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Enhancing Ergonomics in Automotive Cylinder Head Manual Lapping: Workstation Assessment and Design

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Title Enhancing Ergonomics in Automotive Cylinder Head Manual Lapping: Workstation Assessment and Design
 
Creator Joshi, Mangesh
Deshpande, Vishwas
 
Subject Anthropometry
CATIA –V5
Musculoskeletal disorder
Rapid upper limb assessment
Workstation improvement
 
Description 915-924
Human factors play a vibrant part in advancing health and yield at factories. In the last 20 years, ergonomic practitioners
have given importance to reshaping the workroom. Indian businesses have also initiated reshaping their workroom to avoid
several Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSD) and grievances. In this background, the project has been carried
out in an automotive reconditioning workshop located in Nagpur and Pune. The ergonomic risk associated with WMSD was
recognized by a comprehensive questionnaire, which was received from 18 experienced workers engaged in cylinder head
Manual lapping activity. It was found that virtually all lapping workers were continuously suffering from some kind of
WMSD. Based on the anthropometric data of 50 percentile Indian males, ergonomic evaluation, reshaping the existing
workplace, and evaluation of a new workstation were carried out in CATIA-V5 software. To check the correction of the
design, Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) for both existing as well as proposed lapping workstations was performed.
This study shows that improving workstations with a structured improvement framework approach decreases the disparity
between man and machine and makes the workplace comfortable for work.
 
Date 2023-09-02T11:50:08Z
2023-09-02T11:50:08Z
2023-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0022-4456 (Print); 0975-1084 (Online)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/62493
https://doi.org/10.56042/jsir.v82i9.504
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source JSIR Vol.82(09) [September 2023]