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Diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry

.In the new era of world industrialization, ergonomics plays an important role to improve occupational safety and health, and productivity in most industries including aerospace manufacturing industry. However, aerospace manufacturing industry in Malaysia does not put any priority on ergonomics awar...

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Main Authors: Seri Rahayu , Kamat, Norhidayah, Hashim, Mohd Shahrizan, Othman
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
TS Manufactures
Online Access:http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/13989/1/ISoRIS_2014_-_Diminish_Muscle_Activity_by_vhanging_an_anthropometry_data_workstation_among_workers_in_aerospace_manufacturing_industry.pdf
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spelling my.utem.eprints.139892015-05-28T04:35:27Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/13989/ Diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry Seri Rahayu , Kamat Norhidayah, Hashim Mohd Shahrizan, Othman TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery TS Manufactures .In the new era of world industrialization, ergonomics plays an important role to improve occupational safety and health, and productivity in most industries including aerospace manufacturing industry. However, aerospace manufacturing industry in Malaysia does not put any priority on ergonomics awareness, for an example, by not selecting a suitable workstation with operators’ anthropometry. As a consequence, operators are exposed to various ergonomic risk factors and prone to have ergonomic injuries. The objectives of this study are to diminish muscle activity while operators perform lay-up process in a workstation, before and after the workstation is changed using suitable an anthropometry data among operators. The surface Electromyography (sEMG), a set of anthropometry ruler and Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) from Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) software are used to evaluate muscle activity, operators’ anthropometry data, and working posture respectively. Results of muscle activity and RULA found that by changing the anthropometry data with suitable workstation has diminished the physiological stress such as work/loading in muscles as well as extreme posture. The study concluded that suitable operators’ anthropometry must work with appropriate size of workstation because inappropriate selection can contribute significantly to improve physiological performance of the operators. 2014-10-16 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/13989/1/ISoRIS_2014_-_Diminish_Muscle_Activity_by_vhanging_an_anthropometry_data_workstation_among_workers_in_aerospace_manufacturing_industry.pdf Seri Rahayu , Kamat and Norhidayah, Hashim and Mohd Shahrizan, Othman (2014) Diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry. In: International Symposium on Research in Innovation and Sustainability 2014 (ISoRIS ’14), 15 and 16 October 2014, PPS UTeM .
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topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
TS Manufactures
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
TS Manufactures
Seri Rahayu , Kamat
Norhidayah, Hashim
Mohd Shahrizan, Othman
Diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry
description .In the new era of world industrialization, ergonomics plays an important role to improve occupational safety and health, and productivity in most industries including aerospace manufacturing industry. However, aerospace manufacturing industry in Malaysia does not put any priority on ergonomics awareness, for an example, by not selecting a suitable workstation with operators’ anthropometry. As a consequence, operators are exposed to various ergonomic risk factors and prone to have ergonomic injuries. The objectives of this study are to diminish muscle activity while operators perform lay-up process in a workstation, before and after the workstation is changed using suitable an anthropometry data among operators. The surface Electromyography (sEMG), a set of anthropometry ruler and Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) from Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) software are used to evaluate muscle activity, operators’ anthropometry data, and working posture respectively. Results of muscle activity and RULA found that by changing the anthropometry data with suitable workstation has diminished the physiological stress such as work/loading in muscles as well as extreme posture. The study concluded that suitable operators’ anthropometry must work with appropriate size of workstation because inappropriate selection can contribute significantly to improve physiological performance of the operators.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Seri Rahayu , Kamat
Norhidayah, Hashim
Mohd Shahrizan, Othman
author_facet Seri Rahayu , Kamat
Norhidayah, Hashim
Mohd Shahrizan, Othman
author_sort Seri Rahayu , Kamat
title Diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry
title_short Diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry
title_full Diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry
title_fullStr Diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry
title_full_unstemmed Diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry
title_sort diminish muscle activity by changing an anthropometry data with appropriate workstation among workers in aerospace manufacturing industry
publishDate 2014
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