IND 303 Study Guide - Final Guide: Job Design, Time And Motion Study, Stopwatch

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Industrial Engineering
• Course: IND 303
• Professor: Donald Tham

Document Summary

Work design is a design process that uses ergonomics to fit the task and workstation to the human operator. Work design is also a technique for increasing the production per unit of time or decreasing the cost per unit output (a. k. a. productivity improvement). Lack of work design: oversimplified procedures result in machine-like repetitive jobs for operators, leads to increased musculoskeletal disorders. Productivity and reduced cost increases are then offset by medical compensation cost. Therefore methods engineer must incorporated principles of work design into any new method so that the process is more productive and safe (injury free: enumerate and briefly explain the objectives of methods, standards and work design. Principal objectives of methods, standards, and work design are: to increase productivity and product reliability safely and, to lower unit cost, thus allowing more quality goods and services to be produced for more people. With a brief explanation of each technique, identify techniques that may be employed towards establishing standards.