Title
Human factors in operational maintenance on future naval vessels
Author
Post, W.M.
Schreurs, J.C.
Rakhorst-Oudendijk, M.L.W.
Badon Ghijben, N.A.
van Diggelen, J.
Publication year
2014
Abstract
The increasing complexity of operational maintenance on naval platforms and the need to sustain this also in battle conditions are in conflict with the requirement for crew reduction. This asks for a new approach. The Netherlands MoD knows how to develop technical solutions for operational maintenance support, but it lacks knowledge on human factors, cognitive engineering and design methods as part of an integrated design philosophy towards the optimal balance between man, technology and organisation. This knowledge needs to be applied to the design of future platforms. In a two-year programme, TNO developed this knowledge, with the specific aim to demonstrate a suite of methods for analysis, design, simulation and evaluation of future operational maintenance concepts (including support and education & training), and to test this suite in a realistic and concrete operational maintenance scenario with reduced technical manning and expertise. A selected set of analysis methods were applied to the current operational maintenance on-board the RNLN OPV. This included extensive observations on board, descriptive work modelling and workload assessment, which enabled us to identify which parts of the work are more and less knowledge-intensive, and eligible earlier or later for automation, mechanization or support. By practicing selected methods for design, simulation and evaluation, we achieved an innovative operational maintenance concept, in terms of a new way of working, crew composition and support tools for future operational maintenance. At the same time, we reviewed the individual and combined usefulness of the methods.
Subject
Behavioural Changes Human Performances
HOI - Human Behaviour & Organisational Innovations PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Navy
Cognitive work analysis
Crew design
Manning
Navy
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TNO identifier
520940
Source
Proceedings of the 12th International Naval Engineering Conference and Exhibition INEC 2014, 20-22 May, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Document type
conference paper