Saturday, April 30, 2011

"Happy Seat, Ford reinvents the assembly line

Working in a happy and healthy environment means working well and better, is fairly well known: they understood the Ford, where they apparently got the letter this thesis, so as to make interesting new plants. The innovation in question is called Happy Seat and, as the name implies (Seat happy) is a special tilting seat that allows the workers of the assembly to work and sit in comfort, without compromising the mobility needed to install the various components both inside and outside of the cars in the works.

The need to use the Happy Seat system was underlined by studies of some doctors accompanied by some trade union representatives, production specialists and a representative of the disabled, who have reached the conclusion that needed an innovative way to make healthier and more lighter work of the workers later with age, thus placing the objective of avoiding the deleterious effects on health that might result from years of working in a traditional assembly line.

The seat was rocking here ndi chosen as the ideal tool to make the work lighter and more peaceful for Ford workers, so that now, after a first trial took place in the plant in Genk in 1998, where it was used for the installation of antennas mounted on the roofs of cars, the system will be extended to other Ford plants in Europe, such as Spanish and German Valencia, Saarlouis.

The Happy Seat is an innovation that could then take hold in many other plants and it is not surprising that much of the fact that his arrival from Ford, the house at the time of that first introduced the Model T assembly line in car production, an invention that gave a strong jolt at the start of mass motorization of the twentieth century.

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