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Purpose

It is sufficient with the repetition of the simple work by the memory, if it is a simple routine work that was unformalized like assembly lines in a mass-production process. However, many work on the real world require specialized knowledge and force a user refer a manual. In this research, a work ranges desktop inspections for electronic circuit boards. This kind of electronic inspection work requires the deep knowledge and observation regarding electronics. The purpose that demonstrated by being constructing a support system and take up such work is in the following points.

  1. Construction of the work environment that does not require specialized knowledge.
  2. Prevention of human errors.

All of a manual information is stored in a computer to construct to work environment that does not require specialized knowledge. A user does not need to memorize a manual and to refer that takes the correspondence between a figure and a target. A supporting environment prevents workers' failures that which come from their misunderstanding and mistakes by using visual presentation of instructions and automatic confirmation by the environment.



Yoshihiro Ban (yosihi-b@is.aist-nara.ac.jp)
Wednesday, September 9, 1998