Journal article
Quality improvement in manufacturing through human performance enhancement
Integrated manufacturing systems, Vol.12(5), pp.360-367
09/01/2001
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005713
Abstract
In the increasingly competitive global economy, survival of an industry depends on catering to customer needs by quickly producing quality products and providing quality service at an affordable price. In production, or in service, ergonomic considerations have manifested themselves in two distinct, yet related, domains. Focuses on the humans who contribute to product manufacture service. It is frequently advocated that since humans are unreliable and less consistent, compared to machines, they are primarily responsible for lowering product and service quality. Ergonomic considerations, which, ironically, can improve human performance, are paid lip service during manufacturing system design. Compounding the problem is the current inability of most ergonomists to make ergonomic recommendations that do not run counter to the productivity and quality goals of system designers. Addresses these two issues by illustrating, through four case studies, the relationship between quality and variables that affect human performance.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Quality improvement in manufacturing through human performance enhancement
- Creators
- Majorkumar Govindaraju - Information Management ServicesArunkumar Pennathur - The University of Texas at El PasoAnil Mital - University of Cincinnati
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Integrated manufacturing systems, Vol.12(5), pp.360-367
- Publisher
- MCB UP Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1108/EUM0000000005713
- ISSN
- 0957-6061
- eISSN
- 1758-583X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2001
- Academic Unit
- Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984186974202771
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