Beata Mrugalska

Poznań University of Technology · Faculty of Engineering Management

In: Constantine Stephanidis & Margherita Antona (eds.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and Accessibility Practice. 8th International Conference, UAHCI 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 22-27 June 2014, Proceedings, Part IV, LNCS 8516: 237-245. In order to obtain high performance...

This study investigates if transformational leadership, green human resource management (GHRM) and employees’ intrinsic motivation are all crucial for employee engagement in GHRM initiatives. It adopts a quantitative approach and a cross-sectional survey which was conducted among 325 permanent faculty members of public and private sector universiti...

Due to the rising awareness about the environment and intense competition, more and more firms have started to promote sustainable performance to survive in the market. The increasing trends in environmental green practices have become vital and effective among non-profit organizations, practitioners, researchers, and industrialists. The study aims...

The study of cellular structures and their properties represents big potential for their future applications in real practice. The article aims to study the effect of input parameters on the quality and manufacturability of cellular samples 3D-printed from Nylon 12 CF in synergy with testing their bending behavior. Three types of structures (Schwar...

Abstract This article focuses on advanced technologies and digital processes in dental implant surgery, in line with the principles of Industry 4.0. The human factors that are directly present in dentistry are taken into account. This gives reason to pay serious attention to the application of surgical guides in practice in order to support human a...

Food business is expected to safely prepare, store, and display all the dishes they plan to sell to the public. Therefore, more and more diverse materials and articles are introduced for food contact. In order to control these practices, diverse European laws and domestic regulations were introduced in the last years. However, consumers do not alwa...

Abstract Industry 5.0 brings the human factor into direct collaboration with artificial intelligence. This synergistic relationship also has a strong presence in dental health, in the restoration of decayed teeth. Related to dentistry, the importance of the CAD systems and 3D printers also has greatly improved the production process in the dental l...

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Online stores and auctions are commonly used nowadays. It means that we buy much more on the Internet than in traditional stores. It leads to the case that during looking for the products we need to have precise categories assigned to each of them (to find only records that can be of interest for a consumer). Sometimes it is hard, users make simple...

The use of CAD/CAM in dentistry makes it possible to optimize the treatment process in case of a violation of parts of the orofacial complex. It contributes to the rationalization of the production process of the dental prosthetic structure by transferring file formats between different software programs for design, design visualization, simulation...

Today's commonly used vehicles that use petroleum and its derivatives have a negative impact on the environment and the economy. Increased CO2 emissions, global warming, and noise pollution are the results of these drawbacks. In addition, people have begun looking for alternative energy sources as a result of the rise in the cost of petroleum and t...

Background: The success of organizations' sustainable performance mainly depends on their human resource capital and for this organizations now need to focus on green human capital development programs including green talent management (GTM). GTM entails attracting, nurturing, and retaining those people who can promote the green initiatives of the...

(ICTCS-2023) Jaipur, India - 8 - 9 December Certificate, Human Factors and Use of the Surgical Guide in Dentistry - Real Practice Example Abstract This article focuses on advanced technologies and digital processes in dental implant surgery, in line with the principles of Industry 4.0. The human factors that are directly present in dentistry are ta...

While moving towards sustainable performance, organizations try to create a win-win situation not only for the organization itself but for the planet and society as well. The main aim of this study is to examine the linkage between environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR), green talent management (GTM), and organization’s sustainable pe...

Product master data are an essential and key component of purchasing processes, ensuring the smooth running of business operations within companies. Unfortunately, due to the lack of a single, complete, worldwide information system storing reference data, managing the data, maintaining its quality, reliability, and timeliness, requires building qua...

All WorldS4 2023 presented papers will be published in conference proceedings by Springer LNNS. ISSN: 2367-3370, Series*** : https://www.springer.com/series/15179Indexing Indexed by SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago. All books published in the series are submitted for consideration in Web of Science.***

All WorldS4 2023 presented papers will be published in conference proceedings by Springer LNNS. ISSN: 2367-3370, Series*** : https://www.springer.com/series/15179Indexing Indexed by SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago. All books published in the series are submitted for consideration in Web of Science.***

Emergency stair travel devices are designed to evacuate people from buildings and used duringinitial unguided spontaneous evacuations as well as by professional emergency services. Therequirements for evacuation chairs are varied: they are determined by the technical conditions ofthe building, by the specific way of operation of non-professional an...

Complete recovery of the human dental jaw is a challenge for dentists and dental technicians. The process is complex and requires proper treatment methodology, where emphasis is put on the patient, and application of modern technologies in design in terms of software and additive technologies. The biocompatible materials are also essential. The pre...

The Ergonomics and Human Factors Regional Educational CEEPUS Network (CIII-HU-1506-01-2021) was established and approved for funding in 2020 and still planned to be extended and developed. The network is the result of collaboration between nine universities with a key role in ergonomic education and research, promoting the profession of ergonomist...

SPRINGER. ORIGINAL RESEARCH. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10479-023-05235-3 The present study covers the possibilities of computer CAD (solid) design for the development of ASTM A36 Steel and DIN Steel (Alloyed) 1.6587 (18CrNi...

ICICT 2023 (8th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology in concurrent with ICT Excellence Awards, London, United Kingdom,February 20 - 23 2023. Publication : All ICICT 2023 presented papers will be published in conference proceedings by Springer LNNS. ISSN: 2367-3370, Series : https://www.springer.com/series/15179 . Index...

Smart City is recognized as a potential approach to address serious urban issues such as traffic, pollution, energy use, and waste management. Therefore, it is vital to evaluate how smart cities are in order to put these methods into practice. To offer advice on these matters, numerous reports are created, and one of which is Smart City Index (SCI)...

This paper concerns Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) which is one of lean tools applied for reduction of change over time on machines. It is a review paper on the basis of the literature collected from three electronic databases: Elsevier Science, Springer and E-resources from the library of Poznan University of Technology. The retrieved articl...

Background: Global product identification standards and methods of product data exchange are known and widespread in the traditional market. However, it turns out that the e-commerce market needs data that have not already received much attention, for which no standards have been established in relation to their content. Furthermore, their current...

BACKGROUND: In the last decades a revolution for safety industries is widely recognizable. Regulatory bodies have tried to investigate more and more how the industry can get better and learn from hazardous events. Moreover, industrial associations have increased the amount of provided best practices, and started to train and certify new standards o...

About SEMIT 2022 International Conference on Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology 2022 is a gathering of faculty members, scholars, educators, industry experts, and university students from all around the world. SEMIT 2022 aims to provide a platform to transfer information, experience, and scientific and research findings of t...

International conference on Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology (SEMIT 2022) 2-3 February 2022, Ankara, Turkey www.semit2022.refconf.com Certificate of Presentation This is to certify that the following paper is presented at International conference on Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology (SEMIT 2022) he...

Lean is currently applied successfully in many industrial sectors. However, its value and impact on human health is not fully understood. To gain a better understanding, this chapter explores how ergonomics force and fatigue evaluation methods can be applied in a manner to enhance lean initiatives. These methods incorporate ergonomic-related variab...

Technology has disrupted each current industry, and supply chain is not going to be an exception. Businesses are already starting to establish interconnected global networks of Cyber-Physical Systems with the help of the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing. In this context, the chapter will debate aspects related to the new challenges of reducin...

This paper discusses basic attributes which are entered to product data in selected e-commerce platforms. For this aim, we selected and analyzed a group of attributes such brand name, product image, net content, product classification and sale country. We also reviewed the platform developers which are commonly used in e-commerce. It allowed us to...

The modern dental eHealth system is a complex set of many applicable technological tools, applications and entire scientific fields. These include conventional computer 3D design, CAD/CAM/CAE divisions, as well as open source systems related to the modeling of dental structures, dentures, implants, crowns, bridges and more. In the same way, the app...

In December 2019, a new infectious respiratory disease called COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan, Hubei province, in China and quickly reached pandemic status in March 2020, in uncertain and frightening situation. The objective of this study was to analyze the epidemiological curves from the fight against COVID-19 in China and Italy, establishing par...

Agility is the dynamic capability of an organization which helps it to manage a change and uncertainties in the environment. The purpose of this research is to review the literature from the perspective of agility in Industry 4.0. This paper systematically reviews 381 relevant articles from peer-reviewed academic journals in the period of the last...

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of human factors research and methods fostering a better integration of technologies and humans during the whole manufacturing cycle, giving a special emphasis to the quality and safety of the industrial environment for workers, the efficiency of the manufacturing processes itself, the quality of th...

The Ergonomics and Human Factors Regional Educational CEEPUS Network was established and approved for funding as a result of collaboration between nine universities with a key role in teaching and cultivating ergonomic knowledge and the profession of ergonomist (especially in industrial and logistics systems fields). The prestigious participating u...

Industry 4.0 is perceived as an industrial concept which requires incorporation of both value-adding business divisions and value-added chain applying emerging technologies to provide digital solutions. However, there is still a lack of knowledge and understanding of this concept, especially about its implementation, project outcomes and investment...

The contemporary business environment is expected to cope with the pressures for organizing the production to go beyond developing a good product. The enterprises have to shorten product life cycles, extend product diversity and react to their production volume variance by continuous adaptation and improvement of their production processes. The pro...

This book discusses the latest advances in the broadly defined field of advanced manufacturing and process control. It reports on cutting-edge strategies for sustainable production and product life cycle management, and on a variety of people-centered issues in the design, operation and management of manufacturing systems and processes. Further, it...

This paper presents the practical implementation of 5S method, which is used to improve the quality and safety in organization. 5S, which comes from the Japanese words (translated in English: sort, set, shine, standardize and sustain), is a practice based on Lean Management system which brings many advantages to the organizations and employees. The...

The paper refers to two components of competencies such as skills and knowledge. Its investigation is directed towards showing lean value and its relation to human. Particularly, it explores lean and ergonomics in reference to the required knowledge and practice which enhance these initiatives as they are highly inter-related. For this aim, an inte...

This paper presents an approach to prediction of the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) for components of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV). The focus is paid on the batteries which are a crucial element of these systems and influence the possible operation times considerably. For batteries, two aspects are taken into consideration, if the remaining useful...

The workstation becomes comfortable environment when adopting appropriate criteria for its design and adjustment in the accomplishment of the routine tasks. Organizational and cognitive design deserves attention of entrepreneurs to avoid human error and failure. This design is based on discussions about cognitive processing, standards with risk ana...

In the paper, a new scheduling strategy for assembly systems consisting of cooperating Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) based on their remaining operational time is developed. The operational time is associated with state of charge and state of health of the AGV battery. While the latter is defined as a possible number of repetitions of a set of gi...

The paper shows the implementation maintenance plan in a production enterprise. It discusses the implementation of its particular tasks - what was implemented and what were the effects on output indicators such as availability, waste and efficiency. It presents the implemented tools in the company to support prevention policy such as yellow cards (...

This paper focuses specifically on the hardware that could be used to assist in the prevention of upper-limb musculoskeletal disorders in the working environment. It lists the types of sensors that can be used to construct application for the measurement of force excretion, posture and repetitive movements. The paper presents the criteria to evalua...

Prognostics is the process of predicting a lifetime point when a system or its component is not able to complete its proposed function. The time from the current time to the time of a failure is recognized as Remaining Useful Life (RUL). Such predictions are typically done with the application of model-based, data-driven, and hybrid-based approache...

Lean is currently applied successfully in many industrial sectors. However, its value and impact on human health is not fully understood. To gain a better understanding, this paper explores how ergonomics force and fatigue evaluation methods can be applied in a manner to enhance lean initiatives. These methods incorporate ergonomic-related variable...

Increasing expectations of industrial system reliability require development of more effective and robust fault diagnosis methods. The paper presents a framework for quality improvement on the neural model applied for fault detection purposes. In particular, the proposed approach starts with an adaptation of the modified quasi-outer-bounding algori...

The paper presents the problems of the introduction of information system management in a big industrial company located in the Wielkopolska region in Poland. The investigated system was supposed to support the flow of information between the data coming directly from the production and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The results of the investi...

The paper presents an actuator fault diagnosis and prognosis scheme for Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy system. It overcomes the drawbacks of the approaches presented in the relevant literature by taking into consideration the problem of the robustness. The proposed approach consists of an actuator fault estimator which provides knowledge about faults with the...

This book discusses the latest advances in manufacturing and process control, with a special emphasis on digital manufacturing and intelligent technologies for manufacturing and industrial processes control. The human aspect of the developed technologies and products, their interaction with the users, as well as sustainability issues, are covered i...

The paper presents the integration of “Lean Thinking” into the application of industrial ergonomics. When properly focused, ergonomics can be a powerful tool for achieving Lean objectives such as improving process efficiency, increasing productivity, and reducing quality defects. As ergonomics is applied to reduce injury risk it can simultaneously...

W artykule omówiono problematykę bezpieczeństwa transportu drogowego. Następnie przedstawiono uwarunkowania prawne czasu pracy kierowcy zawodowego. Stanowiły one podstawę teoretyczną do przeprowadzonych badań ankietowych w wybranej grupie kie-rowców zawodowych. Celem niniejszego artykułu było zobrazowane problemu manipulacji wśród zawodo-wych kiero...

The paper examines the characteristics of changes that are intentionally introduced by humans into their living environment. It shows that technical and organizational changes without taking into account human factors criteria - and thus also ergonomic criteria - are the source of many losses. Moreover, the paper contains a discussion of the sequen...

Over the last two decades there has been a growing awareness of the need to improve quality in the industrial sector. This paper presents how to implement the DMAIC cycle as an element of continuous improvement in practice. In order to achieve it, the problem of quality and quality improvement is widely discussed. Based on the recognized problem in...

This paper concerns Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) which is one of lean tools applied for reduction of change over time on machines. It is a review paper on the basis of the literature collected from three electronic databases: Elsevier Science, Springer and E-resources from library of Poznan University of Technology. The retrieved articles w...

Lean Production is widely recognized and accepted in the industrial setting. It concerns the strict integration of humans in the manufacturing process, a continuous improvement and focus on value-adding activities by avoiding waste. However, a new paradigm called Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution has recently emerged in the manufactu...

This paper presents the most often indicated problems with lean practice in industries. The research, which was carried out in a large Polish factory showed that in spite of high assessment of the level of implementation of particular lean tools, the expected effects of waste elimination did not appear. When comparing the results received from the...

The purpose of this article is to show how important it is to respect the rules of road safety related to the work of drivers and what the consequences of breaking them are. The problem of the manipulation of working time is widely discussed as it contributes to creating dangerous situations not only for operators but for other road users as well....

The paper outlines the problems of occupational health and safety in industrial environment. In order to define their determinants the investigation was conducted among 71 respondents in Poland. Its results showed the discrepancy in the perception of this concept in theory and practice. The compliance with health and safety rules and regulations wa...

Understanding variation is a crucial aspect of managing and improving any manufacturing or product development process. This paper investigates sources of variations in process control. It shows main sources of variability such as actual process variations or measurement variations. Moreover, it attempt to classify causes of variation. Based on sta...

The paper concerns fault-tolerant control of a real battery assembly system which is under a pilot implementation at RAFI GmbH Company (one of the leading electronic manufacturing service providers in Germany).The proposed framework is based on an interval analysis approach, which along with max-plus algebra, allows describing uncertain discrete ev...

Background: Wild emmer wheat could serve as a source of novel variation in grain quality and stress resistance for wheat breeding. A set of Triticum durum-T. dicoccoides chromosome substitution lines [LDN(DIC)] and the parental recipient cv. Langdon grown under contrasting water and nitrogen availability in the soil was examined in this study to i...

The paper concerns fault-tolerant control of a real battery assembly system which is under a pilot implementation at RAFI GmbH Company (one of the leading electronic manufacturing service providers in Germany).The proposed framework is based on an interval analysis approach, which along with max-plus algebra, allows describing uncertain discrete ev...

The paper deals with the problems of introduction of modern automated solutions in a big industrial company located in the Wielkopolska region in Poland. It shows the inevitable role of human factor in such systems and the effects when no enough attention is being focused on the design, installation, maintenance and other functions which are mainly...

p>Operadores humanos responden a alarmas en condiciones normales y también en situaciones inesperadas y anormales en tiempo real. El objetivo de este estudio consiste en aumentar el conocimiento de las reacciones humanas a alarmas en el ámbito laboral. Describe como los humanos pueden contribuir a accidentes y presta atención a la seguridad del pro...

Human operators are required to respond to alarms in normal conditions, and also to find solutions to unexpected situations in real time. The aim of this study is to increase the knowledge of human responses to alarms in the context of occupational situations. It describes how humans contribute to accidents, and pays special attention to the assura...

Communication strategies facilitate effective information flow between a tutor and international audience during Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) training. This paper outlines different types of strategies to motivate people to take actions, and therefore communicate when there are linguistic barriers, mainly due to language or selection of tec...

The aim of the paper is to highlight the significance of implication of risk analysis and quality control methods for the improvement of parameters of lead molding process. For this reason, Fault Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) was developed in the conceptual stage of a new product TC-G100-NR. However, the final product was faulty (a complete lack...

Operadores humanos responden a alarmas en condiciones normales y también en situaciones inesperadas y anormales en tiempo real. El objetivo de este estudio consiste en aumentar el conocimiento de las reacciones humanas a alarmas en el ámbito laboral. Describe como los humanos pueden contribuir a accidentes y presta atención a la seguridad del proce...