Modelling and simulation and ergonomic standards as support tools for a workstation design in manufacturing system

Cimino, Antonio; Mirabelli, G.

doi:10.1504/ijspm.2009.027435

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“… 3.1.6 128 ) Japan 2008 Use of virtual reality and posture evaluation with the OWAS. 3.1.6 129 ) Italy 2008 Use of simulation and modelling together with the OWAS method for the ergonomic design of a job. 3.1.6 127 ) South Korea 2008 Use of the OWAS to analyse postures represented by the digital human model.…”

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“…This same model was used by several authors 127 ) in an assembly task in the automobile industry, with the difference that in addition to the OWAS, they used RULA and REBA. Similarly, but with other computer programs of human/digital-space modelling, the OWAS was applied in industrial activities 128 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 133 ) . The tool enables the subsequent evaluation to correct the worker by the mouse or keyboard.…”

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Musculoskeletal disorders: OWAS review

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The prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) is very important in the world. Governments and companies are the most interested. The objective of the present work is to review the literature on the applications of the OWAS method in the diverse sectors or fields of knowledge and countries from its publication to March 2017. The use of OWAS method has been classified by categories of knowledge, by country and by year. The search was made by selecting only the main collection of the Web of Science. This was selected by the option “Advanced search” using the term OWAS (ts=OWAS) for the time period of 1900 to 2017. A total of 166 results were found, consisting of conference papers and articles in scientific journals. In conclusion, the OWAS has been applied mainly in two sectors: “Manufacturing industries” and “Healthcare and Social assistance activities”. This method needs to be complemented with other indirect or direct methods. Also, whenever the OWAS has been used, whether individually or together with other methods, musculoskeletal disorders risks have been detected, this perhaps being an indicator to review the evaluation parameters because overestimating the risk.

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Musculoskeletal disorders: OWAS review

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“…For this reason, researchers and practitioners very often use simulation as problem solving methodology for creating an artificial history of the system, analyzing its behaviour, choosing correctly, understanding why, diagnosing problems and exploring possibilities (Banks, 1998). Example of research works that propose the effective design of indutrial workstations using Modeling & Simulation tools are Bruzzone (1996), Wilson (1997), Feyen et al (2000), , Bruzzone and Williams (2004), Santos et al (2007) and Cimino et al (2009b), Cimino and Mirabelli (2009), Longo and Mirabelli (2009).…”

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Industrial workstations design: a real case study

Cimino

Mirabelli

2011

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The research work advances the effective design of the most critical workstations belonging to a real industrial plant; to this end, the authors propose an approach based on the integration of Modeling & Simulation tools, several ergonomic standards and the most known work measurement tools. The Modeling and simulation tools allow to implement a three-dimensional environment capable of recreating, with satisfactory accuracy, the evolution over the time of the real workstations. The ergonomic standards consent to evaluate the ergonomic risks level within the system being considered. The work measurement tools permit to calculate the time required for performing all the workstations operations. The effective design of the workstations is achieved by using the simulation model for comparing workstations' alternative configurations. The comparison is based on ergonomic and time indexes related to the ergonomic standards and the work measurement tools. Such comparison allows to choose the workstations final configurations.

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Modelling and simulation and ergonomic standards as support tools for a workstation design in manufacturing system

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Musculoskeletal disorders: OWAS review

Musculoskeletal disorders: OWAS review

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