Additive Manufacturing (AM) facilitates product personalization and iterative design, which makes it an ideal
technology for ergonomic product development. In this study, a systematic review was conducted of the liter ature regarding the use of AM in ergonomic-product design, and methodological aspects of the studies were
analyzed. A literature search was performed using the keywords “3D print*,” “additive manufacturing,” “ergo nomic*” and “human factors”. Included were studies reporting the use of AM specifically in ergonomic design of
products/prototypes including the detailing of an ergonomic testing methodology used for evaluation. Forty
studies were identified pertaining to the fields of medicine, assistive technology, wearable technology, hand
tools, testing devices and others. The most commonly used technology was fused deposition modeling with
polylactic acid, but the overall preferred material was acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. Various combinations of
objective/subjective and qualitative/quantitative product evaluation methods were used. Based on the findings,
recommendations were developed to facilitate the choice of most suitable AM technologies and materials for
specific applications in ergonomics.
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Development of theoretical and experimental criteria for predicting the wear resistance of austenitic steels and nanostructured coatings based on a hard alloy under conditions of erosion-corrosion wear