What Engineers and Managers Need to Know About Human Factors

Gabriel, Richard F.

doi:10.4271/r-331

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“…Widespread prevalence of MSDs in today's manufacturing scenario justifies need to design production systems that fit workers' structural and functional anthropometry. Reduced frequency and severity of accidents, improved job performance, fewer days lost to injuries, improved user acceptance, improved efficiency, improved effectiveness, reduced design and manufacturing costs, increased standardization, shorter training time, protection from litigation, greater job satisfaction, less employee turnover, less user fatigue are some of immense benefits of proactive ergonomics [45], which manufacturing industries in industrially developing countries can/should utilize with help of DHM as a lack of published literatures in framework of manufacturing workstations/shop floor in industrially developing countries is observed. Ergonomic evaluations by exploring what if scenarios with quick information by providing details about population capabilities and specific outputs with reference to specific design attributes of interest greatly benefit engineers and designers [38] in design of human centered manufacturing workstations.…”

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DHM an Aid for Virtual Ergonomics of Manufacturing Shop Floor: A Review with Reference to Industrially Developing Countries

Sanjog¹,

Karmakar²,

Patel³

et al. 2012

IJCA

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Manufacturing strategies adopted by majority of industries in third world/industrially developing countries especially in India and China are still far from world class practices. Competition due to entry of multinational companies is forcing them to turn their attention to seek improvements for long term survival and associated benefits. Ergonomics, more specifically computer aided ergonomics finds a low level of acceptance in manufacturing industries and thus results in poorly designed work system/place, low productivity and prevalence of musculoskeletal problems in industrial workforce. Taking these facts into consideration an effort has been made through extensive literature review to highlight relevance of digital Human Modeling Software (DHMS) as a tool for evaluating, improving existing/ proposed manufacturing workstation/ workplace, and its associated tasks. Attempt has also been made to encourage manufacturing industries (including small and medium scale industries that are unaware of this technology) in developing countries to focus their attention towards this exceptionally useful tool for their betterment. It is strongly recommended that industrial/ production engineers can certainly without any doubt advocate use of DHM as an indispensible tool for developing human centered manufacturing work station/ workplace and harness its benefits.

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confidence: 99%