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This investigation evaluates the use of ergonomic methods in a textile industry installed in Mexicali city, with the objective of optimizing the manufacturing processes. This city is in the northwest of Mexico, and it is considered an industrial zone, being very important in the economic development of Baja California State, together with Tijuana city. The analysis described cases of 100 people evaluated on a production line, where ergonomic design factors of industrial equipment and machinery, work method and aspects that generated a change in attitude of workers in the evaluated textile industry were analyzed. The study was highly relevant, based on the correlation analysis of the three factors mentioned, and was made to improve the working conditions of the evaluated personnel and reducing the number of accidents and health symptoms. The majority of evaluated people presented musculoskeletal disorder (MSD), that suffered of discomfort and pain, essentially in head, neck, shoulders and spine. The textile industry where was the investigation, fabricates work uniforms to other industrial plants of the Mexicali city. This generated the need to apply the Quality Improvement Through Ergonomics (QUITE) method to improve the quality of the manufactured products and avoid the presence of workers with discomfort or pain in the mentioned body parts. With this method, a reduction in times and movements was observed to increase the number of manufactured products and immediate delivery to customers. The investigation was made from 2017 to 2019. |
