workcentered
Workcentered is an adjective used to describe approaches, systems, or analyses that place primary emphasis on work activities—the tasks, sequences, tools, and information flows that produce a result—rather than on a product, user, or environment in isolation.
In manufacturing and operations, a work-centered approach organizes production around work centers: physical or logical stations
In design and human factors, work-centered design analyzes the tasks people perform within a system. The aim
Relation to other approaches: Work-centered approaches can complement user-centered or task-centered methods. Critics worry that a
See also: workflow, ergonomics, human factors, task analysis, work center, production line, lean manufacturing.