Redesign Of Drum Packing Workstation At Medium-Scaled Electrical Cables Manufacturer

Syafiqah Athirah, Abdul Razak (2013) Redesign Of Drum Packing Workstation At Medium-Scaled Electrical Cables Manufacturer. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Manufacturing of electrical cables require several processes such as drawing, stranding, laying-up, insulation, armouring, sheating and drum packing. This study focuses on the drum packing workstation in an electrical cable manufacturing company. In the existing workstation, the operators have to perform the drum packing process. This condition can contribute to low back pain to the operator. The objectives of this study are to assess psychophysical experience and working posture of operators, to redesign the drum packing workstation by considering information from the operators and the section leaders and to simulate the working posture of operators while performing drum packing process at the redesigned workstation. This study applied questionnaire survey, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) Analysis to determine the operators requirements, redesign the workstation and evaluate the working posture respectively. This study observed that the redesigned workstation able to improve working posture of the operator as the RULA score has reduced from 7 to 3 for the sub-process of picking wooden planks. Based on comparison results, this study concluded that the redesigned workstation proposed by this study has a significant improvement on working posture. For future work, this study suggests that fabrication and actual implementation of the redesigned workstation should be applied in the company.

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