An Integration of Statistical and Anthropometric Measurement Approach Towards Improving Ergonomic Design for Production Workbench.

Introduction: Ergonomics design has been demanded and considered the main factor in optimizing production efficiency and effectiveness for the last several decades. Nowadays, most workstations or production workbenches apply ergonomic aspects to their production floor to improve production performance. Production efficiency and effectiveness measurement can be achieved through achieving the effective interaction between the production workbench and the worker. Methods: This paper presents integration methods of statistical approach and anthropometric measurement to improve the ergonomic design of the production workbench in fulfilling ergonomic philosophy. Results: A model of the integration between statistical approach and anthropometric measurement has been developed based on selected quality tools and the application of the ergonomic approach. Conclusion: A sample workbench had been chosen and data were collected to verify the developed model and the obtained results show the developed model potentially improves the production performance because the obtained dimensions within the specification as guided by iHFG and ESA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]