An Analytic Approach for Workers’ Fatigue Examination Using RFID-Enabled Production Data

Yishu Yang () and Ray Y. Zhong ()
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Yishu Yang: The University of Hong Kong
Ray Y. Zhong: The University of Hong Kong

A chapter in LISS 2020, 2021, pp 119-132 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract With the advantages of long-distance contactless identification and data storage capacity, the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in the fields of manufacturing, transportation and logistics has been widely reported. Fatigue of workers plays a critical role in impacting the manufacturing efficiency because it reduces productivity and increases accident rates. Therefore, the workers’ fatigue must be well examined and addressed. This paper thus proposes an analytic approach to use RFID captured production data and builds an effective method for mining the structural insight to predict the fatigue trajectory in workplace from a huge number of RFID data which may be full of inaccurate, incomplete and missing records. In this research, realistic processing time is used to measure the workers’ fatigue. Based on a general framework for the fatigue examination, the proposed approach is able to estimate the employees’ fatigue trajectory within designated period of time using RFID-enabled production data. Different genders and shifts are considered to find the key impact factors on fatigue.

Keywords: Data-driven approach; Fatigue trajectory; Radio frequency identification (RFID) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-4359-7_9

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