Productivity and discomfort in assembly work: The effects of an ergonomic workplace adjustment at philips DAP

Comfort and Design: Principles and Good Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 129-136

  De Looze, M P ^a   Van Rhijn, J W ^a   Schoenmaker, N ^a   Van Der Grinten, M P ^a   Van Deursen, J ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

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