Hardy Diagnostics Facility Redesign,
2011
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Hardy Diagnostics Facility Redesign, Jamie W. Lam
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
This senior project is a facilities design for the plate production room at Hardy Diagnostics. This project was completed using a systematic layout planning approach. The main reason for this redesign was to consolidate all plate line production into one room. This would ensure better visability for the managers. After the project was defined, the different departments were established and the relationships between those departments were found. The space requirements needed for those departments were then measured out to also include the aisle widths and any machinery or carts needed to complete each function. Having determined all requirements for this …
Design Of Assembly Lines With The Concurrent Consideration Of Productivity And Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders Using Linear Models,
2010
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Design Of Assembly Lines With The Concurrent Consideration Of Productivity And Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders Using Linear Models, Zhan Xu
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The productivity of assembly lines is considerably affected by the health condition of assembly workers, and work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are common occupational diseases among assembly workers due to repetitive motions or heavy working loads. The conventional approaches to decreasing WMSD risks in the assembly lines include slowing the work-pace or applying job rotations. These adjustments usually focus on individual assembly workers at the station level but not the work allocation among the workers at the whole assembly line level, and thus may decrease the line productivity. To avoid these negative effects, some research started considering ergonomic characteristics at the …
Ergonomic Methods To Improve Safety In The Construction Sector And Reduce Costs,
2010
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Ergonomic Methods To Improve Safety In The Construction Sector And Reduce Costs, Mona Barjasteh
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Many small construction companies have difficulty providing a safe working environment for their employees because of their lack of resources. There is a need to provide a manual for small construction companies employing 10 or fewer workers with the best ergonomic solutions of the top most common injuries. Accidents in the construction field are very high with nearly 175,00o nonfatal injuries and 1,121 deaths in 2002. The nonfatal cases occur 7.1 times per 100 full time workers, while serious injuries occur 2.8 times per 100 full time workers. This information reveled the importance of focusing on minor injuries in order …
Assessing Living Arrangements In Residential Halls,
2010
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Assessing Living Arrangements In Residential Halls, Romel Penaflor Auza
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Hundreds of thousands of high school graduates head off to college each fall not knowing the environment they'll be living in for the next four years. The factors that predict success in the academic, social, and personal aspect of these freshmen students' lives revolves around one aspect that is often times overlooked. Freshmen students are subjected to the fast paced lifestyle of college and often times they need to feel “at home”. Their personal space becomes a matter that is important to them in relation to their success in the three aspects of academic success, social integration, and personal health. …
The Use Of Factor Analysis In The Development Of Hand Sizes For Glove Design,
2010
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Use Of Factor Analysis In The Development Of Hand Sizes For Glove Design, Trevor M. Mclain
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Factor analysis was used to develop a more detailed description of the human hand to be used in the creation of glove sizes; currently gloves sizes are small, medium, and large. The created glove sizes provide glove designers with the ability to create a glove design that can provide fit to the majority of hand variations in both the male and female populations. The research used the American National Survey (ANSUR) data that was collected in 1988. This data contains eighty-six length, width, height, and circumference measurements of the human hand for one thousand male subjects and thirteen hundred female …
Recycling Made Easy: An Ergonomic Approach To Home Recycling And Trash Containers,
2010
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Recycling Made Easy: An Ergonomic Approach To Home Recycling And Trash Containers, Landon P. Boisclair
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
The purpose of this project is to create an ergonomically sound recycling/trash container, with the ultimate hope of making the recycling process easier and more intuitive, thereby increasing recycling rates. Currently, while there are many recycling/trash containers available for purchase, there is no product that has a design without glaring ergonomic flaws. An ergonomic design and product prototype was created as a part of this project, and was subsequently tested against a conventional prototype model. The data collected from the experiments conducted suggests that the new ergonomic model makes the waste disposal process and the container transportation process easier, while …
