Manual Assembly Workstation Redesign Based on a New Quantitative Method for Postural Comfort Evaluation (original) (raw)

Alessandro Naddeo

2013, Applied Mechanics and Materials

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Main purpose of this work is to show how easy and economics an ergonomic/comfort based approach, in re-design a manual assembly workplace, can be; authors, using a new comfort/ergonomic evaluation criterion, analyzed a workstation, then identified the critical issues under ergonomic/comfort point of view and finally gave several guidelines to re-design the workplace, implementing minor modification, and improve work-safety, work-quality and productivity.