Ergonomic Station Design for Raw Cutting Operators at Jatiwangi Genteng Factory, Majalengka Regency.

In the production department of a manufacturing company, ergonomic, healthy and safety should be a major concern. It’s a department with an high accident work rate. One of approach method in the improvement of working methods of cutting provider of raw materials are anthropometry in ergonomics, its can be used to improve the working tools of the operator so that work equipment is used in accordance with the standards body anthropometry operator. Nordic body map used to recognize the parts of the body operators that have complaint at the time of cutting raw material that aim to reduce the complaints that occur when they doing his job. The study was conducted with the biomechanics approach to the condition before and after work. Previous measurements of anthropometry dimensions of the body to obtain a standard tool used by operators of production department. The biomechanic analysis focused only on the link and joint body parts operators has complaints while working to obtain the energy consumption before and after work. The initial dimension of the raw material table slider 350 x 25 cm with a single cutting of the raw material resulting in repeated cuts. The result of dimensional redesign raw material table slider that indicate significant differences, the dimension needed are 530 x 70 cm. By using raw materials slider table current condition the energy expenditure result are 4,6375 k.cal/min. Based on standard workload Lehman 3,75 k.cal/min, the energy expenditure operators showed that cuts the raw material requires greater energy. Through the redesign of the raw material table slider and better cutting method, the forces and moments acting on the operators when work will create the new workload position. The energy expenditure of the new workload position indicate better result and operators doing their job with a standard workload