Automated analysis of ergonomic measures in discrete control systems

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2015.48050

Keywords:

ergonomics, human operator, workplace, labor severity, activity algorithm, accuracy, timeliness

Abstract

The information technology for evaluation of working conditions in the human operator workplace and selection of a rational set of measures for the ergonomic quality assurance system was developed. The need for developments is caused by the increasing complexity of human activities in automated systems and low motivation of practicing managers in the system-ergonomic research. It was found that estimating the working environment factors in the workplace allows to quickly obtain integrated estimates of labor severity and reasonably recommend the ways to improve the economic efficiency of production. It is shown that taking into account the influence of the working environment factors can be accomplished by using correction factors for the initial data on the time and accuracy of certain operations. Using the technology of automatic reduction of the functional network, corresponding to the human operator activity algorithm allows to quickly obtain the necessary economic estimates of options to improve working conditions. Developments are useful to form decision support systems of managers or practicing ergonomists and provide a significant improvement of working conditions, operators' motivation and economic efficiency of production by increasing the accuracy and timeliness of the operating personnel activity algorithms.

Author Biographies

Евгений Анатольевич Лавров, Sumy State University 2 Rimsky-Korsakov str., Sumy, Ukraine, 40007

Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences

Department of Computer Science

Надежда Борисовна Пасько, Sumy national agrarian University 160 Gerasim Kondratyev str., Sumy, Ukraine, 40021

Senior Lecturer

Cybernetics and Informatics Department

Анна Сергеевна Криводуб, Sumy State University 2 Rimsky-Korsakov str., Sumy, Ukraine, 40007

Postgraduate student

Department of Computer Science

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2015-08-22

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Лавров, Е. А., Пасько, Н. Б., & Криводуб, А. С. (2015). Automated analysis of ergonomic measures in discrete control systems. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 4(3(76), 16–22. https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2015.48050

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Vol. 4 No. 3(76) (2015): Control processes

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Control processes

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