Manual assembly workstation redesign based on a new quantitative method for postural comfort evaluation

Applied Mechanics and Materials

Volumn 459, Issue , 2013, Pages 368-379

  Naddeo, Alessandro ^a   Cappetti, Nicola ^a   Califano, Rosaria ^a   Vallone, Mariarosaria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comfort evaluation criteria; Digital human modeling; Ergonomics; Not invasive postural analysis; Re design

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY; COMFORT EVALUATION; CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; DIGITAL HUMAN MODELING; EVALUATION CRITERIA; POSTURAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; RE-DESIGN;

ASSEMBLY MACHINES; ERGONOMICS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84887555960     PISSN: 16609336     EISSN: 16627482     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.459.368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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