Philipp Hemkemeyer

Human-centered workplace design

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Engineering, Design

mid 2020

A typical production worker spends his/her major working hours sitting or standing at his/her workplace. Hence the workplace must be very suitable and ergonomic for him/her and adapted to the tasks. During the „Production and Quality Management" course we developed in a team of 5 students a future workplace for a transmission assembly using the Cardboard Engineering method.

Tools I used

Autodesk Inventor
Jamboard

My team

Lukas Dech
Tom Deubel
Robert Posileck
Tom Schmidt

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Overview

📌 Further links

- Cardboard Engineering publication (German)

👨🏼‍💻 Personal Contribution

In this group work I was part of the project management and mainly responsible for the quality conformance aspects of our workplace. There I implemented a kanban-system to make use of visual management. I followed the guidelines to minimize errors as stated in ISO 9001 and implemented the Poka Yoke approach to further prevent any errors. In addition, I used the European Foundation for Quality Management’s (EFQM) excellence model to become more competitive.

📄 Research paper

The research paper was not published and is only available in German hence it is not included on this site.

Workplace System (Cardboard)

The whole system - View of logistic worker

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Worker is pulling the material out of the FiFo (First in, first out)

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Kanban cards usage for logistic orders

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kanban board to organize company information (blue), tasks (yellow) and tasks which are completed (green)

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Under-desk system to drop out empty boxes

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Cardboard press to test the ergonomics of a typical user

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Buttons to simulation the usage of the „andon“ light (for visual management)

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The industry standard „andon“ light

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