Industrial Engineers Project

Instructions

You will be completing 1 or 2 product assignments to give you experience in some of the activities that are part of this career. Follow the steps below to complete your experience. Click the arrow buttons to move forward/backward or use the arrows on your keyboard.

1. Watch the Goal, Role, Audience, & Situation video.

2. Review the vocabulary needed to help you complete the project.

3. Review the research resources needed to help you complete the project.

4. Choose a product to begin work on, review the details, and complete the design process.

5. Upload your finished product assignment into the system.

Goal, Role, Audience, & Situation

Text Version

Goal, Role, Audience, & Situation - Text

Goal: As an Industrial Engineer you will design equipment to help improve workstations.

Role: You are an Industrial Engineer and your role is to develop a new workstation and material list.

Audience: Your audience will be the design review team at Steelcase.

Situation: Nearly 86% of Americans sit for a major part of their job. As more and more people continue to work from home, that percentage will continue to increase. The United States Department of Labor wants to make sure work environments are safe for employees. They aim to ensure employers provide quality work environments.

Because of the increased number of people working from home and sitting for most of their job, ergonomics has been a high priority for many companies. It is important that people are efficient at work, but also have the proper equipment to prevent musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace.
Steelcase is well aware of the demand to make sure there is proper equipment for people to be protected at their workplace. They focus on office furniture solutions and need you to help design workstations that help prevent musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace. You will need to come up with a new workstation design and a material list to help move the project forward.

Video Version

Vocabulary

The following terms and definitions may be helpful for your work:

Efficiency - The state or quality of being efficient.
Ergonomics - The study of people's efficiency in their working environment.
Dimension - Measurement in length, width, and/or thickness.
Factor - A circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result or outcome.
Musculoskeletal Disorders - Injuries or disorders of the muscles, nerves, tendons, joints, cartilage, and spinal discs.
Processes - A series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.
System - A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network.

Research

The following resources may be helpful for your work:

Product Choice

Workstation Design	Workstation Design Material List
Design a workstation that will help prevent or reduce musculoskeletal disorders.	Create a material list to help organize what materials may be needed to build a workstation.

Begin

Product #1

Workstation Design: Design a workstation that will help prevent or reduce musculoskeletal disorders. The workstation is for people who mainly work on their computer. The workstation cannot be more than 6 feet wide by 8 feet deep. The workstation needs to include (but not limited to) the following:

Desk space for a desktop and laptop computer
Desk space to set papers and take notes
An adjustable chair
An adjustable desk for different heights
A treadmill, elliptical, or exercise bike (pick 1)

You will need to research, or use the resources below, to consider how to create a workstation with the components listed. Your design should be a newly invented design where customers can purchase this workstation as one unit. It will not work to have all those components separate. As an Industrial Engineer, you need to design an all-in-one workstation that will fit within the dimensions listed above. Your design may be hand drawn or done electronically.

The following resources may be helpful for your work:

Return to Product Choice

Product #2

Workstation Design Material List: Create a material list to help organize what materials may be needed to build a workstation that will help prevent or reduce musculoskeletal disorders. The list needs to include the number of items, description of each item, and intended use to build the workstation. If you know the cost of the item, you may add a column for costs as well. The material list should be done in a spreadsheet format to help organize the items and information.