Sheviakov O.
Dr.Sc.(Ps.), Prof., Private Higher Educational Establishment «Dnipro
Humanitarian University», Head of the Department of Psychology, Dnipro, Ukraine
Blynova O.
Dr.Sc.(Ps.), Prof., Kherson State University, Head of the Department General
and Social Psychology, Kherson, Ukraine
PSYCHOLOGYCAL PROVISION OF PROCESSES MODERNIZATION
OF METALLURGICAL PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
Introduction. Difficult and strenuous conditions of the operator`s/ metallurgist`s
activity demand a due approach to the whole man-machine system optimization. This
approach must consider all the operator`s activity features (psychological ones first)
and include appropriate research methods and ergonomic planning ones.
The consideration of psychological factors in the development of new technical
means of activity and modernization of the available ones is an indispensable condition
to realize their economic efficiency.
Analysis of recent researches and publications. The methodological basis of
the research was G. Zarakovsky`s ergonomic providing concept of the men-machine
system development and exploitation [8].
The problem of increasing the efficiency of the “Rolling-Mill” man-machine
system operating isn`t new. As a result of the analysis of some theories which concern
rolling-mill operator`s activities and were published in different time researches, we
can distinguish some real-life approaches to the issue. A technological approach is
aimed at the local automatization and the commitment of the rolling mill during a shift
as well as at the idle times of the rolling mill and their reasons. A sanitary and hygienic
one is aimed at the assessment of the complexity and tension in rolling-mill operator`s
activity. And an ergonomic approach is mostly reduced to the rationalization of control
panels and organization of work stations. Foreign researchers (G. Bedny [1], I. Brito
[2], A. Chapanis [3], I. Foley [4], G. Thu [6]) define technology features and the level
of management automation as the external determinants of psychological tension and
stressful factors in the activity of metallurgical unit operators. An analysis of modern
foreign ergonomic and psychological literature revealed the presence of theoretical
assumptions of the operator`s activity optimization in different countries (G.
Zarakovsky [8]). The ergonomic direction of metallurgists` activity optimization,
which developed fragmentary in Ukraine and China, continues our research.
Operators of continuous broadband rolling mills have been examined in two
countries. The research was conducted under production conditions of the Dnipro
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