Human Performance:

The main work of this research is based on human performance, its improvement, measurement and strategy in manufacturing systems design. Manufacturing System is one of the challenging and complex operation composed of large area of interactions between people, materials, machines, information and environment in the process of wide variety of products. Manufacturing system design and redesign is the continuous process which depends on the necessity to respond of rapidly changing of consumers’ needs, desires, and tastes. Organisations are currently meeting unexpectedly to compete in this continuously changing demand by enabling their flexibility to respond rapidly to meet new demands. These rapidly changing of customers demand always pressurised the organisation to change in their manufacturing facilities, technologies, methods, people and the products that they produce for the market. The managers and engineers who can learn from observations of successful organisation and can find guidance in recognised principles of good manufacturing system design. They can relate this knowledge to their own organisation by using structured analysis and design methods.
The performance of people which is generally based on environment within which they work, however this research purpose is to make the results adaptable to focus on performance factors of the readers or users choices. This research also provides the means for achieving performance in manufacturing systems which can manage the changes together with achieve flexibility in other hand. The results should be relevant in many different circumstances.This dissertation has been divided into three parts: The development of manufacturing systems design method, Improvement of human performance and the further development of manufacturing systems design strategy.