Ergonomic Energy Boost

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Innovations Report, Germany

New research suggests that teaching staff about improving their posture and working conditions in a manufacturing plant can boost productivity by more than fifty percent. Details of the research will published in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Oguzhan Erdinc of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Turkish Air Force Academy and Ozalp Vayvay of the Department of Industrial Engineering, at Marmara University, in Istanbul, investigated how simple improvements in the working conditions of employees at a clothes factory could improve performance and reduce the number of faulty “seconds” being produced by an apparel factory.

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