Productivity improvement through re-design workplace area

For industrial use, ergonomics has traditionally been used to solve the injuries problem from repetitive motion, prolonged postures, and some other physical risks. However, the utility of ergonomics is not just only limited to solve the injuries problem. Good ergonomics investment also can be applie...

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Main Author: Lim, Tien Yong
Format: Undergraduates Project Papers
Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling ump-83212015-11-16T08:10:22Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8321/ Productivity improvement through re-design workplace area Lim, Tien Yong TS Manufactures For industrial use, ergonomics has traditionally been used to solve the injuries problem from repetitive motion, prolonged postures, and some other physical risks. However, the utility of ergonomics is not just only limited to solve the injuries problem. Good ergonomics investment also can be applied to improve productivity. This project are carried out at Sidmann Composite Sdn Bhd. The Objective of this project are propose a new workplace with ergonomics features for Sidmann Composite Sdn. Bhd. to reduce the level of musculoskeletal risks of the workplace and improve the production process’s cycle time. In order to ensure the objectives are met. A comprehensive data collection was divided into three phase, such as phase one is to perform up-front analysis, phase two is to determine the existing working process risk and operational impact, phase three is to estimate proposed working process risk and operational impact. The assessment was carried out by Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) and Strain Index (SI) to assess the level of musculoskeletal risk in this company. Methods-Time Measurement (MTM) was used to determine the labor time for the performing task improvement. Finally, existing process and proposed process was compared in this project. 2013-06 Undergraduates Project Papers NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8321/1/cd8225_78.pdf Lim, Tien Yong (2013) Productivity improvement through re-design workplace area. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang. http://iportal.ump.edu.my/lib/item?id=chamo:81945&theme=UMP2
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Productivity improvement through re-design workplace area
description For industrial use, ergonomics has traditionally been used to solve the injuries problem from repetitive motion, prolonged postures, and some other physical risks. However, the utility of ergonomics is not just only limited to solve the injuries problem. Good ergonomics investment also can be applied to improve productivity. This project are carried out at Sidmann Composite Sdn Bhd. The Objective of this project are propose a new workplace with ergonomics features for Sidmann Composite Sdn. Bhd. to reduce the level of musculoskeletal risks of the workplace and improve the production process’s cycle time. In order to ensure the objectives are met. A comprehensive data collection was divided into three phase, such as phase one is to perform up-front analysis, phase two is to determine the existing working process risk and operational impact, phase three is to estimate proposed working process risk and operational impact. The assessment was carried out by Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) and Strain Index (SI) to assess the level of musculoskeletal risk in this company. Methods-Time Measurement (MTM) was used to determine the labor time for the performing task improvement. Finally, existing process and proposed process was compared in this project.
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author Lim, Tien Yong
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title Productivity improvement through re-design workplace area
title_short Productivity improvement through re-design workplace area
title_full Productivity improvement through re-design workplace area
title_fullStr Productivity improvement through re-design workplace area
title_full_unstemmed Productivity improvement through re-design workplace area
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publishDate 2013
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8321/
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