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Systematic workplace and assembly redesign for aging workforces

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Aging workforces of production companies reflect aging populations in most early industrialized countries due to demographic change. Especially in the manual serial assembly, with its high pressure for cost reduction, the amount of disabled and handicapped who cannot meet all the requirements rises with a higher average age of the employees. Therefore, production structures and workplaces for consciously taking into account the demographic change are necessary in the future. For a broad economic acceptance, the assumption must be a direct integration of the older employees into value adding processes without declining productivity or changing approved assembly organization setups. This paper shows a new systematic approach and proposes the use of special degrees of freedom for a successful integration of elderly.

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Zaeh, M.F., Prasch, M. Systematic workplace and assembly redesign for aging workforces. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 1, 57–64 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-007-0001-4

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