An investigation of a human material handler on part flow in automated manufacturing systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-135

  Shin, Dongmin ^a   Wysk, Richard A ^a   Rothrock, Ling ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized manufacturing systems; Human functional specification; Material handling tasks; Part flow complexity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER CONTROL; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPUTERIZED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; HUMAN FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION; MATERIAL HANDLING TASKS; PART FLOW COMPLEXITY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 30444437866     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.859175     Document Type: Article

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