Foot motions in manual material handling transfer tasks: A taxonomy and data from an automotive assembly plant

Ergonomics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 362-383

  Wagner, David W ^a   Kirschweng, Rebecca L ^a   Reed, Matthew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifting; Manual material handling; Step; Taxonomy; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; APPROACH ANGLE; ASSEMBLY PLANTS; AUTOMOTIVE ASSEMBLIES; BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; DEPARTURE ANGLE; DIGITAL HUMAN MODELS; ERGONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOOT PLACEMENTS; INFORMATION SHEETS; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; LIFTING; LOWER EXTREMITY; MANUAL MATERIAL HANDLING; PICKING UP; PICKUP AND DELIVERY; POSTURAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; STEP; TASK ELEMENTS; TASK TYPE; TRANSFER; VIDEO DATA;

BIOMECHANICS; ERGONOMICS; JOB ANALYSIS; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; TAXONOMIES; VIDEO RECORDING;

MATERIALS HANDLING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ERGONOMICS; FOOT; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB ANALYSIS; JOB PERFORMANCE; LEG MOVEMENT; LIFTING EFFORT; MANUAL LABOR; MATERIALS HANDLING; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATOR; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TAXONOMY; VIDEORECORDING; BODY POSTURE; GAIT; INDUSTRY; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; WEIGHT BEARING;

FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; POSTURE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 67650354868     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130802376034     Document Type: Article

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