A basic study on analysis of heart rate variability in workers for dynamic production management in cellular manufacturing systems

The objective of this study is to develop a new method for predicting the processing times of workers in cellular manufacturing systems. In our previous researches, a statistical approach was proposed for predicting the processing times of workers. However, the predicted processing times may not always coincide with the actual processing times since there are individual differences of the learning levels for workers and the decrease ratio of processing times of workers. Therefore, the new method uses the individual biological information such as the heart rate variability in workers in order to estimate the individual difference of learning levels of workers.