| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R35421/01 |
| Title: |
Modelling People: A step change in the manufacturing system design process |
| Principal Investigator: |
Baines, Professor T |
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| Department: |
Sch of Industrial and Manufacturing Scie |
| Organisation: |
Cranfield University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 2001 |
Ends: |
31 December 2001 |
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169,468
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Manufact. Enterprise Ops& Mgmt |
Manufacturing Machine & Plant |
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| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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The factory is a working environment created by engineers. This environment affects the way in which the people who work within it perform, and hence influences the competitiveness of the business. In spite of much work by the social sciences, engineers are still ill equipped to understand the effect of such relationships on the factory they are designing.Our proposal is to create a modelling methodology that enables engineers to model relationships between people, their working environment, and subsequent performance. This methodology will be encapsulated within a computer based tool, that will work directly with computer simulation packages that are widely used by engineers in manufacturing system design. This decision support tool would be a valuable aid to engineers attempting to creating working environments that achieve the best performance from people.
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http://www.cranfield.ac.uk |