Identifying the Essential Attributes of Visual Displays used in Assembly Operations to Shorten Worker Reaction Time  

Oleh:

Martinez, Iris Ann G. ; Calamlam, Abel M.

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 14th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS), 3-6 December 2013 Cebu, Philippines, page 1-10.
Topik: Production and Operationgs Management; Lean Manfacturing; Ergonomics
Fulltext: 4018.pdf (504.89KB)

Isi artikel

The assemble-to-order (ATO) strategy has been widely used by business organizations to quickly and cost-effectively provide products that are customized to a certain extent. Here, a certain level of inventory of manufactured parts are kept until order from the customer is received and thereafter, the assembly process begins and ends with the “customized” mix of manufactured parts required by the customer. If the parts are truly available during the time of receipt of customer order, then the lead time is dictated by the assembly process. Thus, shortening the time of the assembly process becomes critical. Recently, it is becoming common for organizations to use visual displays to help shorten the assembly time. Concretely, for example, a situation would be that of while the order is being received from the customer, the description of the assembled product is communicated real-time from the order-taker to the part fabricators, down to the final assembler. Information may be captured from the point-of-sale and communicated real time to the other parts of the organization through visual displays. One question that can be raised here would be “what are attributes of the visual displays in assembly operations that affect the response time (i.e., time between looking at the display and performing the assembly process) of the assembler?” This research has the objective of answering the aforementioned question. It is the aim of the study to identify the characteristics of the visual display, e.g., font, color, number of display windows, that affect the length of the assembly process. This research uses an experimental set-up using an eye-mark tracking system, as well as, questionnaire investigation to arrive at its conclusions.

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