Workplace Design Selection Framework to Increase Productivity by Using Virtual Reality

摘要

Workplace is one of the important aspects related to the productivity of workers. The arrangement and appearance of workplace layouts, especially in industrial applications, greatly affect the perspective and cognitive of workers, and even the production cycle time. Therefore, to reduce production operating costs and the workplace design repair costs, the design of the workplace needs to be planned and designed appropriately. Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the effective technologies to design a productive workplace. The main concept of VR technology is to imitate, visualize, and simulate the workplace design to the perspective of the user/operator who uses it. From the results of these simulations, then the relevant stakeholders can evaluate and assess the feasibility of each workplace layout design alternative. This paper presents a problem solving framework to choose the best productive workplace layout by utilizing VR technology. We focus on industry with a fixed manufacturing layout and facilities. A series of stages and procedures, as well as the application of the tools involved in the problem solving framework are presented in this paper. At the end of the paper, a discussion is presented regarding the insight, future challenges, and possible developments of this research.