was found to be the preferred model to depicting the relationship between the break length and the degree of forgetting.</p>","PeriodicalId":100698,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing","volume":"3 3","pages":"293-305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/hfm.4530030307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76522153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}