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Ergonomics improves workers’ work and well-being.
There is a big difference between working and working well. A workstation based on an ergonomic approach serves to improve both the efficiency and well-being of workers. Safe and orderly work lines have a positive effect on operability, but also on physical and mental health. However, we need to think of advanced workstations, which consider all ergonomic aspects.
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Physical Ergonomics
This studies the tasks that people perform, with a focus on the human body.
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Cognitive Ergonomics
This considers the mental processes involved in performing various tasks.
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Organizational Ergonomics
This is concerned with the processes involved in organizing the work.
GymHub and Fiam, together for ergonomics.
We believe that partnerships are essential if we are to improve. The collaboration with GymHub, a spin-off from the University of Padova, goes in this direction, following projects on technologies to improve working ergonomics and make the workplace more efficient.
A concrete example of this collaboration is the study conducted by GymHub on the effectiveness of reaction arms in manual tools. Completed in September 2024 by a multidisciplinary team of doctors, ergonomists, and biomechanical engineers, the research confirmed that these devices help reduce kickback (reaction on the hand) and vibrations, enhancing operator safety and comfort.
The results, pending publication in medical-scientific journals, are included in our manual “Ergonomics and Safety in Industrial Tightening Operations”, available upon request here.
People are the focus, tools are at their service.
An ergonomic workstation aims to optimize the interaction between humans, machines and the environment.
That is why our tools are designed with the users in mind: each tool is designed to reduce fatigue, ensure maximum safety and increase performance, thereby contributing to a comfortable and safe workstation.
Working well-being.
What it depends on and where to act.
Today, the well-being of workers depends on many factors, some of which were not assessed until a few years ago. Action is needed to make operators feel good and allow them to give their best performance.
Mental fatigue
Continuously supervising a machine leads to mental fatigue.
Advanced tool management
Electric tools are becoming increasingly demanding to program.
Variable operating flows
Increasingly diversified workflows require considerable operational flexibility.
Organizational capacity
Mental activity is constantly called upon to organize work.
Finding information
The constant search for new operational information requires continuous effort.
The four factors that make a workstation an ergonomic workstation.
New generation tools
Operator fatigue is closed linked to the type of tool used, how the operations are performed, how long it takes to perform them and for how many hours they are repeated during the work shift. Modern tools reduce fatigue, precisely because they reduce effort and improve working conditions. It is therefore essential to use modern screwdrivers, but when choosing them it is equally important to assess the type of joint and type of screw, whether operators work standing or sitting, the production rates, what feed is available and where it is delivered.
Choice of accessories
Not everyone thinks about it, but an appropriate accessory improves productivity as well as organizational and cognitive needs. This is the case with Poka Yoke systems, which, for example, warn if not all the screws have been tightened. Or screw feed systems, which avoid the need to take screws by hand, place them on the tip and tighten them. Or feed systems for the components to be assembled or different screws, which guide picking with alerts. Not to mention Cartesian arms, which reduce fatigue of the hand-arm system, or small cobots, which can automate tightening with very high production rates.
Correct design
You cannot just whip up a comfortable and suitable workstation, it must be designed. Tools and various accessories must be arranged to allow operators to work comfortably without adopting incongruous positions. It is therefore essential to assess geometries, dimensions and lighting. However, the operating points on the component, i.e. the positions of the screws with respect to the operator, must also be considered in order to identify a suitable grip, as well as systems for clamping the components to the bench and handling systems to make the tasks easier. Finally, it is essential to ensure that the compressed air pipes or power supply cables do not impose limits.
Monitoring activities
It is important to put operators in the best possible working conditions. But then it is necessary to check that everything is going well. Seeing how tools are used and promoting training to show the features of the available tools are two key aspects of getting operators to work in the best conditions, avoid risk situations, make the most of every solution, optimize productivity and obtain a qualitatively perfect finished product.
Collaborations and services, for the best possible workstation.
Producing state-of-the-art tools, having modern laboratories, and employing specialist personnel is essential to creating ergonomic workstations, but we want more. That is precisely why we work with Certified European Ergonomists, Occupational Doctors and Specialists who support us to continually innovate every solution we offer. In addition to this, we also provide customers with services to ensure operators work in the best possible conditions.
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STEP 1 Measurement
Measurement of noise and vibrations from tools.
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STEP 2 Analysis
Analysis of the workplace.
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STEP 3 Verification
Verification of operating methods to combine ergonomics with production needs.