Ergonomic design of non-powered hand tools: An application of quality function deployment (QFD)

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 179-189

  Haapalainen, Mika ^a   Kivistö Rahnasto, Jouni ^a,b   Mattila, Markku ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ergonomic design; Pruning hand tools; Quality function deployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010641673     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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