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Objectives and competences

Objectives: • Student will gain in-depth knowledge about ergonomic workplace design using advanced facilities. • Student will know how to use different methods and techniques for work and workplace design. • Student will know how to analyse gained results of different methods and techniques and to assess them regarding benefits and weaknesses of selected methods. • Student will gain knowledge about digital data capturing of worker’s movements with sensors suit. • Student will know to give guidelines for using different ergonomics methods performed digitally, regarding different working environments. Competences: • In-depth knowledge about ergonomic workplace design using advanced facilities. • Ability to use different methods and techniques for workplace design. • Knowledge about digital data capturing approach. Ability to use and assess different analyses regarding the workplace demands

Content (Syllabus outline)

Content: • Basic principles of ergonomic workplace design. • Working environment and its effects on worker (noise, illumination, temperature, humidity, air velocity). • Human strain and stress in the work system. • Ergonomic tests and evaluation methods. • Digital approach - computer aided work and workplace design based on anthropology. • Digital data capturing - performance of computer simulations and ergonomics analysis with the use of modern research equipment (Xsens sensors suit, RIUM)

Learning and teaching methods

• lectures • individual research work • practical work with computer (simulations and analyses), • seminar.

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

Knowledge and understanding: • In-depth knowledge about ergonomic workplace design. • Knowledge how to use different ergonomics analyses manually and with computer software. • Independent performance of ergonomics analyses. • Assessment of different ergonomics solutions regarding working environment’s demands. • Knowledge and understanding the meaning of different ergonomics methods. • Knowledge and understanding the software for ergonomics workplace design. • In-depth knowledge about digital data capturing and knowledge how to perform and use it.

Readings

• Balantič Z., Polajnar A., Jevšnik S., Ergonomija v teoriji in praksi, Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje, Slovenija, 2016. • Vujica Herzog N., Pregled testov in metod v ergonomiji, Fakulteta za strojništvo, UM, 2016. • Vujica Herzog N., Ergonomsko oblikovanje delovnih mest, Programski paket Siemens Jack, Univerzitetna založba UM, 2019. • Vujica Herzog N., Študij dela in ergonomija, Navodila za vaje, Univerzitetna založba UM, 2020. • A. Polajnar, V. Verhovnik, A. Sabadin, B. Hrašovec: Ergonomija, Univerza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za strojništvo, Maribor, 2003. • S. N. Chengalur, S. H. Rodgers, T. E. Bernard, Kodak's ergonomic design for people at work, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

Prerequisits

None

  • izr. prof. dr. NATAŠA VUJICA HERZOG, univ. dipl. inž. str.

  • Seminar paper: 60
  • Oral presentation: 40

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  • Slovenian
  • Slovenian