Safety and Risk Management in Designing for the Lifecycle of an Exoskeleton: A Novel Process Developed in the Robo-Mate Project

Procedia Manufacturing

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 1410-1417

  van der Vorm, Johan ^a   Nugent, Rachel ^b   O'Sullivan, Leonard ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Design; Emerging risk; Industrial exoskeleton; Innovation; Risk management; Robo Mate; Safety experiencing; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009963972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23519789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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