Ergonomics as a Social Component of Sustainable Lot-sizing: A Review

Abstract

Lot-sizing has an increased attention in recent years. In the area of production planning and control, this trend has given rise to the development of lot-sizing models that considers sustainability issues besides the optimization of total operational cost. The study is based on tertiary study that is ensured to analyze the total work have been published. The research was conducted by the definition of appropriate keywords for understanding sustainability issues and ergonomics as a social component in lot-sizing. The paper at hand attempts to understand the development of sustainability issues in lot-sizing and ergonomics as a social component in lotsizing. We observe that studies focusing on all three dimensions of sustainability are comparatively scarce. However, only a few of the studies have been covered the social sustainability aspect. It is observed that studies addressing ergonomics issues are scarce, and more focus is required on the social sustainability impacts along the supply chain and lot-sizing. Most of ergonomic assessment covered relaxation allowance and energy expenditure rate, OWAS, NIOSH and another consideration about ergonomic lot-sizing is the motion types investigated by authors which were picking, storing as a lifting and carrying motions and did not covered pushing, pulling, bending and other hand motions which have positive relationship with work related musculoskeletal disorders. Finally, we propose future directions to extend research on the ergonomics in lot-sizing.

An Analysis of Research Trends in the Sustainability of Production Planning

“…Moreover, they concluded that most articles mainly focused on job allocation and sequencing more than any other planning problem. Bóna and Korkulu [20] addressed only one production problem, i.e., lot-sizing and its impact on social sustainability. Thus, the contribution of this work stems from the existing literature gaps.…”

Development of a Lot-Sizing Model to Prevent Heat Stress and Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders

“…Primarily, researchers extensively investigated the economic and environmental aspects of sustainability [7]. However, there are few contributions regarding the social sustainability aspects [11]. Battini et al [14] have investigated designing the assembly system with ergonomics, and they have found that assessing time efficiency in modern industries design of assembly system and ergonomics should go hand in hand.…”

“…Because of To express the mean work rate in Watt, MWR will be multiplied with 1 Watt=69.77 kcal/min as suggested by the ISO 80000-5 [42]. MWR is calculated with the metabolic rate equations (kcal/min) presented by Garg et al [35] (Equations [10][11][12][13] where BW is the body weight in kilograms, V is the speed of walking in m/s, G is the grade of the walking surface, S is a decision variable based on the gender of the worker (M/F=1/0). Finally, the total rest time can then be defined as follows: , , T q T q T q T q T q T q otherwise total rest h eat rest r est total rest r est heat rest…”

“…The environmental and economic sustainability aspects have particularly been studied extensively [8][9][10]. According to Korkulu and Bona [11], there are few contributions regarding the social sustainability aspect in the logistics systems [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Most of the studies have focused on the human energy expenditure as an ergonomic aspect.…”

Ergonomi̇k Faktörleri̇n Çalişan Performansina Olan Etki̇leri̇

“…Bu açıdan örgütsel çalışmaların içerisinde yer alan birimlerin efektif ve etkin bir şekilde çalışabilmesi için bilgi transfer yöntemlerinin ergonomi alanında kullanılmasının gerekliliğini belirtmişlerdir (Boatca, Draghici, & Carutasu, 2018). Günümüzde ise ergonominin tedarik zinciri ve toplu sipariş mekanizmaları da ele alınmasıyla, kota, enerji giderleri gibi temel makro parametreler ve kas iskelet sistemi, hareketler gibi diğer teknik parametrelerde ergonominin değerlendirme kriteri kapsamına alınmıştır (Korkulu & Bóna, 2019 (Zink, 2000).…”