A Computer Aided Workstation Assessor for Crew Operations - WOSTAS.
Abstract
The last decade has witnessed the development of a number of computer aided workplace design and evaluation algorithms. However, none of these models specifically address the problem of designing the work-space of a crew. Multi-Man-Machine Work Area Design and Evaluation System-MAWADES is being developed for this purpose under a multi-year research program. Workstation Assessor - WOSTAS is the first module in MAWADES. WOSTAS is aimed at grouping and/or subdividing activities or tasks of a crew in such a way that all job stations have a fairly equal amount of work in terms of the time to perform the tasks. WOSTAS is a network based model, which accepts mission oriented task requirements of a crew, and generates suggested total number of workstations and the tasks to be carried out at each workstation. The model allows for probabilistic branchings in the mission data. Some of the task assignment criteria built into the model area: each task group should require fairly similar abilities, precedence relationships between tasks should be observed, whenever indicated, user enforced groupings or separations should be met, timewise work-loads should be fairly balanced across the task groups.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA116045
Entities
People
- Babur Mustafa Pulat
Organizations
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University