Long-term work with computer spent in non-physiological position may be the cause of many health problems, but also leads to less performance of the workers. For these reasons, both employees and employers should be concerned about the correct ergonomics of working places and jointly create a healthy and pleasant environment for work. The topic of this thesis is very relevant due to the fact that still more people have been working in administration and with computer. The purpose of the thesis was to determine the level of implementation of ergonomic requirements on workstation for employees working in the office and suggest corrective actions to improve their working conditions. The survey was conducted in the administrative facility of a company, where the employees work in open space offices. Data were obtained using a questionnaire survey and subjective views of the workers were objectively verified by ergonomic measurement of workstations according to the valid legislation. For the research were established the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: The Ergonomics of workstations is inconvenient. Hypothesis 2: Workers with health problems of the musculoskeletal system more often sit in a wrong position during work. Hypothesis 3: Length of continuous work with the computer has an impact on the incidence of health problems. Hypothesis 4: Comfort at work is affected by the use of ergonomic aids. After evaluating the results, it was found that the only hypothesis that was confirmed was hypothesis 3. The other hypotheses were refuted. According to the results employees have got appropriate working conditions. T results will be provided to employer, who can make the conditions even more improved and more accurately adjusted. In addition, a flyer will be created as an output for practice, which will contain picture of the correct working position and instructions on how to simply set up the furniture so that the correct position could be reached.

Submitted by LAÍS REGINA FAGANELLO null (laisfaganello@hotmail.com) on 2016-04-20T13:09:58Z No. of bitstreams: 2 DIssertação Laís pdf.pdf: 4039139 bytes, checksum: acabf0d0276662841fbe012c9eebca07 (MD5) DIssertação Laís pdf.pdf: 4039139 bytes, checksum: acabf0d0276662841fbe012c9eebca07 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Felipe Augusto Arakaki (arakaki@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-04-26T14:52:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 faganello_lr_me_bauru.pdf: 4039139 bytes, checksum: acabf0d0276662841fbe012c9eebca07 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:52:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 faganello_lr_me_bauru.pdf: 4039139 bytes, checksum: acabf0d0276662841fbe012c9eebca07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A pesquisa pretende avaliar a percepção de desconforto e atividade dos músculos da perna, de usuárias de calçados com salto que possuem hiperidrose plantar. Para isto, discutem-se os aspectos ergonômicos aplicáveis ao design de calçados para pessoas com esta disfunção. A amostra do estudo foi composta por 20 mulheres divididas em dois grupos: com e sem hiperidrose plantar. Foi avaliada a atividade elétrica dos músculos por meio da eletromiografia de superfície (não invasiva) e a percepção de desconforto nos pés através do questionário de mapa plantar. Todos os sujeitos realizaram um circuito de caminhada composto de movimento em terreno plano, inclinado e em escadas. Desta forma, foi possível avaliar, comparando os achados dos dois grupos de sujeitos, a influência da transpiração excessiva dos pés nas atividades dos músculos da perna e na percepção de desconforto. Este estudo contribuirá para o conhecimento científico dos aspectos ergonômicos do design de calçados femininos. / The research aims to evaluate the perception of discomfort and activity of the leg muscles, users of shoes with heels that have plantar hyperhidrosis. For this, discusses the ergonomic aspects applicable to shoe design for people with this disorder. The study sample will consist of 20 women divided into two groups: with and without plantar hyperhidrosis. It was evaluated the electrical activity of the muscles through surface electromyography (no invasive) and the perception of discomfort in the feet through the survey map of the feet. All subjects will conduct a walking circuit composed of movement on flat ground, bent and stairs. In this way, you can evaluate by comparing the findings of the two group of subjects, the influence of excessive sweating of the feet in the activities of the leg muscles and perception of discomfort. This study will contribute to the scientific knowledge of the ergonomic aspects of the design of women´s shoes.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-12-08Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:26:18Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 coneglian_ams_me_bauru.pdf: 1568449 bytes, checksum: 87eca891e0ebf11847a204a8fac9f755 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Essa pesquisa teve como objetivo fazer um estudo dos problemas ergonômicos da posição sentada em um departamento de apoio às agências em bancários, na cidade de Bauru. Devido à evolução do sistema bancário, à centralização do processo administrativo e à utilização da informática, foi constatado que esta população de trabalhadores permanece a maior parte do tempo na posição sentada. A revisão bibliográfica deu definições do sistema bancário e fez uma síntese da história dos bancos e do trabalho bancário no Brasil. Foi feita uma investigação dos problemas ergonômicos, o mobiliário, as recomendações das normas técnicas e o que há de moderno em termos de mobiliário e equipamentos para se trabalhar diante de um computador. A análise da postura sentada foi realizada de forma a relacioná-las aos riscos que os funcionários estão correndo a permanecer nesta postura por longos períodos e de forma inadequada. A metodologia constou da aplicação de um questionário, para obter informações sobre o mobiliário, equipamentos de adaptação, postura adotada na posição sentada e dores (apontadas por meio do diagrama de Corllet e Manenica, 1980). Foram utilizados também registros fotográficos dos postos de trabalho e dos funcionários em suas respectivas atividades laborais na tentativa de identificar inadequações posturais e layout do ambiente. Foi feita uma pesquisa descritiva, pela qual se realizou um estudo de caso em departamento bancário onde foram pesquisados todos os funcionários do local. O estudo de caso permitiu identificar as condições do posto de trabalho, analisar o mobiliário, averiguar a postura adotada e mapear as dores corporais apontadas pelos sujeitos. Os principais resultados mostraram que 81,63% dos entrevistados disseram que o monitor estava na mesma altura dos olhos... / This research had as its objective to assumed by the ergonomic problems caused by the ergonomic problems caused by the sitting position in an agencies support department bank employees, in the city of Bauru - SP. Due to the evolution of the banking system, to the centralization of the administrative process and the use of computer science, it was verified that this population of workers remains stays most of the time sitting. The bibliographical review gave definitions of the banking system and offered made a synthesis of the history of banks and theirs workers in Brazil. It was make an investigation of the ergonomic problems, the furniture, and the recommendations of the technical norms and of update furniture terms and equipments to work before a computer. The analysis of the sitting posture was accomplished to relate them to the risks that the employees are running by staying in this position for long periods and in an inadequate way. The methodology consisted of an application of a questionnaire, to obtain information on the furniture, adaptation equipments, position adopted in the sitting position and pains (pointed through the diagram of Corllet and Manenica, 1980). And there were used photographic registrations of the workstations and of the employees in their respective working activities in the attempt to identify inadequate position and layout of the environment. It was make a descriptive research, it in which a case study in a banking department was performed where all the employees of the place were researched. The case study made it possible to identify the conditions of the workstation, to analyze the furniture, to discover the adopted position and to map the pointed corporal pains for the subjects. The main results showed that 81,63% of the interviewees said that the monitor was at the same height of their eyes... (Complete abstract click electronic address below)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-03-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:53:05Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 rocha_ef_me_bauru.pdf: 1065816 bytes, checksum: 3d22d6be5edd90f793a16e97035c2fa0 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho pesquisa uma relação entre o consumo de energia elétrica e a forma de implantação dos edifícios, buscando evidenciar diretrizes mais apropriadas para o conforto do usuário. Para isso foi feito um levantamento das características de localização, orientação e forma de cinco edifícios residenciais térreos no bairro Vila Universitária, em Bauru-SP. Através de cruzamentos de dados e análises, foram identificadas algumas tendências de consumo em função das seguintes variáveis: área construída, fator de visão do céu (FVC), tempo de sombreamento, área de exposição das fachadas NE, área de exposição das fachadas NO, área de exposição das fachadas SO e área de exposição das fachadas SE. Aplicando-se técnicas de Redes Neurais Artificiais (RNA) foi possível identificar a relevância de cada uma dessas variáveis para o consumo de energia das edificações estudadas. Os resultados revelam que a área de exposição das fachadas NO é a variável mais importante dentre aquelas estudadas, seguida pelo tempo de sombreamento e o FVC. / This research seeks a relationship between electrical energy consumption and the way buildings are settled, so that appropriated guidelines for the user comfort can be pointed out. For this purpose a data collection was carried out, taking into consideration the location, orientation and form of residential one-story buildings in the neighborhood of Vila Universitaria, in Bauru-SP. By cross-examining data and analysis, some tendencies of energy consumption were identified, considering the following variables: construction area, sky view factor (SVF), shadowing time, NE façade exposition area, NW façade exposition area, SE façade exposition area. By applying Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) technique, we have determined the relevance of each one of these variables on the energy consumption of the studied units. The results showed that the NW façade exposition is the most important variable among the variables studied, followed by the shadowing time and the SVF.

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Manutenção, para as organizações, possui a função estratégica de garantir a confiabilidade buscada com a disponibilidade projetada para os processos. Enquanto um serviço, a conformidade da execução dos serviços de manutenção é o resultado dos recursos envolvidos, da capacidade técnica, de logística, dos meios, do planejamento, do controle das condições de trabalho e do ambiente. Mantenabilidade é a adequada execução destes serviços, que acontece pela necessária adoção de requisitos para atender a normas, legislação e melhores praticas, particularmente associados ao ambiente em que as atividades e tarefas de manutenção serão desenvolvidas. Este estudo contempla um conjunto de quatro artigos que têm por finalidade identificar os requisitos de mantenabilidade a serem atendidos na execução dos serviços de manutenção. Para tanto, a partir de um estudo sistemático, identifica na literatura os principais requisitos, estruturando-os em áreas, e aplica pesquisa junto a especialistas de manutenção para classificá-los quanto à importância e aplicabilidade. Na sequência, agrupa estes requisitos em criticidade, estabelece um ranqueamento quanto à sua observação e debate a ocorrência na literatura e o operado nas organizações, bem como a possível defasagem existente entre o operado e o concebido em discussões acadêmicas. Como resultado, além de apresentar os principais requisitos de mantenabilidade na execução dos serviços de manutenção, caracteriza o impacto da adoção dos requisitos de mantenabilidade nas organizações e conclui que a mantenabilidade gerenciada é responsável pela conformidade da execução dos serviços e pelos resultados organizacionais buscados. O estudo aponta para a necessidade de construir uma sistemática capaz de diagnosticar o nível de observação dos requisitos de mantenabilidade em uma organização e de introduzir melhorias nos processos e execução de serviços de manutenção existentes. / Maintenance, for the organizations, comprises the strategic function of assuring the sought reliability by the planned availability for the processes. As a service, the conformity in the performance of maintenance services results from the involved resources, technical capacity, logistics, means, planning, control of work conditions and environment. Maintainability is the adequate performance of these services, which occur by the adoption of requirements that observe norms, legislation, and best practices, particularly connected to the environment where the maintenance activities and tasks will be developed. This study consists of a block of four articles, which aim to verify the necessary maintainability requirements to be attended in the performance of maintenance services. For the accomplishment, it takes a systematic study to identify in the literature the major requirements, organizing them by sections, and applies a research to maintenance experts in order to categorize these requirements on levels of importance and applicability. Subsequently, it groups these requirements on emergency levels, establishes a ranking board based on their observation, and discusses their occurrences in the literature towards what is performed in the organizations, as well as the possibly existent hiatus between the operated procedures and the concepts raised from academic discussions. As a result, besides presenting the major maintainability requirements in the performance of maintenance services, it characterizes the impact of the adoption of maintainability requirements by the organizations and concludes that the managed maintainability is responsible for the conformity in the performance of services and for the sought organizational results. The study reveals the necessity of structuring a systematics able to diagnose the level of attendance of maintainability requirements by an organization and to attach improvements to the processes and performance of existing maintenance services.

ORWAK AB is a market leading manufacturer of compaction and baling solutions for solid waste materials like corrugated cardboard, plastics and paper. The company strives for continuous development of their processes and operations with the goal to achieve better efficiency to be able to supply their customers with new innovations and high-quality products. Their vision is “Turning Waste Into Value” The purpose of this study has been to identify losses related to the company’s internal supply and management of materials. The study has been limited to a single production line which was chosen together with the company because of its good attributes for generalization. It was also necessary as the consequence of the limited time span. In addition, the purpose of the study has been to develop an action proposal on how to solve the identified losses. To be able to identify the losses the study has processed a numerous of logistics and production theories to constitute an understanding of how an efficient supply of materials can be achieved. The empirical research was constructed by the help of observations, interviews, conversations and different time studies. The time studies that was conducted yielded data about how different activities related to each other in frequency and time. The activities were classified into different categories to determine which activities that was adding value, and which were not. This made it possible to determine the total loss of the studied production line. As a total, 17% of the documented activates was categorized as losses.   The analysis connects the identified losses with different aspects of applicable theory to identify and solve them. These connections then create the foundation for the action proposal that has been presented. The result of the action proposal was to implement a more specific standard about how production and warehouse related activities should function, reform the current tool and material racks in production and remove unnecessary pallets, equipment and tools which is not of use. A new production line layout which improves the flow and handling of material for the operators as well as reduces the losses identified to supply of material. The action proposal also presents a suggestion to implement a new module to the company’s current ERP-system to solve the lack of information flow between the warehouse and production regarding material levels, locations and material call offs.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:58:24Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 franco_an_me_bauru.pdf: 1308176 bytes, checksum: 2c20e2aae143f01009a9c52347dc856a (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A população estudada na presente pesquisa foi de Idosos freqüentadores de atividades físicas em grupos da Terceira Idade na cidade de Bauru. A amostra foi composta por 190 sujeitos, sendo 140 mulheres e 50 homens, selecionados por conveniência. O objetivo do estudo foi reunir 27 variáveis antropométricas (16 em pé e 11 na postura sentada), mais o Índice de Massa Corpórea (IMC), de indivíduos com 50 anos ou mais de idade, verificando a viabilidade da formação de um Banco de Dados Antropométrico, elaborado a partir de levantamentos anteriores realizados pelos pesquisadores da FAAC Depto. De Desenho Industrial (SILVA, 1995; PASCHOARELLI, 1997; QUEIROZ, 2000; VILLA, 2001). Como regra geral, o presente levantamento antropométrico ateve-se a idosos independentes de auxílio humano ou artificiais. De uma maneira bastante simples, mas abrangente, os resultados coletados foram apresentados em tabelas, nas quais cada variável estudada foi minuciosamente descrita, tanto quantitativa como qualitativamente. Após as observações sistemáticas e análises estatísticas, pode-se averiguar as evidências quanto às características físicas e antropométricas do envelhecimento humano, as possibilidades da utilização dos dados quantitativos apresentados e a necessidade de estudos aprofundados na área que subsidiem procedimentos metodológicos utilizados por pesquisadores e profissionais que investigam e concentram seus trabalhos em projetos, produtos e serviços específicos a população estudada, a pesquisa direcionou os resultados de forma quantitativa, expondo os dados em tabelas e descrevendo criteriosamente os parâmetros morfológicos individualmente. O estudo concentrou-se num levantamento antropométrico visando abranger a faixa etária mais ampla possível, no caso aqui, ateve-se dos 50 anos em diante, alcançado a marca dos 88 anos de idade, em ambos os gêneros. / The present study sample comprised elderly attending physical activities in elderly groups in the city of Bauru. The sample included 190 individuals, being 140 females and 50 males, selected according to the convenience. The aim of the study was to gather 27 anthropometric variables (16 standing and 11 sitting), besides the Body Mass Index (BMI) of individuals aged 50 years or more, checking the viability of establishment of an Anthropometric Data Bank based on data of previous surveys performed by investigators of FAAC Department of Industrial Design (SILVA 1995; PASCHOARELLI 1997; QUEIROZ 2000; VILLA 2001). In general, the present anthropometric investigation was limited to elderly individuals who did not depend on human or artificial aid. In a simple yet thorough manner, the results were presented in tables, in which each variable was described in detail both quantitatively and qualitatively. After systematic observations and statistical analyses, the evidences of physical and anthropometric characteristics of human aging were observed, as well as the possibilities of utilization of the quantitative data presented and the need of deeper studies in the field to provide a basis for methodological procedures employed by investigators and professionals addressing specific projects, products or services specifically for this population; the study directed the results in a quantitative manner, presenting the data in tables and carefully describing the morphological parameters individually. The study focused on an anthropometric survey to include the widest age range as possible, which in the present case was above 50 years, reaching 88 years in both genders.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:20:21Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 vidrichfilho_h_me_bauru.pdf: 1113584 bytes, checksum: 384c866bf4fdb913a86ecebde7460955 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente trabalho avaliou 60 indivíduos, sem patologias, 30 homens e 30 mulheres, entre 17 e 70 anos, totalizando 120 membros superiores. Elaborou-se um protocolo, a fim de se avaliar a força de preensão palmar plena, medida com o Dinamômetro JAMAR®, e a força de preensão pulpo-lateral, medida com o Medidor de Pinça B&L, correlacionando-as com o gênero, idade, posições dos membros superiores e medidas antropométricas da mão. Constatou-se que ambas as forças de preensão foram maiores no gênero masculino do que no gênero feminino, assim como, as medidas antropométricas das mãos. Levando-se em conta a correlação das forças com as posições dos membros superiores, nas quais foram avaliadas as forças não se encontrou correlação estatisticamente significativa em nenhuma das posições, porém, observou-se correlação com algumas medidas antropométricas das mãos, como largura da mão, comprimento do polegar e do dedo médio, assim como da mão. Portanto as medidas antropométricas devem ser consideradas em uma avaliação clínica e/ou ergonômica. / The present research evaluated 60 people without any current pathologies, 30 male and 30 female whose age range went from 17 to 70 years old making up a total of 120 upper limbs. A protocol was created aiming to evaluate full grip strength, measured with JAMAR® Dynamometer, and lateral pulp grasp measured with B&L Pinch, relating them to gender, age, upper limbs positions and anthropometrical hand measurements. It has been noticed that both grip strengths were larger with males rather than females as well as the anthropometrical hand measurements. Taking into consideration the relation of the forces with the upper limbs positions in which the forces were evaluated, no meaningful statistical relation was found in any of the positions, however, a relation with some anthropometrical hand measurement were noticed such as hand width, thumb and middle finger length, as well as the hand s. Therefore, the anthropometrical hand measurements shall be regarded towards a clinical and/or ergonomic evaluation.