Threats and opportunities for workplace ergonomics in lean environments
Lean Management Systems (LMS) have become very popular among the manufacturing industry, services and large commercial areas. A LMS must develop and consider a set of work energizers to bring compatibility with workplace ergonomics, namely at a muscular, cognitive, and emotional demands level. The g...
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| Format: | conferencePaper |
| Language: | por |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/19111 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/19111 |
| Summary: | Lean Management Systems (LMS) have become very popular among the manufacturing industry, services and large commercial areas. A LMS must develop and consider a set of work energizers to bring compatibility with workplace ergonomics, namely at a muscular, cognitive, and emotional demands level. The goal of this study is the identification of the most relevant impacts of a LMS adoption from the ergonomic point of view and cited in the literature and the synthesis of some possible drawbacks in workplace ergonomics due to a flawed application of the LMS. A final discussion about the most important, positive and negative, impacts are present at the end of the paper. |
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