Manual Picking from Large Containers - Time Efficiency and Physical Workload

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Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1703-1708

  Hanson, Robin ^a   Medbo, Lars ^a   Jukic, Patrik ^a   Assaf, Majeed ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b VOLVO AERO CORPORATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Kit preparation; large containers; order picking; physical workload; time efficiency

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ERGONOMICS; PALLETS;

INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS; KIT PREPARATION; ORDER PICKING; PHYSICAL WORKLOADS; PICKING TIME; TIME EFFICIENCIES;

CONTAINERS;

EID: 84992364774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24058963     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.07.827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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