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The project focuses on work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the shoulder muscle in assembly operations. The given shoulder injury problem is encountered by a short operator in a manufacturing assembly operation. The project aims to provide a solution to reduce shoulder injuries. The analysis starts with a bottom-up approach by conducting a task analysis of the operation followed by a Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) to study the postures involved in performing the tasks. Based on this and available information on the process, a change in layout is suggested which can potentially reduce the stressful movements of the shoulder muscle. A cycle time study of the current process and the future process based on the proposed layout is conducted. Corresponding calculations for an estimated increase in productivity are also presented. Historical aspects underlying the importance of WMSD’s are highlighted too. The project report concludes with a brief description of future work that can be done to further reduce work postures that lead to shoulder injuries.
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Kavathekar, T., Zehrung, C., Duffy, V.G. (2022). Elimination of Shoulder Related Musculoskeletal Disorder’s in Assembly Operations. In: Duffy, V.G., Rau, PL.P. (eds) HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Papers: Ergonomics and Product Design. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13522. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21704-3_15
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