Ageing workforce management in manufacturing systems: state of the art and future research agenda

M Calzavara, D Battini, D Bogataj… - … Journal of Production …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The workforce ageing phenomenon is recently affecting most of the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries, due to a general …

Human diversity factors in production system modelling and design: state of the art and future researches

N Katiraee, D Battini, O Battaia, M Calzavara - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2019 - Elsevier
Workforce diversity effects in manufacturing systems have attracted a wide range of
researches in the last years. Differences between workers in terms of age, gender, physical …

Evaluating ergonomics and financial distress in manufacturing organization behavior: Resiliency framework from operations and strategic management

SY Kottala, AK Sahu - The Learning Organization, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Ergonomics usually reciprocate the study about people fitness toward working
environment. In addition, financial distress refers a condition of organizations incompetency …

Assessing the use of immersive virtual reality, mouse and touchscreen in pointing and dragging-and-drop** tasks among young, middle-aged and older adults

J Chen, C Or - Applied ergonomics, 2017 - Elsevier
This study assessed the use of an immersive virtual reality (VR), a mouse and a touchscreen
for one-directional pointing, multi-directional pointing, and dragging-and-drop** tasks …

The sustainable role of human factor in I4. 0 scenarios

S Panagou, F Fruggiero, A Lambiase - Procedia Computer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The ageing of working population is the byproduct of the global recognized trend of the
general population ageing. The decline of elder human operators' capabilities is a main …

A stochastic-based model to assess the variability of task completion times of differently aged and experienced workers subject to fatigue

A Lucchese, S Digiesi, G Mummolo - IFIP International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
In current industrial scenarios, the new paradigm of Industry 5.0 (I5. 0) is gaining interest:
considering the Industry 4.0 paradigm as a base, I5. 0 is aimed at reaching a more …

Temporal leeway: can it help to reduce biomechanical load for older workers performing repetitive light assembly tasks?

L Claudon, K Desbrosses, MA Gilles… - Applied Ergonomics, 2020 - Elsevier
Current industrial production systems allow assembly of customised products which include
additional elements distinguishing them from a reference model. This customisation can …

Movement time and subjective rating of difficulty in real and virtual pipe transferring tasks

KW Li, TLA Nguyen - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
An experiment was performed to investigate the movement time (MT) and subjective rating
of difficulty for real and virtual pipe transferring tasks. Thirty adults joined as human …

Motor adaptation capacity as a function of age in carrying out a repetitive assembly task at imposed work paces

MA Gilles, JC Guélin, K Desbrosses, P Wild - Applied ergonomics, 2017 - Elsevier
The working population is getting older. Workers must adapt to changing conditions to
respond to the efforts required by the tasks they have to perform. In this laboratory-based …

The use of ballistic movement as an additional method to assess performance of computer mice

RF Lin, YC Tsai - International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 2015 - Elsevier
This study investigates an additional method for independently evaluating performance of
speed and accuracy of computer mice, based on five parameters of the initial submovement …