Significance of the dimensional view for visualizing relevant aspects of a production system in a co-operative planning process

Pictorial visualization is expected to facilitate communication between industrial professionals when planning working environments and production systems. This hypothesis was investigated by studying how 24 participants including managers, supervisors, machine operators, and occupational health and...

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Published in:Ergonomics 2002-10, Vol.45 (13), p.910-921
Main Authors: Bengtsson, Peter, Johansson, Curt R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
CAD
Communication
Computer aided design
Cooperative Behavior
Dimensional View
Engineering and Technology
Engineering Psychology
Ergonomics
Ergonomics. Human factors
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human Factors
Humans
Interior Design and Furnishings - methods
Interprofessional Relations
Maskinteknik
Mechanical Engineering
Occupational Health
Occupational psychology
Participation
Planning Techniques
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Production planning
Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Space life sciences
Sweden
Teknik
Teknisk psykologi
Virtual Environments
Visualization
Workplace
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Summary:Pictorial visualization is expected to facilitate communication between industrial professionals when planning working environments and production systems. This hypothesis was investigated by studying how 24 participants including managers, supervisors, machine operators, and occupational health and safety officials, judged three types of computer animated visualization varying in dimensional view (scale and scope of a production line):shop floor view/survey of shop floor; production unit view/semi-survey of production unit; and workplace view/close-up of workplace, in relation to a set of planning issues. The participants participated in a controlled 2-day planning workshop, redesigning a fictitious manufacturing process by means of computer graphics, and then responded to a questionnaire. It can be concluded that shop floor view as well as production unit view are significant for survey planning issues, while all 3-dimensional views are significant for close-up planning issues. Analogously, all dimensional views are significant for technocentric planning issues, whereas only the workplace view is valuable for anthropocentric planning issues.
ISSN:0014-0139
1366-5847
1366-5847
DOI:10.1080/00140130210126360