Investigating the effects of physical and cognitive demands on the quality of performance under different pacing levels.
The study was undertaken to investigate the effects of pacing on aspects of performance at an assembly task and on the operators' responses related to work behaviour, perceived workload and perceived stress. A particular objective of the study was to investigate whether physical and cognitive demand...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 41; pp. 1625 - 1632 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2012 Supplement
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104523061&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104523061 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10519815 3RC jtl: Work issn: 10519815 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2012 Supplement vid: 41 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 104523061 71928696 10.3233/wor-2012-0363-1625 104523061 ppf: 1625 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Investigating the effects of physical and cognitive demands on the quality of performance under different pacing levels. aug: au: Soares, Marcelo M. Jacobs, Karen Shaikh, S. Cobb, S.V.G. Golightly, D. Segal, J.I. Haslegrave, C.M. affil: Human Factors Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK sug: subj: Ergonomics Management Task Performance and Analysis Workload Psychomotor Performance Blue Collar Workers Human Prospective Studies Questionnaires Checklists Adult Middle Age Female Male Perception Paired T-Tests Analysis of Variance Repeated Measures Post Hoc Analysis P-Value Time Factors Productivity Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: The study was undertaken to investigate the effects of pacing on aspects of performance at an assembly task and on the operators' responses related to work behaviour, perceived workload and perceived stress. A particular objective of the study was to investigate whether physical and cognitive demands may interact in their influences on these effects. An assembly task was simulated in the laboratory and the level of pacing imposed, work height and memory load within the task were all varied. The results showed that the type of pacing commonly imposed (as is common with a lean manufacturing Takt time system in industry) can significantly affect both performance and perceived workload and stress. Physical demands (through work height affecting posture) and mental demand (through memory load) were also found to have significant effects, as would be expected from the many studies of these in the literature. More importantly, some interactions were found between pacing and work height in their effects on quality of assembly and the operator's own rating of performance, and between work height and memory load in their effects on errors. These findings will need to be taken into account by companies when implementing Takt time systems. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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