Author : Varsha Karandikar, Shriram Sane, Shraddha Chinchkar and Anand Joshi

Ergonomic work station design helps us to work comfortably, efficiently and effectively. Thus, it leads to increase in productivity. Non-ergonomic design can be harmful to the worker. Productivity also gets affected if we are in environment that is not ergonomically designed. In this paper we studied ergonomic aspects of the workstation for frying and washing area in a food processing industry. We observed the ergonomic issues and developed ergonomic workstation along with the improved method. These improved methods have been introduced in the unit.

Keywords: Ergonomics, work station design, methods improvement, food industry

Article published in International Journal of Advance Industrial Engineering, Vol.4, No.1 (March-2016)