Product Selection and Investment Appraisal for Flexible Assembly

1987 ◽  
Vol 201 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
D F Williams ◽  
A M El-Tamimi ◽  
S M A Suliman
Keyword(s):  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Selection Problem ◽  
Product Selection ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Flexible Assembly ◽  
Investment Appraisal ◽  
Early Design Stages

An approach has been developed for the solution of the flexible assembly product selection problem. Identifying suitable products for the system is achieved by a set of product selection criteria which is based on the technological adaptability and financial requirements of competing products. The method developed enhances early design stages by providing the most appropriate candidate product(s) and enabling an efficient system to be selected.

Systems Thinking in Aerospace: The Contributions to the Design of Future Airliners’ Single Pilot Operations

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-192
Author(s):  
Daniela Schmid ◽  
Neville A. Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
System Behavior ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Early Design Stages

Systems thinking methods have evolved into a popular toolkit in Human Factors to analyze complex sociotechnical systems at early design stages, such as future airliners’ single pilot operations (SPO). A quantitative re-analysis of studies from a systematic literature review (Schmid & Stanton, 2019b) was conducted to categorically assess their contributions to researching SPO and to fitting their systems thinking methods to contemporary Human Factors problems. Although only 15 of 79 publications applied systems thinking methods to operational, automation, and the pilot incapacitation issue(s) of SPO, these studies provided a comprehensive concept of operations that is able to deal with many issues of future single-piloted airliners. These theoretical models require further evaluation by looking at the empirical instances of system behavior. Finally, the hierarchical structures in system’s development and operations from systems thinking enable Human Factors professionals and researchers to approach SPO systematically.

Design optimization approach comparing multicriterial variants using BIM in early design stages

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasimir Forth ◽  
Jimmy Abualdenien ◽  
André Borrmann ◽  
Sabrina Fellermann ◽  
Christian Schunicht
Keyword(s):  
Design Optimization ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Early Design Stages

Parametric real-time energy analysis in early design stages: a method for residential buildings in Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Hollberg ◽  
Thomas Lichtenheld ◽  
Norman Klüber ◽  
Jürgen Ruth
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Energy Analysis ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Early Design Stages

Identification of Human Errors During Early Design Stage Functional Failure Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukman Irshad ◽  
Salman Ahmed ◽  
Onan Demirel ◽  
Irem Y. Tumer
Keyword(s):  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Human Error ◽  
System Level ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
Functional Failure ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Early Design Stage ◽  
Early Design Stages

Detection of potential failures and human error and their propagation over time at an early design stage will help prevent system failures and adverse accidents. Hence, there is a need for a failure analysis technique that will assess potential functional/component failures, human errors, and how they propagate to affect the system overall. Prior work has introduced FFIP (Functional Failure Identification and Propagation), which considers both human error and mechanical failures and their propagation at a system level at early design stages. However, it fails to consider the specific human actions (expected or unexpected) that contributed towards the human error. In this paper, we propose a method to expand FFIP to include human action/error propagation during failure analysis so a designer can address the human errors using human factors engineering principals at early design stages. To explore the capabilities of the proposed method, it is applied to a hold-up tank example and the results are coupled with Digital Human Modeling to demonstrate how designers can use these tools to make better design decisions before any design commitments are made.

scholarly journals A REAL PERSONNEL SELECTION PROBLEM USING THE GENERALIZED CHOQUET INTEGRAL METHODOLOGY

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 694-716
Author(s):  
Yavuz ÖZDEMİR ◽  
Kemal Gökhan NALBANT
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Choquet Integral ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Selection Problem ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Selection Of

The main objective in the selection of personnel is to select the most appropriate candidate for a job. Personnel selection for human resources management is a very important issue.The aim of this paper is to determine the best-performing personnel for promotion using an application of a Multi Criteria Decision Making(MCDM) method, generalized Choquet integral, to a real personnel selection problem of a case study in Turkey and 17 alternatives are ranked according to personnel selection criteria (22 subcriteria are classified under 5 main criteria). The main contribution of this paper is to determine the interdependency among main criteria and subcriteria, the nonlinear relationship among them and the environmental uncertainties while selecting personnel alternatives using the generalized Choquet integral method with the experts’ view. To the authors’ knowledge, this will be the first study which uses the generalized Choquet Integral methodology for human resources. 

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