Work Study and Ergonomics

Work Study and Ergonomics

Author: Lakhwinder Pal Singh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1107503361

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"Discusses the strategies to effectively use design in order to enhance human well-being and work efficiency"--


Work Study and Ergonomics

Work Study and Ergonomics

Author: Lakhwinder Pal Singh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1316675440

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This book covers the fundamental concepts of work study and ergonomics in a single volume. It discusses the theories of human physiology and cognitive sciences, and evaluates the application of these theories to design a work environment that optimizes work potential and reduces threats of work-related disorders. It provides strategies to design effective work processes and a congenial work environment in order to enhance human well-being and efficiency. The book also explains the ergonomic tools and techniques including biomechanics, work posture assessment tools, anthropometry and work physiology. Using live examples from the industry, the author discusses the principles of work study including string diagram, method study, work sampling and man-machine system. The book demonstrates why it is important to 'fit the job to the man' rather than continuing with conventional practices that 'fit the man to the job'.


Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity

Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity

Author: D.R. Kiran

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2020-02-12

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0128203927

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Work Organization and Methods Engineering for Productivity provides an introduction to, and practical advice on, assessing methods of working to achieve maximum output and efficiency. The main focus of the book is on the 'work study', which helps to increase the productivity of men, machines and materials. We are currently seeing a lot of disruptive advancement in industrial operations caused by technologies, including artificial intelligence and IoT. Against this technological backdrop, and with ever increasing focus on value, the fundamental understanding of how to analyze and organize the workplace for productivity is more important than ever. Case studies and illustrations throughout make this book a much have for managers with responsibility for production and planning in industry. - Helps the reader understand the fundamental factors affecting productivity, along with their relevance to work organization - Includes valuable industry case studies from sectors including manufacturing, textile production and sea port operations - Includes several formats and charts that are important in the recording of data for practical work studies


Production Ergonomics

Production Ergonomics

Author: Cecilia Berlin

Publisher: Ubiquity Press

Published: 2017-06-28

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1911529137

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Production ergonomics – the science and practice of designing industrial workplaces to optimize human well-being and system performance – is a complex challenge for a designer. Humans are a valuable and flexible resource in any system of creation, and as long as they stay healthy, alert and motivated, they perform well and also become more competent over time, which increases their value as a resource. However, if a system designer is not mindful or aware of the many threats to health and system performance that may emerge, the end result may include inefficiency, productivity losses, low working morale, injuries and sick-leave. To help budding system designers and production engineers tackle these design challenges holistically, this book offers a multi-faceted orientation in the prerequisites for healthy and effective human work. We will cover physical, cognitive and organizational aspects of ergonomics, and provide both the individual human perspective and that of groups and populations, ending up with a look at global challenges that require workplaces to become more socially and economically sustainable. This book is written to give you a warm welcome to the subject, and to provide a solid foundation for improving industrial workplaces to attract and retain healthy and productive staff in the long run.


Work Study and Ergonomics

Work Study and Ergonomics

Author: P. C. Tewari

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138049550

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Productivity enhancement for sustenance of industry can be achieved by using industrial engineering principles such as Work Study and Ergonomics. These have been addressed in this book in order to develop better understanding of the subject pertaining to topics such as productivity, work and method study with measurements and ergonomics.


Ergonomics

Ergonomics

Author: K. Murrell

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9400958781

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Until quite recently conditions in industry were often rough. Long hours were worked in insanitary and murky workshops, often with little regard to the effects upon the workpeople who were considered to be expendable. Now, however, these adverse conditions have been recognized and so remedied that there remains little in industrial conditions to disturb the public conscience. This does not mean that conditions of work in office or factory are perfect. The obvious and dramatic abuses of the human frame may have gone, but in their place have arisen stresses and strains which, taking effect only in the long term, are generally undramatic and often unrecognized. They exist none the less. No organized effort to study the effect of working conditions on man's performance was made until the end of World War I, when the Industrial Fatigue Research Board was set up. For the first time, men trained in the human sciences entered industry to study men at work. They made con tributions which set a new standard of scientific investigation into human performance and allowed executive action on the basis of evidence rather than of hunch. The Board's work differed from the contribution of Gilbreth in America in that the principles of Motion Study which he developed were, to a large extent, based on intelligent observation rather than controlled experiment. During the 1920S the National Institute of Industrial Psychology was founded and there was close collaboration between it and the I.F.R.B.


Ergonomics Of Working Postures

Ergonomics Of Working Postures

Author: E. N. Corlett

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1986-10-09

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0203489748

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This book is based on an international symposium on the Ergonomics of Working Postures, at Zadar. It explores fairly specific areas of occupational ergonomics with the purpose of drawing together major current trends.


Fundamentals of Work Measurement

Fundamentals of Work Measurement

Author: Anil Mital

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-10-03

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1498745830

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This book will provide a quick reference on Work Measurement. While the nature of the work may differ, measuring work is fundamental to any industrial or service activity. It’s needed to determine such things as the amount a person should be paid, how much time should it take to perform an activity, what is an acceptable days’ work, or how any two or more methods or designs compare. This book provides non-industrial engineers with the why and the how work is measured in order to perform their jobs.