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Increasing the degree of automation in a production system: Consequences for the physical workload

In English

Författare

  • Istvan Balogh
  • Kerstina Ohlsson
  • Gert-Åke Hansson
  • T Engstrom
  • Staffan Skerfving

Summary, in English

In spite of the continuous development of production systems work-related musculoskeletal disorders is still a large problem. One reason might be the difficulties in quantifying the ergonomic effects of interventions. In this paper ergonomic consequences of technical and organisational changes were quantified in a plant for producing slats for parquet flooring. Muscle activity, work postures and movements were assessed for neck/shoulders and upper limb by direct technical measurements at three generations of production lines. The physical workload for 31 operators at the manual, semi-automated and automated line was derived based on all existing work tasks. The work was characterised by moderate muscular loads, the 50th percentiles being 1.2-3.8%MVE for the neck/shoulder muscles, high repetitiveness and constant movements of the hands and a high prevalence of neck/shoulder disorders. There were statistically significant differences considering exposure levels between the work tasks within each line as well as between the lines. The semi-automated line implied reduced muscular load for all muscles registered but more constrained work postures. The automated line, on the other hand, required higher skills, offered less constrained postures, lower loads and repetitiveness for the hands as well as frequent changes between different physical load levels.

Publiceringsår

2006

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

353-365

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volym

36

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Nyckelord

  • work movements
  • musculoskeletal disorders
  • intervention
  • muscular load
  • work postures

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0169-8141