Introducción: Se realizó un estudio para relacionar la ergonomía y los trastornos músculo esquelético en el aérea de fabricación jean´s del Consorcio Jean´s Ramos Llerena con exposición a posturas trabajo movimientos repetitivos utilizando índice OCRA, método REBA Cuestionario Nórdico Estandarizado, se verificó presencia esqueléticos cuello región dorsal o lumbar debido inadecuadas, así como ta...

Winter vineyard pruning is mainly manual (Schillaci et al., 2009), with the use of traditional secateurs. During pruning cuts follow on from one another in rapid succession and with a certain regularity and hence this operation characterised by high frequency and a stereotypic load on the upper limbs can in time cause WMSDs, (Work related Muscular Skeletal Disorders). The aim of the work was to...

The variability in customer demands necessitates careful monitoring of production processes. At this point, supplier selection, which is the first and most important stage production, gains importance. However, selection problem affected by many criteria with different weights depending on area. In addition, today's intense competition, such problems are too to be left intuition parties. case, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats promised Thursday to speed an economic recovery package through Congress, but vowed to rearrange President Bush’s budget proposal to ben­ efit m iddle-income Americans, not the rich. “ Democrats w ill not obstruct, but we w ill try to improve the p re s id e n t’s p acka ge ,” sa id House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., as the Budget Committee began hearings...

Abstract This paper introduces a web-platform system that performs semi-automatic compute of several risk indexes, based on the considered evaluation method (e.g., RULA—Rapid Upper Limb Assessment, REBA—Rapid Entire Body OCRA—OCcupational Repetitive Action) to support ergonomics estimation, and provides augmented analytics proactively improve ergonomic monitoring characteristics workers age, ge...

In the railway domain, an electronic interlocking is a computerised system that controls the railway signalling components (e.g. switches or signals) in order to allow a safe operation of the train traffic. Interlockings are controlled by a software logic that relies on a generic software and a set of application data particular to the station under control. The verification of the application ...