Overview
- Highlights cutting edge technology for ergonomic design and industrial safety
- Elaborates on current applications of tools and techniques under different conditions, constraints, and special requirements
- Deals with complex human systems, environment interface while implementing integrated design for ergonomic and safety principles in manufacturing and service organizations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Managing the Asian Century (MAAC)
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About this book
This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the area of ergonomic design. Chapters are extensions of works presented at the International Conference on Management of Ergonomic Design, Industrial Safety and Healthcare Systems. The book addresses the need to have the knowledge of ergonomics, human factors engineering and safety engineering in order to make worksystems ergonomically designed, operationally safe and productive. It is a useful resource for students, researchers, industrial professionals, and design engineers.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pradip Kumar Ray is presently a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, has more than twenty eight years of teaching, research and consultancy experience as well as eight years of industrial experience. He has published one text book titled ‘Product and Process Design for Quality Economy and Reliability’, thirteen book chapters, six lecture packages, and around 167 papers in international and national journals of repute and conferences in the areas of healthcare management, productivity measurement and evaluation, quality design and control, TQM, process optimization, ergonomics/human factors engineering, safety engineering and management and other related topics. His areas of interest and research include productivity modeling, quality engineering, ergonomics, safety engineering, engineering asset management and JIT-based/lean engineering operations management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ergonomic Design of Products and Worksystems - 21st Century Perspectives of Asia
Editors: Pradip Kumar Ray, Jhareswar Maiti
Series Title: Managing the Asian Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5457-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5456-3Published: 23 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5402-1Published: 11 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5457-0Published: 11 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2364-5857
Series E-ISSN: 2364-5865
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 180
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Enterprise Architecture, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk