Human-Centered Production Systems: design and management

汽车工业生产系统的设计和运行管理存在两个问题。第一个问题是在系统设计阶段没有考虑重复性动作对人体的伤害；一般来说，这里也没有人为因素。第二个问题是设计和运营管理没有很好地结合起来；工厂的信息流仍有改进的余地。拟议的研究旨在解决这些问题。本研究有三个具体目标：(1)开发一个软件系统来表示和模拟整个装配线的装配质量、成本、时间和工伤；(2)制定工伤成本预测方法；(3)在考虑工伤的情况下，建立以最低成本为目标的生产装配系统优化设计和运行管理模型。开展这项研究的一般方法是合作，特别是与包括大学研究人员和工业合作伙伴以及工程设计和制造研究人员和卫生经济学研究人员在内的团队合作。

Production systems design and operation management in automobile industry have two problems. The first problem is that the human work injury due to repetitive movements is not considered at the system design phase; as well in general human factors are absent there. The second problem is that design and operation management are not well integrated; there are still rooms to improve the information flow in the plant. The proposed research aims to address these problems. There are three specific objectives in this research: (1) Develop a software system to represent and simulate the whole assembly line with regard to assembly quality, cost, time and work injury; (2) Develop a methodology for predicting the cost due to work injuries; (3) Develop a model for optimizing the design and operation management of the production assembly system for the minimum cost with consideration of work injuries. The general approach to carry out this research is a collaborative one - in particular with the team including university researcher and the industrial partner and engineering design and manufacturing researcher and health economics researcher.