Industrial Cognitive Engineering
Abstract
The term “cognition” describes mental processes, such as perception, memory, thought, learning, and language. Independent, although interacting, developments contribute to the fact that the proportion of cognitive functions in industrial work systems is steadily increasing and that their contribution to value added is becoming more performance-defining. Companies across-the-board are not sufficiently prepared for changes of this kind. Consequently, there is a strong demand for reliable methods with the help of which all tasks related to cognitive functions and the resulting complexity of industrial value added can be mastered in a target-oriented way and on an appropriate industrial level. “Industrial Cognitive Engineering” meets both these requirements. It combines cognitive engineering with the approved practical approaches and experiences of industrial engineering. Furthermore, its integration into the framework of workplace innovation is discussed.
Section
Articles
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
