The footwear factory's assembly sector: opposing organizational structure and quality from the ergonomic work analysis.
Data from 2006 indicated that Brazilian footwear leather industry was composed of approximately 9,488 formally registered establishments, considering the leather industry, footwear and leather goods. It was responsible for 211,582 people employed. However, in spite of having many employees, this kind of organization found several problems when analyzed from the ergonomics view. With this premise, then, in order to identify bottlenecks and other engineering problems that could cause discomfort and motivation lack among workers, leading directly to the loss of the product quality, the assembly sector of women's shoes factory was characterized.
Laboratório Integrado de Engenharia de Produção (LIPES), Production Engineering department, Engeneeting School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. kakaunevessilva@gmail.com
Kláudia M M N
KM
Silva
Bernardo G P
BG
Coelho
Josemir V S
JV
Junior
Luiz F M
LF
Faria
Ludmila
L
Dutra
Marília
M
Alvarenga
Renan
R
Roggini
Eliza Helena de Oliveira
EH
Echternach
D001938:Brazil; D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012775:Shoes; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis