Ergonomic design criteria for pruning shears

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 163-177

  Päivinen, Minna ^a   Haapalainen, Mika ^a   Mattila, Markku ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Design criteria; Gardening; Hand tool; Pliers; Quality function deployment (QFD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 26344440195     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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