Virtual reality (VR) training offers the capability to industrial workers to acquire skills and
address complex tasks by immersing them in a safe and controlled virtual environment …

With the ongoing trend of mass-customization and an increasing product variety, just-in-time
part logistics more and more becomes one of the greatest challenges in today's automobile …

Purpose This paper explores some management concepts and how applying these
concepts from business to higher education can be problematic, let alone incompatible …

Factors such as repetitiveness of work, required application of forces, handling of heavy
loads, and awkward, static postures expose assembly line workers to risks of …

In manufacturing, control of ergonomic risks at manual workplaces is a necessity
commanded by legislation, care for health of workers and economic considerations …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are presented as highly connected:
an 'interrelated'and 'indivisible'agenda with a need for policy coherence for implementation …

Manual assembly operations are sensitive to human errors that can diminish the quality of
final products. The paper shows an application of human reliability analysis in a realistic …

Competition is an ongoing challenge confronting industrial corporations, particularly
automobile manufacturing. Striving to improve product quality and productivity, automotive …

In this paper, we advise to perform assembly line balancing simultaneously with decision-
making on parts feeding. Such integrated planning may open additional potential to reduce …

Ergonomic interventions may potentially reduce MSDs, but the context of industries (barriers,
ever-changing situations, dialogue processes) might play a significant role in the success of …