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Publisher Summary This chapter serves as a starting point that both highlights significant issues as well as identifies practical aspects of crew station design and integration. Clearly, crew station design and integration is not a standalone effort, nor is it a final check on human performance after the rest of the system is designed. It is also not simplistic or linear. The first step is the recognition that the crew is an integral part of the larger system. When done well, it considers the crew in all aspects and phases of system design through an iterative and cyclical process. It involves a series of trade-offs and decisions achieved through analysis, test, evaluation and demonstration. In the end, it is about good business and good engineering. Three themes emerge from this chapter. The first is a historical context of the last 30 years of crew station evolution representing first commercial and then military crew stations. A second theme revolves around the issues that significantly impact crew station design. It focuses specifically on competing constraints and on the growth of information management and integration complexity. Finally, the third theme is a discussion of tools and methods for design and integration. |
