Reduce Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Before It Reduces Production!

Today’s manufacturers are in a global race to provide high quality products and achieve productivity goals.  They are further challenged by the ever-changing push for new product development.  Assembly operators are still the best resource for maintaining the necessary flexibility and productivity in the assembly of quality products. 

Unfortunately, the demands placed on today’s operators can come with an additional cost.  It’s Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), and it’s costing manufacturers thousands of lost man hours and millions of dollars in insurance medical claims yearly.  Consider the following facts:

• CTS is associated with exerting high forces with a bent or twisted wrist which causes inflammation and swelling of the tissues passing through the carpal tunnel and compression of the median nerve.
   
• Workers may suffer for years with symptoms (hand pain, numbness, clumsiness, tingling and burning) without realizing they are job related.
   

• If left untreated, the results of CTS may mean expensive medical treatment (frequently surgery is required) and in some cases, can result in permanent disability.

Extensive research has proven that the reduction of CTS can be achieved through improved tool design and performance characteristics.  With the introduction of the first Acra-Pulse® air-hydraulic pulse tool in 1980, significant inroads were made in reducing worker injury by minimizing vibration, noise and torque reaction, while maintaining high levels of torque consistency. AIMCO now carries even more tools that help support ergonomic benefits for operators.

Over the last decade, AIMCO has been able to show that, not only does a more ergonomic tool reduce costs associated with cumulative trauma disorders, but also has a substantial impact on the other driving forces of the fastening process - productivity, tool reliability and product quality.  AIMCO knows that CTS is a major industry concern.  Let us help you reduce CTS with our products — designed with the worker in mind.