Effects of stature, age and vehicle motion on ingress movement

Consideration of workers’ differences in production systems modelling and design: State of the art and directions for future research

“…In the proposed model, the standard operation time of the workstations increases by a worker productivity factor, with higher values for low-skilled and aged workers. Hanson et al (2009) considered both the age and the physical characteristics of workers on the assembly line work. The results indicate that age significantly affected all the test parameters and is thus an issue that developers should consider, along with anthropometric variables like stature.…”

“…In summary, workstation design needs to incorporate workers' physical characteristics and work capabilities and limitations. Hanson et al (2009) considered both the physical characteristics (e.g. stature) and age of assembly line workers and found that stature significantly affected such workers' joint angle distribution and joint angle velocity distribution.…”

“…On the basis of the investigated sample (100 papers), it can be concluded that there have been very few studies that simultaneously considered two human factors in their studies, and no study that considered more than two human factors together was found. There were only four papers (around 4% of all the selected papers) that concurrently considered two individual differences in their model and design: the paper by Digiesi et al (2018), which concurrently considered skill and age; the paper by Dalle Mura and Dini (2019b), which concurrently considered skill and anthropometry; the paper by Efe, Kremer, and Kurt (2018), which concurrently considered age and gender; and the paper by Hanson et al (2009), which concurrently considered age and anthropometry. The other 96 selected papers focused only on one human factor, mainly skill.…”