Rationalizing manufacturing work station: a case study

Abstract

Small and medium size enterprises often encounter problems in managing and operating production system effectively and efficiently, which result in losing their competitive advantages. It is, therefore, essential to suggest applicable methods to solve these problems completely and inexpensively. Purposely, an application of work design and standardization process to rationalize manufacturing work station would be proposed. A case study at a furniture company is presented as an example. It aims to create a scientific workstation with standardized operations to help worker get more comfortable, and increase productivity, quality and safety. An implementation of proposed method at a workstation of a furniture company brings promising results. A new workstation is redesigned more effectively in terms of comfortableness, safety, and the productivity increasing 15%.