Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present an attempt to develop an instrument containing operational measures of lean combined with safety and ergonomic conditions in a workstation or production line. This operational tool aims to help researchers and practitioners to prioritize and evaluate the lean implementations, as well as the ergonomic and safety conditions, in an integrated way.

Design/methodology/approach

Lean manufacturing methods and principles, as well as safety and ergonomics aspects, were exhaustively researched with the ultimate goal of finding a way to improve the workplace by taking into account the efficiency and well-being of workers. The instrument was validated in an interactive process between theory and practical insights. At the end, it was tested in several workstations/production areas.

Findings

The study reveals that high scores are derived from a good interaction between lean, ergonomics and safety.

Research limitations/implications

It would be important to validate it in different companies and different types of industries because each one has its own characteristics.

Practical implications

This tool helps practitioners (technicians and ergonomic practitioners from manufacturing companies) assess the implementation of lean principles and the safety issues in their processes. It also allows managers to evaluate their business and identify the priority areas to improve according to the previously defined company’s aims.

Originality/value

As Peter Drucker said: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” For a successful implementation, managers should start the lean journey with a lean assessment and make it in a regular basis. To the authors’ knowledge, there are various lean assessment tools, but this work is innovative because it provides an assessment instrument to evaluate organizations’ workstations/production areas simultaneously in three dimensions: lean, safety and ergonomic aspects.

中文翻译：

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一种持续改进的评估工具，考虑了精益，安全性和人体工程学

目的

本文的目的是提出一种尝试在工作台或生产线中开发一种包含瘦肉操作措施以及安全性和人体工程学条件的仪器的尝试。该操作工具旨在以集成的方式帮助研究人员和从业人员对精益实施以及人机工程学和安全条件进行优先级排序和评估。

设计/方法/方法

对精益生产方法和原理以及安全性和人体工程学方面进行了详尽的研究，其最终目的是通过考虑工人的效率和福祉，找到一种改善工作场所的方法。该工具在理论与实践见解之间的互动过程中得到了验证。最后，它已在多个工作站/生产区域进行了测试。

发现

该研究表明，高分来自精益，人体工程学和安全性之间的良好互动。

研究局限/意义

在不同的公司和不同类型的行业中验证它很重要，因为每个人都有自己的特点。

实际影响

该工具可帮助从业人员（制造公司的技术人员和人机工程学从业人员）评估精益原则的实施情况及其过程中的安全问题。它还可以使管理人员评估业务并根据先前定义的公司目标确定需要改进的优先领域。

创意/价值

正如彼得·德鲁克（Peter Drucker）所说：“如果无法衡量，就无法改善。” 为了成功实施，管理人员应从精益评估开始，并进行定期评估。就作者所知，有各种精益评估工具，但是这项工作是创新的，因为它提供了一种评估工具，可以同时从三个方面对组织的工作站/生产区域进行评估：精益，安全和人机工程学方面。