Interactive production planning and ergonomic assessment with Digital Human Models - Introducing the Editor for Manual Work Activities (ema)

The aging workforce is a risk factor for manufacturing industries that contain many jobs with high physical workloads. Thus, ergonomic risk factors have to be avoided in early phases of production planning. This paper introduces a new tool for simulating manual work activities with 3D human models,...

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Published in:Work Vol. 41; pp. 4428 - 4433
Main Authors: Soares, Marcelo M., Jacobs, Karen, Fritzsche, Lars, Leidholdt, Wolfgang, Bauer, Sebastian, Jäckel, Thomas, Moreno, Adrian
Format: Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. 2012 Supplement
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