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HOPS:Human and Organizational Factors in Industrial Planning, Scheduling and Control: 

HOPS: Human and Organizational Factors in Industrial Planning, Scheduling and Control Prof. Dr. Toni Wäfler University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland

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European COoperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research

COST Characteristics: 

Networking & Co-ordination Pan-European “Non-competitive” (pre-normative; environmental and cross-border problems; public utility) National Financing of Researchers – national responsibility Bottom-up / Flexible “A la carte” participation Multi-disciplinary: wide range of disciplines covered Open to wider cooperation COST Characteristics

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COST Member States  The 25 EU Member States EFTA Member States  Iceland  Norway  Switzerland  Candidate Countries  Bulgaria  Romania  Turkey  Other Countries  Serbia and Montenegro  Croatia  FYR of Macedonia (FYROM) COST Co-operating States  Israel COST Countries

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1971 TELECOMMUNI-CATIONS METEOROLOGY 1972 MATERIALS ENVIRONMENT 1973 INFORMATICS TRANSPORT 1979 OCEANOGRAPHY 1980 BIOTECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1982 MEDICINE 1983 SOCIAL SCIENCES 1991 URBAN CIVIL ENGINEERING 1992 CHEMISTRY FLUID DYNAMICS 1994 FORESTS and FORESTRY PRODUCTS 1995 PHYSICS NANOSCIENCE 2000 BIOMATERIALS COST Domains

HOPS: COST Action A29: 

HOPS: COST Action A29 Start date: 29.6.2004 End date: 28.6.2008 Researchers from 13 Countries: Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom Activities Two meetings in Brussels (2004) 1st Workshop in Montreux, Switzerland (03/2005) HOPS Track at ICPR-18, Salerno, Italy (08/2005) 2nd Workshop in Malta (10/2005) 3rd Workshop in Prague, Czech Republic (03/2006) 2 STSM’s; 2 further STSM’s planned

Main Objective: 

Main Objective The main objective of the Action is to increase the knowledge required for improving human performance in industrial planning, scheduling, and control (PSC).

Goals: 

Goals Basic Knowledge: cognitive, environmental (contextual) factors dynamics & complexity Generic Applicability: Framework integration, connectivity evaluation concept Specific Applicability: preconditions and change management generic vs. context-based

Organization (1): 

Organization (1)

Organization (2): 

Organization (2) Management Committee Core Group Toni Wäfler, Switzerland (chair) Jan Fransoo, Netherlands (vice chair) John Wilson, United Kingdom Three thematic working groups WG1: Distributed / collaborative PSC coordinated by Jan Holmström, Finland WG2: Decision support systems in PSC coordinated by Wout van Wezel, Netherlands WG3: Research methods in PSC coordinated by Martina Berglund, Sweden One technical working group HOPS web site managed by Wout van Wezel, Netherlands

Actions and Timeline: 

Actions and Timeline kickoff establishment and maintenance of web site project activities action workshops and action seminars progress reports concluding symposium

Contact: 

Contact Toni Wäfler University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland toni.waefler@fhso.ch