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Archive for May 2009

Ergonomics – What is it?

Posted by: Auditya on: May 16, 2009

You may have heard of the term ‘ergonomics’. This is sometimes referred to as ‘human factors’ in US or bioengineering in Scandinavian (?). Not everyone really understands what ergonomics is, what it does, or how it affects people. Survey in UK in 1992 showed that only 5% of the UK population could give an accurate [...]

To address with the transition to an industrializing production economy, the Malaysian manufacturing sector has been upgrading into the higher-tech, higher value-added and more sophisticated global manufacturing environment. The increase of manufacturing process complexity shifts the nature of the human operator’s task from an emphasis on perceptual motor skills or psychomotor activities to an emphasis [...]


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