Movement strategy and performance in a high-volume order picking workstation.

The design of a work station generally prescribes a global movement pattern of the operator, but also leaving some degrees of freedom regarding movement strategy. For a specific order picking work station, we studied the movement strategies, the underlying factors and its impact on performance. Eigh...

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Publicado en:Work Vol. 41; pp. 1311 - 1316
Autores principales: Soares, Marcelo M., Jacobs, Karen, Könemann, Reinier, Bosch, Tim, de Looze, Michiel
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. 2012 Supplement
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          Soares, Marcelo M.
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          Work Environment Netherlands
          Ergonomics
          Organizational Efficiency
          Task Performance and Analysis
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          Workload Measurement
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      ab: The design of a work station generally prescribes a global movement pattern of the operator, but also leaving some degrees of freedom regarding movement strategy. For a specific order picking work station, we studied the movement strategies, the underlying factors and its impact on performance. Eight subjects performed a task comprising, the picking and placing of an object and pressing a button in eight conditions varying in product weight, movement direction (left vs. right), and placing distance. Movements were analyzed and cycle times were obtained from video-recordings. We observed various types of strategy regarding hand use and global placing mode (reaching vs. placing). The different strategies did not show clear relationships with performance (in contrast to the various work place factors). Ergonomically spoken, the fact that the workstation allows movement variation without loss of performance, is favorable.
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