ABSTRACT 

Boeing has been working through an advancement in its safety programs, with the biggest concerns during the production processes such as safety (collision, accident, etc.) and health (injury prevention, fall, etc.). Market available wearable technologies have been evaluated, tested, and implemented to identify, mitigate, and resolve the issues for many years through transforming Boeing’s paradigm shift from Reactive to Proactive Safety Assurance strategy. Well-planned deployment of wearable sensors provided meaningful information for developing risk mitigation solutions, though. There are different sensors for different applications and no single solution could resolve all problems. This presentation illustrates the examples of recent wearable technologies tested and implemented.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Dongjoon ‘D’J Kong is a Technical Fellow in Industrial Engineering (IE) at the Boeing Company. He has been working with the BCA IE Multi-program Engineering team supporting all BCA Programs and Enterprise projects since he joined the Boeing company since 2007. He has 40-years of experiences in Industrial Engineering field across academia, research institutes, and industries and 50+ publications including peer-reviewed journal papers, conference papers, book chapters. DJ was an Assistant Professor with the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is currently working on improving the ergonomic issues via testing and implementing wearable technologies. Dr. Kong received BS IE and MS IE from Seoul National University in Seoul, S. Korea and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.