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Posted By James Midlake
All,
Didn't know if we had any contacts out there in the motor industry?
I am interested to know what break / job rotation schedules are used on production lines when manufacturing cars?
Also interested in how long air traffic controllers work before having a break period if anyone has any info or knows of any links.
Midlake
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Posted By Edward Shyer
James,
other than what is stated in the working time regs i don't think there is anything else in legislation.
Suggest you have a word with the union reps and production managers to find out what if any local plant agreements/policies there are in place at your workplace as i believe different plants will have their own agreements.
with regards the air traffic controllers no idea. what is the significance do your cars fly through the production line.?
Regards
Ted
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Posted By Tabs
I worked motorcar industry for 13 years and at that point there were two differet shift patterns:
12 hours about (i.e. days / nights / off)
and earlies 06h30-1400 / lates 14h00-21h30 / nights 21h30-06h30 (or similar) .
On the 12 hour shifts it would be 10 minutes morning, 30 minutes lunch, 10 mins afternoon (similar pattern during the night shift).
On the "earlies" etc., one 10 minute break was scheduled.
In all cases, time was allowed for washing hands and clearing up - so a 10 minute break was often 25-30 mins long.
I quit the motor industry in 1994 - but those patterns certainly carried on until last year (my brother worked the early/late pattern).
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Posted By Merv Newman
We do a lot of work for Renault in France. Their regime, while respecting the 35hr working week regulations, is pretty stiff.
Nominal 7 1/2 hour shifts. Morning and afternoon rotating but "permanent" night shift.
5 minute line-stop every hour. 25 minute midshift break.
30 minute total shut down every 3 months for "management communications"
The standard "cadence" or job cycle is 60 seconds. i.e. you have 60 seconds to complete your operation before the next car comes down the line. And the supervisor watches you to measure your "charge" i.e for how many of those 60 seconds are you actually "producing" ?
If your charge is not up to 80-90% then they will give you something else to do as well.
Hope this helps.
Merv
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Posted By Philby'
In britain...?
I think we have 100 year periods with....
location rotation from dagenham to spain, the czech republic, poland, china and indonesia....
and job rotation from technician to the service sector...
Philby'
I've had enough...I'm off home!
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Posted By James Midlake
All,
Thanks for the responses.
I'm looking at fatigue v levels of concentration, hence why I was interested in the air traffic controllers who presumably need to maintain a fairly high level of concentration.
Any air traffic controllers or their safety managers out there who can help??
Midlake
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