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Ergonomics as Significant Factor of Sustainable Production

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Technology Management for Sustainable Production and Logistics

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Europe 2020 is development strategy set by European Union for next decade. According to José Manuel Barroso (2014) in EU continuously changing intelligent and sustainable economy growth is needed as it is favorable not only to put attention and protection about natural environment and ecosystem but also to bigger proactive social commitment. Parallel work on these priorities should help EU organization as also member countries in economy prosperity grow in global perspective through increase of employment, productivity, social cohesion. Moreover it should be achieved also by negative influence on environment downscaling (especially in waste management) and bigger employers responsibility awareness of working conditions.

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    First Pass Yield (FPY) [0–100 %] is number of found nonconformance to total number of nonconformance available to find.

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  1. Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 60-965, Poznań, Poland

    Agnieszka Kujawińska, Katarzyna Vogt & Fryderyk Wachowiak

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  1. Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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Kujawińska, A., Vogt, K., Wachowiak, F. (2015). Ergonomics as Significant Factor of Sustainable Production. In: Golińska, P., Kawa, A. (eds) Technology Management for Sustainable Production and Logistics. EcoProduction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33935-6_10

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