Industrial Engineer Engineering and Management Solutions at Work

July 2012    |    Volume: 44    |    Number: 7

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Case Study

Solutions in practice

The right arms for ergonomics

There may have been a time when technicians at the GE Aviation facility in Durham, N.C., expected to go home at the end of an average workday with numb fingers, strained muscles and sore backs. But creativity changed that for good.


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