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Ergonomic characterization of three sugar cane harvester machinery models

Author(s) -

Sim otilde es Danilo,

Gustavo Santin Luis,

Torres Fenner Paulo

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

african journal of agricultural research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1991-637X

DOI - 10.5897/ajar2015.10695

Subject(s) - sugar cane , agricultural engineering , mechanization , agricultural machinery , agriculture , cane , production (economics) , business , computer science , operations management , engineering , sugar , geography , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , macroeconomics

Due to the latest expansion on Brazilian agricultural area, there has been growing demand for field machinery usage aiming at increasing operational efficiency along with cost reduction on production as well as searching for improvement of working conditions. This paper aimed at ergonomic characterization comparing three models of agricultural harvesters on sugar cane plantations in order to provide information to help decision takers. Each harvester was analysed in 157 items. Results showed that ergonomic design in the three analyzed harvesters had high safety level to operators. Nevertheless, there is the necessity of improvement in some analysed items within operator’s working place. Key words: Anthropometry, agricultural mechanization, ergonomics, Saccharum species, safety.

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