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Principles of Motion Economy - Practice Question

The worker performs an assembly task that involves inserting pegs into holes in wooden boards. She picks boards from a stack on her left and places the completed boards in a rack. When the rack is full, she must carry it to a pallet that is then taken away by a forklift operator. This process violates motion economy principles by requiring unnecessary reaches and movements. Recommendations could include arranging materials closer to the worker, using a larger pallet to reduce exchange frequency, or implementing an automated material transport system.

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Principles of Motion Economy - Practice Question

The worker performs an assembly task that involves inserting pegs into holes in wooden boards. She picks boards from a stack on her left and places the completed boards in a rack. When the rack is full, she must carry it to a pallet that is then taken away by a forklift operator. This process violates motion economy principles by requiring unnecessary reaches and movements. Recommendations could include arranging materials closer to the worker, using a larger pallet to reduce exchange frequency, or implementing an automated material transport system.

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WS & ME (Batch 2017-21) 5th Semester (2020)

Principles of Motion Economy –


Practice Question
An assembly worker is performing a repetitive manual task consisting of inserting 8 plastic
pegs into 8 holes in a flat wooden board. A slight interference fit is involved in each
insertion. Each work cycle consists of her picking up a board from the stack of I boards
located on the left side of the worktable (about 15 in. away from center, where they were
placed by a material-handling worker), performing the 8 insertions, and then placing the
assembled board into a rack that is next to the starting stack. Her first step in the work cycle
is to reach for the top board in the stack with her right hand, pick it up, and exchange it to the
left hand. While holding the board in her left hand, she picks up the pegs from a tray about 10
in. away in front of her with her right hand and inserts them into the holes in the board, one
peg at a time. The rack holding the completed boards has a capacity of six assemblies. When
the rack is full, the worker gets up from her worktable, picks up the loaded rack, carries it to a
pallet located on the floor 3 ft away from the workplace, and places it onto the pallet. The
pallet only holds four racks on one layer. A material-handling worker riding in a forklift truck
must periodically take the pallet away and replace it with an empty pallet. Because of delays
by the material-handling worker, the assembly worker is occasionally forced to stop working
and wait for the pallet exchange to occur, (a) Identify some of the principles of motion
economy that are violated in this work cycle, (b) What recommendations for improvement
would you make?

IQTM, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Page 1 of 1

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