Improvement in Material Handling Equipment-An Ergonomic Case Study

Abstract

Ergonomics is the foremost concern in almost all the fields. In industrial cases, ergonomics has become important that works on reduction of human efforts. Material Handling Equipments (MHE) is designed to eliminate human efforts for storage and transportation in logistics. The major components of steering company (Rane Madras Limited, Mysore Plant) are ball pins, sockets, bars, tubes and outer columns. In the present work, MHE's are devised for all these components so as to reduce human effort, elimination of unloading charges and optimizing the counting time that are incorporated during in-warding of materials.