Redesign Ironing Board Using Kansei Engineering Method Devianty Safitri (a*), Mira Rahayu (a), Ilma Mufidah (a)
a) School of Industrial and System Engineering, Telkom University, Telekomunikasi Street, Banding 40257, Indonesia
*deviantys19[at]gmail.com
Abstract
Ironing is an activity aims to support the appearance to look neat. The need for someone to maintain their appearance makes this ironing activity a must-do activity. The ironing activity which creates 3 ironing positions when using the existing ironing board consisting of the reaching position, the position of ironing, and the putting position then produces RULA score of those positions respectively 7, 4, and 6, it means those positions are at risk of ironing and immediate changes are needed. This research was conducted to redesign the product based on user needs by using the Kansei Engineering method which obtained 10 Kansei words on an existing ironing board product from 30 respondents and to be continue processed. Product redesign is equipped with a chair and an ironing board that can be folded with the sizes based on anthropometric data dimensions then produces RULA score of ironing positions respectively 3, 2, and 3 which means that the redesign of the ironing board able to reduce the risk of ironing and able to fulfill the Kansei words as user needs.
