Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines
Hermawati, Setia ; Lawson, Glyn ; D'Cruz, Mirabelle ; Arlt, Frank ; Apold, Judith ; Andersson, Lina ; Gink Lövgren, Maria ; Malmsköld, Lennart
2015
46
Part A
144-157
assembly line work ; case study ; automobile industry ; safety and health training ; audiovisual instruction
Health and safety training
http://dx.doi.org/0.1016/j.apergo.2014.07.014
English
Bibliogr.
"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."
Digital
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