Work Study
Code
3726
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial
Credits
6.5
Total hours
90
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
To learn how to evaluate work cycles, in a perspective of operations eficiency and productivity. To learn how to define operations normal time, standard time and work allowances. To know how to evaluate micromotions, and value-added activities. To learn how to structure a line production flow and cell production flow. To learn how to define a process mapping in order to optimize industrial or service processes.
Prerequisites
Not applied. Students must attend of at least 90% of the lectures (attendance registrar is provided)
Subject matter
1. Introduction to labor legislation
2. Discussion of different technologies installed in industrial units: process, bulk, batch and unitary.3. Time study, as a tool for the evaluation and optimization of industrials activities: the time study methodology. Operator activity factor. Activity allowances. Observed, normal and standard time.4. Man-machine cycles, as a methodology of work cycle evaluation, involving operator - equipment interaction.5. Operators pluriocupation, as a methodology of work cycle evaluation, involving the interaction between an operator and several equipments.6. Predetermined Time Systems, as a methodology of microscopic evaluation of upper limb movements: MTM-1 system
7. Line production flow, regarding the competitive advantage in relation to other forms of production flow; cycle time, frequency, idle time and operations synchronization; line dimensioning techniques and performance evaluation.
8. Cell production flow: competitive advantage and strategic objectives related to its implementation; automatic, semi- automatic and intensive manual work cells; dimensioning techniques.
9. Human Factors in industrial production: task dimensioning and the implications in workers psychological state; workstation redimensioning techniques; individual workstations and work groups; different functional structures at operational level and its connection to vertical and horizontal differentiation, and to communication effectiveness.
10. Process mapping of industrial or service processes
Bibliography
HYER, Nancy Lea, ed. lit. - Group techology at work. Nancy Lea Hyerm, ed. lit.. Michigan :
ISBN 0-87263-154-0 (encadernado) GALLOWAY, Dianne - Mapping work processes. Milwaukee, US :
ISBN 0-87389-266-6 (brochado) KONZ, Stephan - Work design : industrial ergonomics. 4th ed.. Scottsdale, Arizona :
ISBN 0-942280-65-2 (encadernado) SHIMOKAWA, K., ed. lit. ; FUJIMOTO, T., ed. lit. - Transforming automobile assembly : experience in automation and work organization. K. Shimokawa, U. Jurgens, T. Fujimoto, ed. lit.. Berlin :
ISBN 3-540-60506-1 (encadernado) AMERICAN PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY CONTROL SOCIETY - Readings in zero inventory. Virginia, US :
ISBN 0-935406-51-4 (brochado) GAITHER, Norman - Production and operations management : version 1.1B. 5th ed. United States :
ISBN 0-03-074631-0 (disquete) MAYER, Raymond R. - Production and operations management. 4th ed. Auckland, NZ :
ISBN 0-07-041025-9 (brochado) WHITE, John A. - Production handbook. 4th ed. New York :
ISBN 0-471-86347-5 (encadernado) : Esc. 19 210$
BUFFA, Elwood S. [et al.] - Production inventory systems : planning and control. 3rd ed. Illinois, US :
ISBN 0-256-02041-8 (encadernado) BOYKIN, Raymond F. [et al.] - Production and operations management : test bank. 5th ed. New York [etc.] :
ISBN 0-03-074627-2 (brochado) Industrial organization and management. 6th ed. New York [etc.] :
ISBN 0-07-052854-3 (encadernado) KONZ, Stephan - Work design : industrial ergonomics. 4th ed.. Scottsdale, Arizona :
ISBN 0-942280-65-2 (encadernado) MONKS, Joseph G. - Operations management : theory and problems. 3rd ed. New York [etc.] :
ISBN 0-07-042727-5 (brochado) ANDERSON, M. Myrup [et al.] - Design for assembly. 2nd ed. Berlin :
ISBN 0-387-18929-7 (encadernado)
Teaching method
7 – Production cells Simulation
Evaluation method
The final exam is restricted to students who meet an attendance of at least 90% of the lectures (attendance registrar is provided)
Delivery of 6/7 written report of a practical assignment (team work in groups of two). The assignments are based on data collected during Lab classes.