ABSTRACT
Meeting the needs of the manufacturing and service sectors of contemporary industry, this volume is concerned with the human factors, ergonomics, and safety issues related to the design of products, processes, and systems, as well as the operation and management of business enterprises. This book will be of special value to researchers and practitioners involved in the design of products, processes, systems, and services, which are marketed and utilized by a variety of organizations around the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|149 pages
Human Oriented Organization
chapter Chapter 1|10 pages
Organizational Innovations and Knowledge Based Enterprises. Theoretical Postulates and Empirical Issues
chapter Chapter 3|10 pages
Workforce Diversity and Ergonomic Challenges for Sustainable Manufacturing Organizations
chapter Chapter 4|8 pages
Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries - Resolving the Polylemma of Production
chapter Chapter 8|9 pages
The Role of Ergonomic Factors in the Modeling of Project Management Organization
chapter Chapter 10|12 pages
Age-appropriate Workplace Engineering with the Aid of Cardboard Engineering
chapter Chapter 15|9 pages
Learning and Forgetting in Production-inventory Systems with Perishable Seasonal Items
section Section II|100 pages
Work Study — Improving the Skills, Quality and Effectiveness
chapter Chapter 16|7 pages
Influence at Years of Experience on Operation Concerning Kyoto Style Earthen Wall
chapter Chapter 17|8 pages
Comparison of Painting Technique of Urushi Products between Expert and Non-expert
chapter Chapter 18|10 pages
Subjective Evaluation of Kyo-Yuzen-dyed Fabrics with Different Material in Putting-past (Nori-oki) Process
chapter Chapter 20|8 pages
Subjective Evaluation for Beauty of Texture on Metal Surface with Chasing Operation
chapter Chapter 21|10 pages
Analysis of “kyo-Gashi” Techniques and Skills for Japanese Sweets Experts
chapter Chapter 23|10 pages
Highly Cultured Brush Manufactured by Traditional Brush Mixing Technique “KEMOMI”
chapter Chapter 24|11 pages
Virtual Agent Assistance for Maintenance Tasks in IPS2 – First Results of a Study
section Section III|146 pages
Human Factors in Work Systems
chapter Chapter 28|9 pages
The Effect of Anthropomorphic Movements of Assembly Robots on Human prediction
chapter Chapter 33|10 pages
Cooperative Disassembly of Human and Robot Using an Augmented Vision System
chapter Chapter 34|6 pages
Artificial Intelligence in Optimizing Environmental Factors towards Human performance
chapter Chapter 35|8 pages
Perceptions of Traffic Enforcers on Road Traffic Noise and Its Potential Non-Auditory Effects
chapter Chapter 36|10 pages
Temporal Strategy and Performance during a Short-cycle Fatiguing Repetitive Task
chapter Chapter 39|10 pages
Real-time Measuring System of Eye-gaze Location and Writing Pressure in Calligraphy
chapter Chapter 42|8 pages
A Case Study of Participatory Ergonomics in the Quality Assessment of a Drilling “Dog House”
section Section IV|121 pages
Toward an Ergonomic Product
