Die Kommissionierung ist eine besonders zeit- und kostenintensive Tätigkeit in der Intralogistik, vor allem wenn diese manuell ausgeführt wird. Deswegen kann es für Unternehmen wirtschaftlich interessant sein, autonome Kommissionierroboter, die mit Menschen zusammenarbeiten, in einem hybriden...

This paper presents Lean Ergonomics (LE) as an employee- and process-related method in a practice-oriented way. Stagnations in economic improvements of the processes, combined with known, high stresses of the basic workers on the shopfloor with ambiguous starting points of ergonomic measures...

Die immer stärkere Verflechtung von Mensch und Technik in nahezu allen Lebens- und Arbeitsbereichen stellt uns vor neue Herausforderungen, verlangt nach wissenschaftlicher Fundierung und praktischen Lösungen. Zudem wirft sie auch ethische Fragen auf. Dieses Buch stellt die...

Exoskeletons were invented over 100 years ago but have only become popular in the last two decades, especially in the working industry as they can decrease work-related loads significantly. The most often used exoskeletons are for the lower back and shoulder since these are commonly affected...

Using a real workplace as an example, this paper describes how digital human modelling software facilitates planning and simulating work processes. This is closely connected to the ongoing activities and results from the SOPHIA project in which the inferred parameters are used for ergonomic...

Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and...