An attempt and issues to measure workers' aptitude toward assembly tasks in production cells

Dong, Yanwen; Hao, Xiying; Sato, Shinya; Kumar, Vinod

doi:10.1109/liss.2015.7369751

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“…Kasumo et al [5] considered buffer stations for shared tasks among the divided cells and discussed the conditions required to maximize their effects. Dong et al [6] designed a self-evaluation sheet to measure workers' aptitude to investigate how aptitude affects the productivity of assembly tasks in production cells. Recently, collaboration of human and robot workers has been attempted to improve the productivity in cell production [7].…”

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Effect of Instructions on Parts' Positions during an Assembly Task on Efficiency and Workload

Matsushita

Niwa

Ito

et al. 2017

SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration

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: This paper examines the effect of instructions on parts' positions during an assembly task having numerous parts for someone to remember where they are located. Hypothesizing that instructions relating to the positions of the parts would enhance work efficiency and reduce workload, we designed an experimental method to test this theory. In this experiment using educational blocks, visual instructions were given by illuminating the space where the parts are kept, while auditory instructions were provided to aid locating the parts to compare the efficiency of visual and auditory instructions. Experiments with six participants showed that the visual instruction significantly shortened not only the search time but also the assembly time (which was one way in which efficiency was assessed in this study). The use of parts' positions instructions tended to reduce the workload as evaluated with NASA-TLX compared with the cases without instructions.

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Effect of Instructions on Parts' Positions during an Assembly Task on Efficiency and Workload

Matsushita

Niwa

Ito

et al. 2017

SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration

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“…We have designed a self-evaluation sheet to measure the workers' aptitude from the viewpoints of the deftness and the ability for fine work, and our previous researches demonstrated that it is necessary to apply the valuable results in the field of industrial and organizational psychology [8]. In this paper, we design a new selfevaluation sheet from three viewpoints: growth-need strength, self-efficacy and core self-evaluation to measure the workers' aptitude.…”

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Identifying Factors Reflecting Workers’ Aptitude toward Assembly Tasks in Production Cells

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2017

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Although major studies on cell production have put the emphasis on technical factors such as machine order/layout, family part grouping, workflow sequence, etc., it has been found that for successful implementation of cell production systems, some human issues should be treated seriously. One of these issues is that productivity of production cells depend largely on workers and therefore it is important to consider how to measure workers' aptitude and investigate how workers' aptitude affect the productivity of production cells. In this paper, we make an experimental study to identify factors influencing workers' aptitude toward assembly tasks and productivity in production cells. Our study is different from researches reported so far in that we carry out a laboratory experiment of cell production to measure the productivity of the workers in production cells. Meanwhile we designed a selfevaluation sheet to measure the workers' aptitude from three viewpoints: growth-need strength, self-efficacy and core self-evaluation. It was clarified that only one factor: growth-need strength has significant relations to productivity of the production cells, and there are some issues to be dealt further.  Index Terms-cell production, cellular manufacturing, growth-need strength, self-efficacy, workers' aptitude I. INTRODUCTION Cellular manufacturing, often called cell production in Japan, arranges factory floor labor into semi-autonomous and multi-skilled teams, or work cells, who manufacture complete products or complex components. Properly trained and implemented cells are more flexible and responsive than the traditional mass-production line. Cell production has become an integral part of lean manufacturing systems; many organizations have applied cell production concepts in manufacturing and service processes. The effects of cell production are including reduction in setup time, cycle time, tooling requirements and material handling. Furthermore, implementation of cell production has been shown to achieve significant improvements in product quality, scheduling, space utilization, control of operations and employee morale [1]. Over the past 30 years, many manufacturing companies are adopting a cellular manufacturing approach in an attempt to improve their competitiveness. Meanwhile, many researchers have paid a lot of attention to cell production system design problems, such as the

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An experiment to evaluate audio-visual instructions about parts position in an assembling task

Matsushita

Niwa

Ito

et al. 2016

2016 55th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE)

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An attempt and issues to measure workers' aptitude toward assembly tasks in production cells

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Effect of Instructions on Parts' Positions during an Assembly Task on Efficiency and Workload

Effect of Instructions on Parts' Positions during an Assembly Task on Efficiency and Workload

Identifying Factors Reflecting Workers’ Aptitude toward Assembly Tasks in Production Cells

An experiment to evaluate audio-visual instructions about parts position in an assembling task

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An attempt and issues to measure workers' aptitude toward assembly tasks in production cells

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Effect of Instructions on Parts&apos; Positions during an Assembly Task on Efficiency and Workload

Effect of Instructions on Parts&apos; Positions during an Assembly Task on Efficiency and Workload

Identifying Factors Reflecting Workers’ Aptitude toward Assembly Tasks in Production Cells

An experiment to evaluate audio-visual instructions about parts position in an assembling task

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Effect of Instructions on Parts' Positions during an Assembly Task on Efficiency and Workload

Effect of Instructions on Parts' Positions during an Assembly Task on Efficiency and Workload