In your new job as plant designer for a uniform cleaning company, you are assigned to design the height of the main storage bar to hang shirts and pants. Assume clothing length from the hanger hook to lowest section ranges between 25 and 35 inches (i.e. clothes on hangers are never longer than 35 inches). All employees will be expected to hang and remove items on this bar as it winds thru the facility. You don’t want the clean clothes to drag on the floor as they move along different process including removal (selection) for customers, but you also want to limit the risk of overuse injuries to employees and to limit wasted motions that don’t add value to the product (cleaned work clothes).

You visit another plant in your company and notice that they have the finished product removal height set at 60 inches. Is this good, neutral, or bad design? Why? Explain your answer

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I believe that 60 inches is a neutral design because it doesnt take into account the range of clothi... View the full answer