Time efficiency and physical workload in manual picking from large containers
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

A common task in both trade and manufacturing, manual picking from large containers often involves considerable physical workload, as well as low efficiency and varying picking times. With quantitative evidence from an industrial setting, the paper provides detailed insights into how physical workload and picking time vary in picking from large containers. Components at a short horizontal distance from the picker and at the top instead of the bottom of the pallet are associated with shorter picking time and lower physical workload. Moreover, pallets tilted 45° towards the picker are associated with picking times that are significantly shorter on average and display smaller variations than horizontal pallets. The effects that the tilting of the pallets has on physical workload differs depending on component characteristics and from which section of the containers picking was performed. In the study, the greatest values of physical workload were observed for the tilted pallets.

picking time

physical workload

large containers

order picking

kit preparation

Författare

Robin Hanson

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Supply and Operations Management

Lars Medbo

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Supply and Operations Management

Majeed Assaf

Volvo Group

Patrik Jukic

Ingenjörsfirman Allan Persson

International Journal of Production Research

0020-7543 (ISSN) 1366-588X (eISSN)

Vol. 56 3 1109-1117

Ämneskategorier

Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Styrkeområden

Transport

Produktion

DOI

10.1080/00207543.2017.1371352

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2018-04-18