Participatory Ergonomics in the context of Industry 4.0: a literature review

Abstract

Participatory Ergonomics Programmes are generally considered to be Macroergonomics interventions in order to contribute to the continuous improvement of the work. However, over the past few decades, the industrial operation has been changing until reaching a new form of industrialisation. Now, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Industry 4.0, begins to be part of the routine of organisations and people. In this sense, this article aimed to perform a literature review about the existing studies on the relationship of Industry 4.0 and Participatory Ergonomics. Through the combination of keywords, 112 articles were found. After eliminating the repeated articles, an analysis was performed with the remaining articles, showing the sources and period of publication, countries and most frequent keywords. Finally, a more detailed analysis was performed with the 10 most recent articles published in Journals. The “Operator 4.0” is a valuable resource in order to integrate Ergonomics and the Industry 4.0, being that researches are scarce and much remains to be investigated.

Keywords:

• Ergonomics
• Participatory Ergonomics
• Industry 4.0
• Operator 4.0
• literature review

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Evandro Eduardo Broday

Evandro Eduardo Broday is Professor at Department of Production Engineering at Federal University of Technology – Paraná, Southern Brazil. His research interests include Ergonomics/Human factors, Thermal Comfort and Statistical Process Control.