Ergonomic Analysis In Improving The Process Of Assembling Woven Bags

Agus Salim, Muhammad Aizat Afiq (2019) Ergonomic Analysis In Improving The Process Of Assembling Woven Bags. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Industrial manufacturing consist of manual assembling process especially in the packaging section. Manual assembling require human nature to done the task. A good workstation provide a comfortable facilities and equipment considering ergonomics principle. However, a poor ergonomics can have an adverse effect where injury might happen due to Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) injuries or pain in the human musculoskeletal system, including the joints, ligaments, muscles, nerves, tendons, and structures that support limbs, neck and back pain can occur. Implementing ergonomic factor in industry can make the worker more comfortable to perform their works with a better satisfaction. Ergonomic factor also motivate their productivity as well. A company located at Cheng Melaka , Assess Product Shd Bhd manufacturing Polypropylene Woven Bags (PP Bags) is supplier to domestic agricultural institutions both in the Government as well as private sectors having the some issues. After make an observation and discussion with the supervisor, the most critical task is the manual assembling of woven bags at the packaging section. The aim of this study is to analyse improvement for manual assembly processing of woven bags at the packaging section. The improvement of ergonomic towards the workstation will be utilize by using anthropometry measurement data to redesign the workstation system follow the average measurement of the operator. Different body posture have been study during assembling task by the operator. The result of their work posture being conduct by using RULA (Rapid Upper Limb Analysis) analysis that might having a bad score of work posture. The result of RULA analysis require for the human modelling to observe the injury occur at the common body part of the operator after a day work. From the analysis, a new addition of component or recommended method that can help the operator to solve the problem during the manual process assembling of woven bags.

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