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The use of kitting to ease assemblers' cognitive workload
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-28, 10:56 authored by Anna Brolin, Gunnar Backstrand, Dan Hogberg, Keith CaseThe higher level of product variation in the automotive industry leads to an increasing workload for the assembler that has to search, fetch and assemble all the variants. This puts high demands on the information that is given to the assembler to fulfil the assembly task. This paper describes the impact of information overload and sources, and their influence on the assembler. Through observations conducted in the Swedish automotive industry, the study has shown that the assembly personnel perceive the kit as structured information and that structured kits are able to present distinct information at a certain place to the assembler, which in turn reduces the searching, resulting in decreased cognitive workload.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Forty-third Annual Nordic Ergonomics Society Conference 'Wellbeing and Innovations through Ergonomics', the Proceedings of the Forty-third Annual Nordic Ergonomics Society Conference, NES 2011Pages
77 - 82Citation
BROLIN, A. ... et al, 2011. The use of kitting to ease assemblers' cognitive workload. IN: Lindfors, J., Savolainen, M. and Vayrynen, S. (eds). Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Nordic Ergonomics Society Conference, NES 2011, Oulu, Finland, 18-21 September 2011, pp.77-82.Publisher
University of OuluVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2011Notes
This conference paper is closed access.ISBN
9789514295416Language
- en