2008 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 50-59
In overseas factories where labor costs are lower than in Japan, assembly work and other such production line operations rely heavily on manpower, so the quality and quantity of the products produced depend on the capabilities of the workers. To produce conforming articles speedily, workers have to be able to do repetitive work evenly on the production line. However, work abilities differ greatly from individual to individual. To hire the workers best suited for the tasks to be done and place them in the right jobs, a way of accurately testing their aptitudes, a paper-and-pencil test, for example, is necessary. In this study,to establish an effective autonomous way to find out if a person is suited for production work in advance in production sites throughout the world, we studied the use of the RT method to judge workers' working capabilities from the results of the Kraepelin general-purpose aptitude test. As a result, it was confirmed that worker capability can be determined at a level that is effective enough for practical use.
