Standardization factor in ergodesign

Abstract

The purpose of ergodesign activity is to optimize ergonomic and design requirements for objects, providing conditions for the formation of tools and ways to maintain the necessary comfort and operability of operators using the components of the designed systems or serving them. From these positions, it is advisable to design complete systems "man-technology-environment", and not just products or technical means, which only at the stage of their practical "adaptation" to a person become components of these systems. In the case of applying this approach, fundamentally new opportunities open up for increasing the efficiency of the operators' life activity and the functioning of systems in general. The development of ergodesign normative documents in various areas of human activity, but subordinate to the goals set in the first sentences of this annotation, is a determining factor in the successful implementation of these provisions.

The article defines the main directions of standardization and ergodesign development, analyzes the goals of the standards, in particular in the field of ergodesign, developed recently, and operating today. It has been proved that ergodesign requirements, indicators and measures are mandatory for accounting in project activities, and their regulation in the form of national design-ergonomic standards leads to a significant increase in the efficiency and culture of ergodesign, optimizes the generation of ergodesign ideas, developments. However, the extremely low education of practicing designers, ergodesign specialists in matters of standardization and, most importantly, the specifics of the application of regulatory documents in their professional activities, eliminates the positive aspects of rationing in ergodesign. The article substantiates the urgent need to carry out work on mastering the existing regulatory framework for the programs of the corresponding design and ergodesign specializations in higher educational institutions and the need for active information support of specialists with data on the introduction of both new ergodesign normative documents and the practical mastery of these standards, the specifics of ergodesign standardization generally. The authors briefly analyzed the specifics and contents of the main national design-ergonomic standards in force in Ukraine today, as well as the standards that establish the classification and typical nomenclature of design-ergonomic product quality indicators that govern industrial product quality control methods, general design and ergonomic requirements for certain types of objects and work places.

Key words: design, ergodesign, ergodesign development, design-ergonomic assessment, ergodesign requirements and indicators, standardization, harmonization, national ergodesign standards.