ERGONOMIC ASPECTS OF REAL AND VIRTUAL WELDING TOOLS

Anamaria Ioana FEIER, Felicia Veronica BANCIU

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In the past years, human factor (ergonomics) has assumed a point of crucial importance in engineering, design, development, service and maintenance sectors of industrial products and welding is a big part of this. In this paper, it will be presented the principals aspects and recommendations regarding ergonomics in welding sectors and also will be presented a case study of a welding tool (torch). The paper finally concludes with some recommendations related the used of welding tool (torch) and with a recommendation of a new study on ergonomics on Virtually Reality.


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