1 Evaluation of the System

DOI: 10.1201/9781003318699-1

1.1 Introduction

Most industrial activities are executed manually due to limitations of mechanization, such as technological constraints and costs. Industrial activities such as maintenance operations, loading and unloading operations on process machines, and similar such other operations are performed manually. Management attitudes are often conservative and traditional, and with predominantly spontaneous judgement-based decision-making. Hence, most operations are carried out manually. Operators work with different types of machine tools and process machines under different environmental conditions. Ergonomic design of the workstation varies according to suitability for operators with ...

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