BRUZZONE , Alessandro A.

Despite increasing automation levels and digital solutions, production systems still very much rely on the inescapable contribution of the human factor. The changing relationship between man, the technological system and the organization framework together with the increased complexity result in high risks for workers' safety and their...

Manufacturing evolution provided more and more efficient techniques to extend the anthropometric capabilities of humans. From the Neolithic Revolution to the Digital Revolution, passing through Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, men invented new tools/systems to achieve objectives covering all the Maslow's hierarchy of needs:...