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In the light of the proceeding demographic change in Europe, companies have to face the challenge to cope with the changes of the working environment with a continuously aging workforce. Hence, the design of age-based work systems and processes becomes an important factor of German companies. Having this in mind, a task analysis and screening procedure (ATS) was developed to consider age-related changes directly by planning and to avoid an overstraining in older people. With the conception and evaluation of ATS, a first basic approach could be generated to identify age-critical fields of activity in the product development and production process. Due to the comparison of work requirements and age-related abilities, it is possible to illustrate age-related spheres of activity and to infer design recommendations in order to design work systems in a corrective and conceptive way.
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Keil, M., Spanner-Ulmer, B. (2012). Conception and evaluation of an age-differentiated task analysis and screening Method. In: ElMaraghy, H. (eds) Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23860-4_29
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