Increasing short-term output in assembly work

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 470-477

  Looze, Michiel P de ^a,b   Bosch, T ^a   van Rhijn, J W ^a  

^a Quality of Life   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discomfort; Manual assembly; Productivity; Work rest

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; ASSEMBLY MACHINES;

ASSEMBLY LINE DESIGN; ASSEMBLY WORKS; DISCOMFORT; MANUAL ASSEMBLY; NEW APPROACHES; OUTPUT RATE; PEAK DEMAND; PHYSICAL LOADS; PRODUCTIVITY RATE; WORK/REST;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84861450656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15206564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hfm.20199     Document Type: Article

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