Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines
Automobile final assembly operators must be highly skilled to succeed in a low automation environment where multiple variants must be assembled in quick succession. This paper presents formal user studies conducted at OPEL and VOLVO Group to identify assembly training needs and a subset of requireme...
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| author | Hermawati, Setia Lawson, Glyn D'Cruz, Mirabelle Arlt, Frank Apold, Judith Andersson, Lina Lövgren, Maria Gink Malmsköld, Lennart |
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| description | Automobile final assembly operators must be highly skilled to succeed in a low automation environment where multiple variants must be assembled in quick succession. This paper presents formal user studies conducted at OPEL and VOLVO Group to identify assembly training needs and a subset of requirements; and to explore potential features of a hypothetical game-based virtual training system. Stakeholder analysis, timeline analysis, link analysis, Hierarchical Task Analysis and thematic content analysis were used to analyse the results of interviews with various stakeholders (17 and 28 participants at OPEL and VOLVO, respectively). The results show that there is a strong case for the implementation of virtual training for assembly tasks. However, it was also revealed that stakeholders would prefer to use a virtual training to complement, rather than replace, training on pre-series vehicles. |
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| spelling | nottingham-347922020-05-04T17:01:29Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34792/ Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines Hermawati, Setia Lawson, Glyn D'Cruz, Mirabelle Arlt, Frank Apold, Judith Andersson, Lina Lövgren, Maria Gink Malmsköld, Lennart Automobile final assembly operators must be highly skilled to succeed in a low automation environment where multiple variants must be assembled in quick succession. This paper presents formal user studies conducted at OPEL and VOLVO Group to identify assembly training needs and a subset of requirements; and to explore potential features of a hypothetical game-based virtual training system. Stakeholder analysis, timeline analysis, link analysis, Hierarchical Task Analysis and thematic content analysis were used to analyse the results of interviews with various stakeholders (17 and 28 participants at OPEL and VOLVO, respectively). The results show that there is a strong case for the implementation of virtual training for assembly tasks. However, it was also revealed that stakeholders would prefer to use a virtual training to complement, rather than replace, training on pre-series vehicles. Elsevier 2015-01-02 Article PeerReviewed Hermawati, Setia, Lawson, Glyn, D'Cruz, Mirabelle, Arlt, Frank, Apold, Judith, Andersson, Lina, Lövgren, Maria Gink and Malmsköld, Lennart (2015) Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines. Applied Ergonomics, 46,Pt.A . pp. 144-157. ISSN 0003-6870 Assembly; Virtual; Training http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003687014001367 doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2014.07.014 doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2014.07.014 |
| spellingShingle | Assembly; Virtual; Training Hermawati, Setia Lawson, Glyn D'Cruz, Mirabelle Arlt, Frank Apold, Judith Andersson, Lina Lövgren, Maria Gink Malmsköld, Lennart Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines |
| title | Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines |
| title_full | Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines |
| title_fullStr | Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines |
| title_short | Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines |
| title_sort | understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines |
| topic | Assembly; Virtual; Training |
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