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March 2015 - present
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- Examiner of MSc level course Scientific Theory and Engineering Methodology
Description
- Annual 7.5 hec Master course in Scientific Theory and Engineering Methodology, focused on teaching engineering students how to carry out scientifically based triangulation studies.
January 2013 - present
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- Examiner of PhD student course in Systems Theory
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- Bi-annual PhD-student level course instructor together with Dr. Lars-Ola Bligård
January 2012 - present
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- Examiner of MSc level course Production Ergonomics and Work Design
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- Annual 7.5 hec Master course in Production Ergonomics and Work design, together with Associat Prof. Peter Almström. The course won the Chalmers Pedagogical Award in 2014.
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Industry 4.0 was presented more than a decade ago as the fourth industrial revolution, aiming to significantly raise the level of sophistication of interconnected technologies and thus increase manufacturing industries’ profits. However, because the technology-driven narrow focus of Industry 4.0 on performance and profit fails to explain how to inc...
Modern-day marine pilots are a competent and experienced workforce. They are highly skilled navigators that support the merchant fleet in transiting through challenging sea areas and rivers, as well as in the navigation in and out of ports. In this study, Applied Cognitive Task Analysis (ACTA) was used to pursue a deeper understanding of expertise...
Innovations and advancements in technology create new opportunities to run and maintain manufacturing plants, which we refer to as digitalised manufacturing. This development is recognised as a socio-technical system (STS) change, where a change in the production system’s goals, technology, processes, people, or environment may lead to ripple effec...
In manufacturing companies, cognitive processing is required from assembly workers to perform correct and timely assembly of complex products, often with varied specifications and high quality demands. This paper explores assembly operators’ perceptions of cognitive/mental workload to provide a holistic understanding of the work conditions that aff...
In paced assembly lines, cognitive processing is required from assembly workers to perform correct and timely assembly of complex products with varying specifications. This interview study involving 75 industrial assemblers, design- and manufacturing engineers explores how assemblers’ cognitive performance is influenced by multiple factors within t...
In any work system design intervention—for example, a physical workplace re‐design, a work process change, or an equipment upgrade—it is often emphasized how important it is to involve stakeholders in the process of analysis and design, to gain their perspectives as input to the development, and ensure their future acceptance of the solution. While...
This special issue in International Journal of Production Research aims to further the Industry 5.0 agenda with a focus on human-centred design and human factors aspects. We draw on the technological potentials of Industry 4.0 while adopting the human-centred goals of Industry 5.0 for increased sustainability of these systems for employees. To this...
The purpose of this report is to provide a review of available research on implications of the Physical Work Environment for employee Health, Well-being and Performance. This literature review focuses on identifying the ways in which a sound and healthy workplace can be designed to provide favourable conditions for good job performance in parallel...
Purpose
Scholars and practitioners within industrial maintenance management are focused on understanding antecedents, correlates and consequences of the concept of “Smart Maintenance,” which consists of the four dimensions, namely, data-driven decision-making, human capital resource, internal integration and external integration. In order to facili...
How do modernized maintenance operations, often referred to as “Smart Maintenance”, impact the performance of manufacturing plants? This question is a pressing challenge for practitioners and scholars in industrial maintenance management, in direct response to the transition to an industrial environment with pervasive digital technologies. This pap...
How do modernized maintenance operations, often referred to as “Smart Maintenance”, impact the performance of manufacturing plants? The inability to answer this question backed by data is a problem for industrial maintenance management, especially in light of the ongoing rapid transition towards an industrial environment with pervasive digital tech...
Background:
Workplace Ergonomics and Human Factors (E/HF) remains as relevant and important as ever to respond to contemporary workplace design challenges. Therefore, E/HF expertise must be involved in early and appropriate phases of the workplace design process, in order to leverage user needs and requirements to constrain the proposed design sol...
The benefits of having users evaluate product or workplace design during the development process are well known. This is often achieved by letting users interact with one or more models of the design proposal, in order to elicit feedback. The issue for product developers is to choose what type(s) of models to use (from paper drawings to physical or...
This paper aims to explore how learning about Circular Economy (CE) may be facilitated through the use of the serious game In the Loop. Despite the growing literature base related to CE, academic reflection on education for a CE is currently limited. In the Loop was developed to provide an experiential learning situation for educating about materia...
Awareness is growing in European companies of the importance of managing all aspects of sustainability. However, the elusive social aspect of sustainability and its influence on successful business has been under-investigated in corporate culture literature so far. The aim of this paper is to examine whether a correlation can be found between corpo...
How do core business and manufacturing capabilities enable strategies for sustainable manufacturing, and what are those capabilities? This paper proposes a Capability Methodology for Sustainable Manufacturing (CMSM) for allowing top management of manufacturing companies to address these questions. A diagnostic tool was developed from three case stu...
In a near future where manufacturing companies are faced with the rapid technological developments of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Industry 4.0, a need arises to consider how this will affect human operators remaining as a vital and important resource in modern production systems. What will the implications of these orchestrated and ubiquitous...
Ergonomics and human factors (E/HF) has an important role throughout the whole product development process, but the scope and content of E/HF work differs depending on the phase of the project. The aim of this paper is to describe ergonomics activities in the product development process, with special focus on the purpose of ergonomics activities in...
Manual picking operations commonly occur both in distribution settings and within manufacturing industry and may consume large proportions of the working day for operators, with associated potential problems of poor postural ergonomics and low time efficiency. As a remedy to such problems, alternative material layouts like tilted material pallets m...
While market requirements demand that manufacturing systems increase their responsiveness, assembly fixtures remain limited in corresponding to the same demand. Fixture designers as practitioners are left without guidance to design reconfigurable fixtures. This study proposes a comparative design procedure for reconfigurable assembly fixtures that...
Production ergonomics – the science and practice of designing industrial workplaces to optimize human well-being and system performance – is a complex challenge for a designer. Humans are a valuable and flexible resource in any system of creation, and as long as they stay healthy, alert and motivated, they perform well and also become more competen...
Despite extensive research on future manufacturing and the forthcoming fourth industrial revolution (implying extensive digitalisation), there is a lack of understanding regarding the specific changes that can be expected for maintenance organisations. Therefore, developing scenarios for future maintenance is needed to define long-term strategies f...
This paper is a short communication introducing a novel method for stakeholder analysis, Change Agent Infrastructure (CHAI). The method is specifically developed in the context of ergonomics/work environment-related change projects and is meant for early stages of change projects. It maps potential stakeholders against eight distinct “roles” that h...
![Table 1 . Categorization of 3D imaging techniques [12].](profile/Jonatan-Berglund/publication/302921812/figure/tbl1/AS:668376351379470@1536364748981/Categorization-of-3D-imaging-techniques-12_Q320.jpg)
Production systems evolve to accommodate new and redesigned products. These changes are planned offline in virtual tools, to reduce disturbances on ongoing production. Offline planning requires virtual models that correctly represent reality. Most models are “as-designed” and suffer from geometrical errors stemming from deployment alterations. Such...
During the design process of a product, a variety of design variables are gradually determined – this happens either intentionally when design decisions are made, or unintentionally when design variables are determined by limitations brought about by circumstances. At the same time, product development in teams complicates the design process if the...
This paper is a short communication introducing a novel method for stakeholder analysis, Change Agent Infrastructure (CHAI). The method is specifically developed in the context of ergonomics/work environment-related change projects and is meant for early stages of change projects. It maps potential stakeholders against eight distinct “roles” that h...
This paper provides an overview of the EU project SO SMART (Socially Sustainable Manufacturing for the Factories of the Future), a coordinated support action (CSA) project. SO SMART examined the conditions in Europe for creating socially sustainable workplaces in the manufacturing sector, where factories flourish along with their social environment...
This paper presents the ACD3-Production framework – a two-dimensional model whose purpose is to visualize and clarify the scope, impact and organizational position of design decisions. The abbreviation stands for Activity-Centered Design Decision Determination and is based on a similar framework for product development that supports design decision...
The work activities of Industrial Engineers (IEs) and Ergonomists drive workplace changes. The purpose of this study is to compare the work practices of the two professions and examine 1) how IEs and ergonomists gain influence over workplace changes, and 2) whether there are prevailing types of intentional interaction behaviours called Power Bases...
This paper provides an overview of the EU project SO SMART (Socially Sustainable Manufacturing for the Factories of the Future), a coordinated support action (CSA) project. SO SMART examined the conditions in Europe for creating socially sustainable workplaces in the manufacturing sector, where factories flourish along with their social environment...
The context for this study is the maritime domain and the design of shipboard workspaces. Due to the globalized nature of shipping, the traditional approach to a participative ergonomics process can be a logistical challenge since stakeholders like designers, manufacturers and operators are often scattered both geographically and organizationally....
This paper presents the ACD3-Production framework—a two-dimensional model whose purpose is to visualize and clarify the scope, impact and organizational position of design decisions. The abbreviation stands for Activity-Centered Design Decision Determination and is based on a similar framework for product development that supports design decision-m...
The aim of this paper is to present a comparison between 2D and 3D models as tools for evaluating workplaces. The comparison focus on differences in the comments given when evaluation with 2D and 3D models. The results make strong indication that overall layout, line of sight and space are perceived differently in 2D and 3D models.
This paper examines the social implications of introducing a new technology into the product-service system (PSS) of electronic waste management (EWM). Using a previously established set of social sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) targeting the operations level (i.e. impacts on EWM operators), social implications are examined in a ca...
This paper concerns how to use electronic books (eBooks) as course literature, whether eBooks can replace the traditional paper book, and what to consider when using eBooks as course literature? The presented study is based on four MSc courses that used eBooks as course literature. The students' points of view were investigated with a survey, while...
Currently few attempts to properly structure knowledge that specifically supports a fully sustainable e-waste treatment system design have been proposed in literature. As a result, this paper sets up the prerequisites for a high-level framework to design sustainable plants in the supply chain of e-waste. The framework addresses production and envir...
Sustainable manufacturing has been extensively researched in the last decades, however there is a lack of coherence in literature specifically addressing its social dimension. Within the framework of the Social Sustainability-themed project SO SMART (Socially Sustainable Manufacturing for the Factories of the Future), a preliminary explorative surv...
The benefits of involving users in a development process are well described. This paper describes a procedure for using 2D and 3D models in a workplace design process, which is based on three rounds of user studies within the maritime domain. The process includes various kinds of models that can be used in order to elicit design feedback in a cost-...
This workshop aims to discuss and explore the relationships between three central concepts for the workplaces of the future: Ergonomics, Social Sustainability, and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). What meanings do these concepts convey to the participants? In which professional environments are they most frequently used? Are they relevant for...
This study compares how Canadian industrial engineers (IEs) and ergonomists 'position themselves' to influence human factors and ergonomics (HFE) issues. The study examined how these stakeholders perceived their influence on HFE issues, constraints they operated under, and strategies used. The results contribute to an understanding of decisions and...
The purpose of this paper is to link social sustainability challenges to manufacturing companies, focusing on the upcoming recruitment crisis caused by demographic changes in Europe. The findings are based on literature studies that were validated and reflected upon as the study progressed. The conclusion is that diversity within the manufacturing...
![Figure 1: LoA-matrix showing joint physical and cognitive automation [8]](profile/Sandra-Mattsson/publication/236944825/figure/fig1/AS:299443611029505@1448404328422/LoA-matrix-showing-joint-physical-and-cognitive-automation-8_Q320.jpg)
There is a need to further develop measureable methods and models in the ‘Human- Automation Interaction’ area. Since time is a decisive factor in production, the aim of this paper is to define interaction in relation to time i.e. interaction-time, and to investigate how this can be used in practice. Results from a case study show that interaction-t...
In industrial production companies, the practice of assigning responsibility for human factors and ergonomics (HFE) to specific professionals (referred to as HF agents in this paper) may take on various organizational forms. This interview study examines the extent to which HF agents are able to give input towards the design of new production syste...
Improving production ergonomics is a pursuit common to many companies in different
industrial sectors. At the core is an aspiration to eliminate risks for work-related musculo-
skeletal disorders (MSDs), but modern views on ergonomics have evolved the discipline
from a purely physiological, instrumental concern to an organizational, holistic syst...
Ergonomics problems in production systems are of a multi-causal nature. It has been established in ergonomics literature that time-related factors, including activity duration, repetitiveness, work-rest distribution and muscle reactions to dynamic loads, can influence the occurrence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). In recent years,...
Manufacturing corporations sometimes use corporate-internal procedures to evaluate and monitor the ergonomic status of the workplace. This article describes an industrial case study in the Swedish automotive sector, where an internally developed evaluation procedure was compared with a procedure based on a Swedish national standard provision.It was...
Digital engineering tools and procedures have had a positive impact on the European manufacturing industry. However, to design a sustainable manufacturing system, a multitude of system dimensions has to be jointly optimized.
Manual work and automation are the complementary elements in the modern production systems. The increasing customization and...
Production development can conflict with production ergonomics and management of environmental impacts. In this paper, we describe how ergonomics can be assessed in production system design by means of a joint simulation tool. The tool enables ergonomics and environmental impacts assessment in conjunction with production process development. The er...
In Sweden, industrial corporations are required to actively monitor and improve the working environment for their employees according to the provision AFS 1998:1, a document that offers guidelines for maintaining a healthy physical working environment, chiefly by ensuring healthy working postures. This provision was purposely formulated in a very g...
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Question (1)
A colleague and I are currently running an international survey aimed at the global Human Factors and Ergonomics (HF/E) community, asking them (in english) for their personal understanding of words that have to do with social sustainability. An explorative study of a specific profession's terminology use, you might say.
Recruitment has been mainly conducted online, in the form of spreading the survey link via the following channels:
- email lists to participants at various HF/E conferences
- spreading the survey with a short description in specialized interest groups on social media like LinkedIn and Facebook
- posting the survey link on interest groups' websites (which is dependent on personal contacts)
- Asking personal contacts for aid with spreading the survey among their peers.
Survey participants were given the option of giving their email address if they were interested in getting follow-ups of the results.
After the survey had been out for about 2 months, we had 61 participants with a skewed over-representation of certain countries, so we decided to try and boost interest in the survey by releasing some descriptive info of the sample to previous participants, e.g. the nationality, gender distribution and represented application areas of the sample (but of course no actual results of the pertinent questions asked). We tried to 'liven this up' by making a short infographic video, which was then emailed to previous survey participants and posted on all the social media groups that were previously approached.
It has so far been an interesting challenge to get participation for the survey in what I can only assume is a general online buzz of distractions and requests for people's attention - in this, our survey may come out of nowhere asking for 10-15 minutes of a HF/E professional's time, meaning that the only apparent motivator for participating in the survey is a genuine willingness to help and an interest in learning what our community says about these issues.
Since the recruitment approach could be best described as "snowball recrutiment", where we have a purposive sample and hope for participants and contacts to spread the message onward, we cannot say (other than an educated guess) how many potential respondents we reached (because there is no guarantee that every single person logging in to social media forums actually sees the posting, due to e.g. news filtering functions in LinkedIn) compared to how many actually answered.
Has anyone else faced similar recruitment challenges regarding creation of interest, increasing the outreach and keeping the sample representative; and if so, what are your thoughts?
