OPTIMIZATION OF MANUAL HANDLING OPERATION DURING FURNITURE MANUFACTURING.

Manual handling has always been a common task in the Chinese furniture manufacturing industry, which is easy to cause fatigue. In order to improve the man-machine cooperation in the machining of furniture, and to alleviate the fatigue of workers, the optimization of manual handling operations is discussed in this paper from three aspects: planning of working time, improvement of operating posture and optimization of workbench size. In addition, this paper shares the design of a bending-free boards rack, which is based on the purpose of reducing the worker's back muscle load during operating. In this paper, the optimization of manual handling could be used for reference in the manufacturing industries where manual operations are intensive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]