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Tempe is a traditional food that is popular in Indonesia. Tempe consists of soaking, boiling, grinding, transferring, zymosis, packaging, and finally, the storage process. The packaging process is the process that causes the most musculoskeletal disorders. Complaints about the packaging process occur because of the wrong sitting position, repeated within 6-7 hours per day. Identification using Nordic Body Maps scored 71. This condition indicates a high level of risk for musculoskeletal disorders. The packaging process includes 88.89% complaints of pain in the buttocks, 77.78% in the hips, 66.78% in the waist, 55.56% on the back, and 44,44% on the right arm, 33.33% on the right wrist. This research develops a packaging process tool using the Kansei Engineering method. The tool’s design is made according to the consumer’s wishes based on "Kansei words," and the manufacture of dimensions is based on anthropometry. Based on the validity test using a significance level of 5% obtained a marginal homogeneity value > 0.05 which indicates the design follows the wishes of consumers. Meanwhile, for the convenience attribute test using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, the asym.sig (2 tailed) value was obtained at 0.040<0.05, which indicates a significant difference between the packaging process before and after using the tool. The user satisfaction test using the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) shows an average value of > 0.8. A score of 0.8 on the UEQ indicates that the user is satisfied with the design.