Midterms Flashcards
Scientific study and body of knowledge of human abilities, limitations, and characteristics for the appropriate design of the living
Ergonomics
Study of problems of people to their environment
Science that seeks to adapt work or working conditions to suit the worker
Ergonomics
Focuses on safety and comfort of workers
Ergonomics
Concentrates on human performance
Human factors
Emerged from a military background
Human factors
Aspect of ergonomics to ensure safe working environments
Safety
Aspect of ergonomics that focuses on the human body’s physical structure
Anatomical factors
Study on human body movement
Anthropometry
Study on exertion of forces by the body
Biomechanics
Study on the body’s ability to produce energy and use it for performance of work
Physiology of effort
Study on the influence of work environment on the body
Industrial physiology
Uses techniques like method study and work measurement to understand human work potential
Work study
Scientific process to better job design
Method study
Born in Fairfield Maine on 1868
Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Studied fastest workers to teach maximum efficiency
Frank Gilbreth
Technique which involved attaching flashing lights to a workers fingers
Cylograph technique
Book written by the Gilbreth children
Cheaper by the dozen
Father of scientific management
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Made sure that employees were putting in fair days work
Frederick Taylor
Used to directly observe tasks and record the time to complete them
Time study technique
Combination of time study technique and motion and fatigue study
Time and motion study technique
Remained a fundamental practice for modern lean organizations
Time and motion study technique
Used to determine the best methods for completing actions within the required time
Time and motion studies
Scientific approach to measuring recording and analyzing the time It takes to perform actions
Time study
Understanding the movement that take place when actions are performed
Motion study
Affects the machine operation maintenance, quality and efficiency
Physical process
Required a compact comfortable work environment
Dexterity
Combines a sequence of operations
Manufacturing process
Study of the properties of solid msterials
Industrial materials and processes
Subject of professional safety studies
Basic occupational safety and health
Leading factor for building a good OSH
Industrial engineering
Hierarchy: to eliminate hazard from a process
Elimination of hazard
Hierarchy: substitute risk with safer slternative
Substitution of hazard
Hierarchy: put control on the hazard
Engineering control
Hierarchy: enforcing workforce to comply with safety standards
Administrative control
Hierarchy: involves wearing safeguards
Ensuring personal protective equipment
Design to serve the target customers needs
Supply chain
Area that deals with the production of goods and services
Operations management
Concerned with managing the process that converts inputs into output
Operations management
About the technical method for achieving success in quality control
Quality control
Supply chain strategy that is Appropriate for change that are focused on execution efficiencies and cost performance
Stable
Supply chain strategy that works well when the chain acts to fulfill demand from trade partners
Reactive
Supply chain strategy that focuses on the efficiency in cost management and on the total delivered cost of finished goods
Efficient reactive
Arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company
Vertical supply chain management
Expanding a business by acquiring a similar company in the same industry
Horizontal integration management
Stages of supply chain where organization lacks internal definition and goals
Multiple dysfunction
Stage of supply chain management where there is an improvement and effectiveness efficiency and quality within function areas
Semi functional enterprise
A stage of supply chain management where it is fully integrated between departments using enterprise resource planning
Integrated entrprise
Stage of supply chain management for there is a complete sharing of information across integrated networks
Extended enterprise
