The work described in the following thesis has been developed during an 8-month internship at FCA (FCA Italy S.p.A.) in Turin, under the supervision of Sebastiano Lamacchia. Dr. Lamacchia has worked for several years at the Fiat Research Centre as an expert of ergonomics applied to the industrial processes. He is currently covering multiple roles in World Class Manifacturing (WCM) and World Class Manifacturing Accademy (WCMA), both of which are FCA agencies. He is responsible for ergonomics standard applications training and works for contact and relationship with universities as well as in the development of technologies and application of virtual reality within the automotive industrial field.