Smart ergonomic design of VDT workstation: An Affordable Way to Environment Health and Safety

This chapter deals with the recent emerging design and development of smart workstation that performs industrial assembly operations with some unique distinctiveness. A completely adjustable, smart workstation with an ergonomic designed, with some unique characteristics including a motor table mechanism for angular, upward, and downward motions etc. An ergonomic workstation with back and arm supports, an adjustable seat pan, and a mechanism for tool and bin positioning. The use of anthropometric data has been done to analyze human behavior, abilities and limitations and other characteristics to the design of tools, machines, tasks, jobs and environments for productive, safe, comfortable and effective. The object is to obtain an optimum balance between the human characteristics, capabilities and limitations with the demand of the task. This chapter deals with 3D objects/equipment and human subjects with specific anthropometric measurements to envisage and evaluate human-machine interaction. A performance of Flexible smart-workstation set-up can eliminate the anthropometric and ergonomic harms of fixed workstations and enhance the operator’s performance. The study concludes that with the high level of activity rest period as well as energy consumption increases. There is a linear relationship between the rest period and energy consumption is directly relatable to each other. This study provide insight information into the reduction in operational efficacy and protection effectiveness of VDT operators in intelligent mines owing to brain fatigue and advance enrich the research in the vicinity of brain fatigue in VDT operations.