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Design and Analysis of Ergonomic Transport Friendly Collapsible Executive Office Chair

P. Velmurugan, K. Vijay Anand

Abstract


Now a day’s office chairs are frequently used in all IT companies and industries. They are more in demand products of office furniture but are specifically designed for use in indoor workstation (or work area). It is difficult to transport from one place to another, as it is not collapsible and occupies large space in the working area as well as on the trucks. Therefore, to avoid this difficulty, design of the chair is modified based on its height and then examined for its reliability for outdoor purposes. This project is carried out to study the transportation problems by way of adding some mechanisms, and also considering all the ergonomics features related to overall comfort that would include chair height, chair depth, chair width, seat angle, and back rest support, etc. Hence, the new design of the executive office chair is useful for different purposes such as outdoor meeting, conference, seminars and training programs while to make it more users friendly as well as efficient for carrying large number of chairs for a single trip.

Keywords: transport problem, collapsible, adding mechanism, ergonomics chair, outdoor purpose, transport friendly

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijmd.v2i1.120

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