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Lean manufacturing philosophy has been perceived by numerous organizations in order to respond to economic recession occurred at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Two key reasons for this trend are associated with attempting to cost reduction and customer satisfaction improvement. Along with this issue, a broad research domain for investigation is created for scholars. There is a dearth of published information about the relationship between lean manufacturing and ergonomics. This idea was the initial interest of this work. While ergonomics concerns improving worker’s productivity through adaptation between people and their job, lean tools and techniques provide overall productivity within the workplace through waste elimination from work processes. Thus, it seems that lean manufacturing and ergonomics can be interlinked. By identifying the interrelations between ergonomics and lean manufacturing, both can be addressed simultaneously. In addition, the synergism between lean and ergonomics can be achievable. In the present study, existing literatures are analyzed to better understand the common viewpoints between lean manufacturing and ergonomics.
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Khani Jazani, R., Salehi Sahlabadi, A., Mousavi, S.S. (2018). Relationship Between Lean Manufacturing and Ergonomics. In: Trzcielinski, S. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics of Manufacturing: Managing the Enterprise of the Future. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 606. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60474-9_15
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