An experimental investigation on ergonomically designed assembly workstation

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 296-321

  Garbie, Ibrahim H ^a,b  

^a Engineering Department   (Egypt)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Assembly lines; Design of experiments; Ergonomic design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

ASSEMBLY LINE; COLLEGE STUDENTS; ERGONOMIC DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL FACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPERATOR PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; REGRESSION MODEL;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84897546390     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2014.060131     Document Type: Article

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