The use of the simulation-based technique in facility layout has been a choice in the industry due to its convenience and efficient generation of results. Nevertheless, the solutions generated are not capable of addressing delays due to worker’s health and safety which significantly impact overall operational efficiency. It is, therefore, critical to incorporate ergonomics in facility design. I...

In order to decrease the measuring cycle time on the coordinate measuring machine (CMM) a robot workstation for the positioning of measuring objects was created. The application of a simple 5-axis industrial robot enables the positioning of the objects within the working space of CMM and measuring of different surfaces on the same object without human intervention. In this article an upgrade of...

Recently large scale distributed workstation LAN systems have been widely used in educational systems like educational centers in universities. In those systems, avoiding the large traffic caused by many users’ continuous operations is one of the most important problems. In this paper we modeled the users’ behavior in educational systems, and simulated and analyzed the traffic of the Ethernet L...

A variety of latency hiding techniques has been investigated at the hardware level. However, except multithreading, which may require substantial program structuring effort, other software-based latency hiding methods have not been investigated. In this paper, we consider design alternatives for latency hiding other than multithreading. Furthermore, we present experimental evidence for the vali...

Abstrac t This paper deals with the design and realization of a measurement system for estimating power consumption of workstation computers during the execution of benchmarks. The measurement system and the test bench architecture, designed to measure the instantaneous power consumption from the power line of a workstation motherboard, are presented. Then, the calibration procedure used to com...

The 1980s have seen the advent of the first commercial applications of artificial intelligence research. The two prime examples are expert systems and natural language processors. These developments have already begun to affect the design of office computers. Future office workstations will have some 'understanding' of office procedures and of the goals of office workers and their organisation....

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused sudden shift interactions between students and teachers from four corners classroom to fully online learning through workstations. By using a conjoint analysis approach, this study aimed evaluate preference undergraduate Philippines on workstation design attributes during pandemic. Seven were examined orthogonal design: type gadget, keyboard, mouse...

Collaborative robots are revolutionising the manufacturing industry and way workers perform their tasks. When designing shared workspaces between humans, human factors ergonomics often overlooked. This study assessed relationship cognitive workload, workstation design, user acceptance trust in collaborative robots. We combined subjective objective data to evaluate workload during an assembly ta...