Stefania Spada

Stefania Spada is Ergonomics Manager at Enlarged Europe, Wellbeing, Health & Safety in Stellantis and is responsible for defining and developing methods, procedures and tools, such as virtual simulations and physical checks in the Ergonomics laboratory, created and operational in the Mirafiori complex – Turin, focusing on the integration of these tools during the design phases of the workplaces in the process/product in the automotive reality.

Stefania Spada has a degree in Environmental and Territorial Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin and a Master's degree in Ergonomics from the University of Naples Federico II. She is Eur Erg - European Ergonomist - CREE professional title. She worked for Pirelli, as a Safety and Environment Officer in the Protection and Prevention Service of the Industrial Vehicles production plant in Settimo Torinese. From 2006 to 2007 she worked at the Fiat Research Center, in the Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Department, as a Process Ergonomist with the aim of developing new ergonomic methodologies and applications for production processes. Since 2007 she has been responsible for the Ergonomics Department in Fiat/FCA Italy, now Stellantis Europa.

Main publications in industry magazines in the last 5 years:
“On the use of Virtual Reality for a human-centered workplace design” - F. Caputo, A. Greco, E. D'Amato, I. Notaro, S. Spada. - Procedia Structural Integrity (Volume 8, 2018, 297-308); 2018
“Human Posture Tracking System for Industrial Process Design and Assessment” - Caputo F., Greco A., D'Amato E., Notaro I, Spada S. - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Volume 722, pp. 450-455); 2018
"Work 4.0. The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the transformations of work activities. Chapter "Ergonomics and Industry 4.0 in the automotive sector" - Various Authors (Spada, S.) - FIRENZE UNIVERSITY PRESS (Studies and Essays, pp.455-46); 2018
“Simulation techniques for ergonomic performance evaluation of manual workplaces during preliminary design phase” - F. Caputo, A. Greco, M. Fera, G. Caiazzo, S. Spada. - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Volume 822, pp.170-180); 2019
“ Imu-based motion capture wearable system for ergonomic assessment in industrial environments.” F. Caputo, A. Greco, E. D'Amato, I. Notaro, S. Spada. - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Volume 795, pp. 215-225); 2019
“Experimental evaluation of the proto-MATE, a novel ergonomic upper-limb exoskeleton for reducing the worker's physical strain” - Pacifico I., Scano A., Guanziroli E., Moisé F., Morelli L., Chiavenna A., Romo D., Spada S., Colombina G., Molteni F., Giovacchini F., Vitiello N., Crea S. - IEEE Robotics and Automatics Magazine; 2019
“New Manual of Industrial Ergonomics” - Baracco.A, Bechis M., Spada S. - CSAO – Turin; 2019
“Ergonomics & Safety. The case of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles” - Spada S., Ghibaudo L., Cencetti S. - Environment and Safety (Magazine); 2020
“ERGONOMIC DESIGN OF WORK PROCESSES FOR THE PREVENTION OF BIOMECHANICAL OVERLOAD RISK OF THE UPPER LIMBS: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROLE OF THE ERGO-ANALYST” - Colombini D., Occhipinti E., Mezzopera A., Placci M., Cerbai M., Casado EA, Spada S., Ghibaudo L., Negro C., Corbanese L., Giusto F. - Environment and Safety (Journal); 2020
“Exoskeletons in Automotive Industry: Investigation into the Applicability Across Regions” - Carnazzo C., Spada S., Ghibaudo L., Eaton L., Fajardo I., Shi Zhu, Cavatorta MP - 21th World Congress on Ergonomics, IEA 2021, Vancouve; 2021
“Organization of work and management of cycle times (micro-recoveries) and rest times (macro-recoveries) for the purpose of reducing the risk of biomechanical overload at work through application experiences.” - Daniela Colombini, Enrico Occhipinti, Marco Placci, EPM IES-Milan Italy; Stefania Spada, Lidia Ghibaudo, FCA Italy SpA; Ciro Negro, Baxi -Italy; Luana Corbanese, Francesco Giusto, Electrolux Susegana-Italy; Enrique Alvarez, CENEA - EPMIES-Barcelona- Spain" – Special edition Environment and Safety (Magazine); 2021