Abstract
Due to the lack of anthropometric information in northwest Mexico, we made an anthropometric study to know the workers physical characteristics and use this information in the design or redesign of workstations. The study was divided in three phases. The first one was the anthropometric study of 1342 automotive industry workers in northwest of Mexico. The study includes 40 body dimensions of 1072 males and 270 females personalized to be used in the third phase. These data are compared with anthropometric characteristics of population reported in four Mexican places and a Colombian study. The second phase includes the workstations and critical process requirement studies. In the third one, a system is develop where combines workers physical characteristics and workstations lay out and process requirements with the purpose of assigned workers to the best suited workstation. The benefits of this project are: increase workers satisfaction and product quality and reduce economic, medical and union complains.
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