A method of workplace design for sewing operations

Abstract

The process of garment sewing belongs to piece manufacturing processes and is performed on production lines with a closed type of installed workplaces. The operations involved are performed in a sitting posture and working cycles of performing them are short (20-60s), with highly repetitive moves, which often results in occupational diseases due to extremely high psycho-physical loads. This is why it is necessary to design the working system (man- machineenvironment) for each workplace in accordance with static and dynamic anthropometric characteristics of each individual worker. The paper gives an overview of the basic procedure in workplace designing in sewing operations.