Affiliation:
1. Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, Mexico
2. Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
3. Tecnológico Nacional de México, Mexico & Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, Mexico
Abstract
Ergonomic assessment of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) involves several attributes. Most of these attributes can be assessed only subjectively. Several models have been developed to assess AMT from an ergonomic approach. However, these models have several deficiencies, such as 1) assessment for all alternatives in all their ergonomic attributes should be done in a single period. It lacks time pauses when decision-makings include several decisors and alternatives, 2) every person can access the information and change it, and 3) they lack the propriety of correcting mistakes once users (or decisors) have entered an unwished data. Then, the objective of this research is to develop a software for the ergonomic assessment of AMT that deletes these deficiencies. As method, axiomatic design (AD) was applied jointly with the TRIZ methodology. Software was validated with results of a previous case study. Finally, authors developed a software that removed the deficiencies of previous models.