Standardization of the Work Design Process: Case Studies

Work design is considered as content, method and work specific relations to meet requirements on technology or of organization as well as social and human to complete that work. It focuses on designing a process transferring necessary input to expected output while human factors or requirements of organization have to be met. A good work design would bring many benefits for any organization or operator by setting up an effective, efficient and comfortable work system. Actually, many relative research topics on detail engineering designs or application results were published. However, the work design is difficultly applied in practice systems although it potentially brings many benefits. This research would present an applicable guideline to design good work. Standardization of work design process would be studied, which is simple, easy to use, and useful for organizations or personals to follow. As a result, efficient work will be achieved to reduce completion time, eliminate waste and unvalued-added time, save material, resource, improve product quality and create comfortable working environment. In addition, an optimum work design process was studied and used to design works at some case studies such as a furniture manufacturing and electronic assembly shop floor. It contributes to improve efficiency at the studied work stations impressively.