title: Understanding the complex needs of automotive training at final assembly lines.
abstract: Automobile final assembly operators must be highly skilled to succeed in a low automation environment where multiple variants must be assembled in quick succession. This paper presents formal user studies conducted at OPEL and VOLVO Group to identify assembly training needs and a subset of requirements; and to explore potential features of a hypothetical game-based virtual training system. Stakeholder analysis, timeline analysis, link analysis, Hierarchical Task Analysis and thematic content analysis were used to analyse the results of interviews with various stakeholders (17 and 28 participants at OPEL and VOLVO, respectively). The results show that there is a strong case for the implementation of virtual training for assembly tasks. However, it was also revealed that stakeholders would prefer to use a virtual training to complement, rather than replace, training on pre-series vehicles.
authors.affiliation: Human Factors Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Electronic address: setia.hermawati@nottingham.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Setia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hermawati
authors.affiliation: Human Factors Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Glyn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lawson
authors.affiliation: Human Factors Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mirabelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: D'Cruz
authors.affiliation: Adam Opel AG - General Motors Company, Rüsselsheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Arlt
authors.affiliation: Adam Opel AG - General Motors Company, Rüsselsheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Apold
authors.affiliation: VOLVO Group, Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.affiliation: VOLVO Group, Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Maria Gink
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Lövgren
authors.affiliation: VOLVO Group, Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lennart
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Malmsköld
mesh_terms: D001336:Automobiles / Q000592:standards*; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: Assembly; Training; Virtual