Operations System Design

Engineers designing new workplaces must consider a range of strategies for the operations they design. This may include facility layouts, materials flows, information flow and IT systems, work task allocation and equipment, among many aspects. Designers must be constantly aware of human factors to ensure their systems are safe, effective and provide high quality goods and services to customers. The choice of operational design strategy sets the stage for all of these - a bad choice will severely limit the resulting design. The HFE lab conducts detailed assessments of the advantages, disadvantages and limitations in specific design strategies to provide designers with the best advice for their particular design challenge.