The purpose of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries is to facilitate discovery, integration, and application of scientific knowledge about human aspects of manufacturing, and to provide a forum for worldwide dissemination of such knowledge for its application and benefit to manufacturing industries. The journal covers a broad spectrum of ergonomics and human factors issues with a focus on the design, operation and management of contemporary manufacturing systems, both in the shop floor and office environments, in the quest for manufacturing agility, i.e. enhancement and integration of human skills with hardware performance for improved market competitiveness, management of change, product and process quality, and human-system reliability. The inter- and cross-disciplinary nature of the journal allows for a wide scope of issues relevant to manufacturing system design and engineering, human resource management, social, organizational, safety, and health issues. Examples of specific subject areas of interest include: implementation of advanced manufacturing technology, human aspects of computer-aided design and engineering, work design, compensation and appraisal, selection training and education, labor-management relations, agile manufacturing and virtual companies, human factors in total quality management, prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, ergonomics of workplace, equipment and tool design, ergonomics programs, guides and standards for industry, automation safety and robot systems, human skills development and knowledge enhancing technologies, reliability, and safety and worker health issues.

E D I T O R
 LING ROTHROCK (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA)
Associate Editors
 OLE BROBERG (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark)
 LORA CAVUOTO (The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA)
 ALAN CHAN (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 CLIVE D'SOUZA (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
 MARY FENDLEY (Wright State University, Dayton, USA)
 RAVINDRA (RAVI) GOONETILLEKE (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
 CRAIG HARVEY (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA)
 JUNG HYUP KIM (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA)
 JOHN D. LEE (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
 ZHIZHONG LI (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
 CHEN LING (University of Akron, Akron, USA)
 LIANG MA (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
 DAVID NEYENS (Clemson University, Clemson, USA)
 JIANWEI NIU (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
 PATRICIA ORDONEZ DE PABLOS (University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain)
 PAUL SALMON (University of Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia)
 DONGMIN SHIN (Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea)
 CHANGXU WU (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)
 TING XIA (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA)
 JAMES YANG (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA)
 HEECHEON YOU (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)
 RUIFENG YU (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
 Editorial Board
 KUSHAL ABHYANKAR (Vantiv LLC, Cincinnati, USA)
 TAREQ AHRAM (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA)
 NABIL ALMUNAWAR (University of Brunei Darussalam, ‎Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei)
 PATRICK DEMPSEY (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, D.C, USA)
 KASPER EDWARDS (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
 MARY FENDLEY (Wright State University, Fairborn, USA)
 THOMAS K. FERRIS (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA)
 ANDY FREIVALDS (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA)
 SUBHASHINI GANAPATHY (Wright State University, Fairborn, USA)
 WONIL HWANG (Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea)
 LAURA IKUMA (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA)
 YONG GU JI (Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)
 BERNARD JIANG (National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taipei, Taiwan)
 MANIAM KALIANNAN (The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Semenyih, Malaysia)
 HENRIJS KALKIS (Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia) 
 ZIHO KANG (University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA)
 WALDEMAR KARWOWSKI (University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA)
 EUNSIK KIM (University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada)
 RICK KOUBEK (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA)
 SANGWON LEE (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea)
 JINGWEN LI (Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China)
 KANG LI (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA)
 DAHAI LIU (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
 LIANG MA (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
 NICOLAS MARMARS (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
 GARY MIRKA (Iowa State University, Ames, USA)
 HAJAH FADILAH PUTEH (MARA University of Technology, Shah Alam, Malaysia) 
 FRANCISCO REBELO (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)
 SARA RIGGS (Clemson University, Clemson, USA)
 DYLAN SCHMORROW (Soartech, Inc. Ann Arbor, USA)
 SIJUN SHEN (Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, USA)
 NICHOLAS STEVENS (University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia)
 WEI ZHANG (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
 XI ZHANG (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
 YIQI  ZHANG (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA)