<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The objective of this paper is to describe an ergonomics contribution in maintainability. The economical designs, inputs and training helps to increase the maintainability indicators for industrial devices. This analysis can be helpful, among other cases, to compare systems, to achieve a better design regarding maintainability requirements, to improve this maintainability under specific industrial environment and to foresee maintainability problems due to eventual changes in a device operation conditions. With this purpose, this work first introduces the notion of ergonomics and human factors, maintainability and the implementation of assessment of human postures, including some important postures to perform maintenance activities. A simulation approach is used to identify the critical posture of the maintenance personnel and implements the defined postures with minimal loads on the personnel who use the equipment in a practical scenario. The simulation inputs are given to the designers to improve the workplace/equipment in order to high level of maintainability. Finally, the work concludes summarizing the more significant aspects and suggesting future research.</p></abstract>

The objective of this paper is to describe an ergonomics contribution in maintainability. The economical designs, inputs and training helps to increase the maintainability indicators for industrial devices. This analysis can be helpful, among other cases, to compare systems, to achieve a better design regarding maintainability requirements, to improve this maintainability under specific industrial environment and to foresee maintainability problems due to eventual changes in a device operation conditions. With this purpose, this work first introduces the notion of ergonomics and human factors, maintainability and the implementation of assessment of human postures, including some important postures to perform maintenance activities. A simulation approach is used to identify the critical posture of the maintenance personnel and implements the defined postures with minimal loads on the personnel who use the equipment in a practical scenario. The simulation inputs are given to the designers to improve the workplace/equipment in order to high level of maintainability. Finally, the work concludes summarizing the more significant aspects and suggesting future research.

Ergonomics Contribution in Maintainability

Management Systems in Production Engineering

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The objective of this paper is to describe an ergonomics contribution in maintainability. The economical designs, inputs and training helps to increase the...

Ergonomics Contribution in Maintainability

Article Category: Special Issue Title: Maintenance Performance Measurement and Management Challenges: from Sensing to Decision Support

Published Online: Aug 01, 2017

Page range: 217 - 223

Received: Oct 01, 2016

Accepted: Apr 01, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mspe-2017-0031

Keywords
ergonomics, maintainability, human posture, human factors, ALBA simulation

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Ergonomics Contribution in Maintainability

Article Category: Special Issue Title: Maintenance Performance Measurement and Management Challenges: from Sensing to Decision Support

Published Online: Aug 01, 2017

Page range: 217 - 223

Received: Oct 01, 2016

Accepted: Apr 01, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mspe-2017-0031

Keywordsergonomics, maintainability, human posture, human factors, ALBA simulation

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
ergonomics, maintainability, human posture, human factors, ALBA simulation