Improvement of productivity by implementing occupational ergonomics

Chintada, Anusha; Umasankar,

doi:10.1080/21681015.2021.1958936

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“…This finding is in line with prior research, e.g., refs. [45,46,[49][50][51] which claimed that ergonomics increases job performance. Workspaces that are thoughtfully planned, ergonomic seats, and correctly set up equipment all contribute to physical comfort, lowering the risk of discomfort, pain, or physical strain.…”

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How Is Job Performance Affected by Ergonomics in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry? Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Talent Retention

El-Sherbeeny,

Al-Romeedy,

Abd elhady

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Optimizing the interaction between individuals and their work environment has become increasingly relevant in enhancing employee well-being and driving the overall success of businesses. The goal of this study is to provide information about how ergonomics affects job performance in the tourism and hospitality industry. The full-time staff employees of Egypt’s category (A) travel agencies and five-star hotels were the source of the study’s data. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique of analysis was utilized to explore how ergonomics influences job performance while taking into account the mediating roles of work engagement and talent retention. WarpPLS statistical software version 7.0 was used to analyze the 389 valid replies obtained. The findings revealed that there is a positive relationship between the employees’ perception of ergonomics on their job performance, in addition to the positive relationships between the perception of ergonomics and work engagement and talent retention. The work engagement and talent retention were also found to have a positive relationship with job performance. Furthermore, research revealed that work engagement and talent retention act as mediators between ergonomics and job performance. The results of this research significantly advance the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model theory. The study also offers evidence-based recommendations to organizations in the tourism and hospitality industry, empowering them to establish supportive work environments that enhance the job performance, work engagement, and talent retention. Businesses in this industry could create work environments that prioritize the well-being, comfort, and safety of their employees by embracing ergonomic concepts.

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“…This reduces unnecessary movements and minimizes time wastage. As a result, tasks can be completed more swiftly and efficiently, leading to increased overall productivity and, consequently, improved job performance [49][50][51].…”

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How Is Job Performance Affected by Ergonomics in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry? Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Talent Retention

El-Sherbeeny,

Al-Romeedy,

Abd elhady

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…When elaborated, it allows the person's own self-learning. To generate a critical view aimed at detecting inconveniences, it is important that the PPL start to be put into practice in the first step of AM (Chintada and Umasankar V, 2022;Joochim and Meekaew, 2016) These lessons are classified as follows • Basic knowledge: summary of the necessary skills for the development of TPM and production activities that must be carried out daily • Improvement cases: aims to disseminate horizontally, summarized information about the measures adopted and their respective effects • Problem cases: aims to prevent recidivism, alerting to the main points on which attention should be focused • Others: they are used to present other situations that are considered relevant to the team itself or to other teams To verify the acquired competences, a competence matrix must be created, which indicates the current competence of each of the operators in the different areas, as well as the competence that is desired for them. Thus, allowing to provide the necessary skills to each of these Source(s): several visits were made to the factory, as well as to the transport and bulk handling area, where the conveyor belt operates, to look for waste, opportunities for improvement as well as collect data such as cycle time, daily availability, mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), among other parameters.…”

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Improving the performance of a conveyor belt through lean philosophy and Industry 4.0

Mendes

Navas²,

Charrua-Santos

2023

JQME

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PurposeThe purpose of this study was to develop and implement a new model to improve maintenance management and the production system through the concepts: maintenance, lean philosophy and Industry 4.0.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology employed in this study includes conducting a bibliographic survey of existing models exploring the joint application of the concepts under study, critically analyzing these models, developing a model proposal and subsequently analyzing the results obtained. The model is implemented on a belt conveyor of a feed mill to improve its performance.FindingsThe proposed model contributes to improve maintenance and production system management, proving to be a useful tool to improve real-time decision-making. After its application, it was possible to verify that it increased the performance of the conveyor belt, as well as improved the skills of the operators who operate on it.Research limitations/implicationsLimitation about the distance between the devices that make up the model. The implementation of autonomous maintenance can highlight some challenges within the company. The implementation was only in the belt conveyor, being useful to introduce this in the remaining areas of the factory.Originality/valueThe study presents an innovative, versatile, low-cost and easy-to-apply model to improve maintenance management by combining the three concepts. The model can be easily adapted to monitor condition parameters such as temperature, noise, among others, through the correct choice of devices and proper programming. This work also contributed to help in real-time decision-making for both the maintenance and production departments.

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“…Classical TPM [32] TPM is a methodology that comprises all maintenance policies, such as predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance, to reduce subsystem failures, reduce system downtime, and improve reliability and productivity.…”

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A Review of Sustainable Total Productive Maintenance (STPM)

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Sustainable Total Productive Maintenance (STPM) arose in 2021 as a promising, new concept to fill the lack of sustainability in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and allow companies to overcome its implementation barriers. It revolves around increasing the understanding of the systems approach and contributing to setting contemporary companies’ sustainable ideology by supporting orientation toward sustainability from a sustainable maintenance perspective. However, STPM is still in its infancy and is viewed as a complement to the traditional TPM approach and is based on its pillars. Moreover, there is still a dearth of literature discussing STPM. This study aims to present STPM as a novel substitute for TPM while building its unique mechanism based on re-engineered fourth generation management (R4thGM). To pursue such a goal, 94 papers from Scopus, Web of Science, and Science Direct databases published in 2008–2023 were reviewed. This study’s novelty comes from presenting STPM as the best-suited lean manufacturing and sustainability strategy for enhancing sustainable maintenance, encouraging contemporary maintenance (i.e., Industry 4.0 technology-based sustainable maintenance), and supporting second-era contemporary companies’ orientation toward sustainability. Furthermore, based on recent studies, propositions are formulated to achieve STPM. Finally, research implications and future directions are presented.

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Improvement of productivity by implementing occupational ergonomics

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

How Is Job Performance Affected by Ergonomics in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry? Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Talent Retention

How Is Job Performance Affected by Ergonomics in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry? Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Talent Retention

Improving the performance of a conveyor belt through lean philosophy and Industry 4.0

A Review of Sustainable Total Productive Maintenance (STPM)

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