Publication year: 2011 Source: Computers & Industrial Engineering, Available online 28 October 2011 Zhan Xu, Jeonghan Ko, David J. Cochran, Myung-Chul Jung Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are common occupational diseases among assembly workers due to repetitive motions or heavy workloads. The conventional approaches to decreasing WMSDs in assembly workers usually focus on individual assembly work at the station level.
Design of Assembly Lines with the Concurrent Consideration of Productivity and Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders using Linear Models
Publication year: 2011 Source: Computers & Industrial Engineering, Available online 28 October 2011 Zhan Xu, Jeonghan Ko, David J. Cochran, Myung-Chul Jung Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are common occupational diseases among assembly workers due to repetitive motions or heavy workloads. The conventional approaches to decreasing WMSDs in assembly workers usually focus on individual assembly work at the station level.