The dominating paradigms have undergone changes in recent years.

Subsequently ergonomics and

operational setting issues were frequently at the center of the conflict for bargaining between
unions and organization, usually alleged before belief that ergonomic improvements are expensive,
and the benefits was uncertain. Ergonomics recognized by comprehensive information in various
places such as technological innovation, structure, sociology and thinking of the ergonomist
extremely able of determining the customer needs extensively. Experience and knowledge in using
quality techniques would probably further increase the proficiency of the ergonomist. The basic aim
of the Quality plus ergonomics is to fulfill the requirements of the user. A creation built by adapting
the ergonomics and quality concepts gives a high-quality ergonomic product that can quickly deal
with high-end human capabilities and boundaries. In this area of product development (Marsot and
Claudon 2004; Marsot 2005; Nagamachi 1995, 2002) various methods like QFD (Keith and Derek
1994; Haapalainen et al. 2000; Leppanen et al. 2000; Marsot 2005; Tsai et al. 2008) and Kansei
Engineering (Chen et al. 2015; Hartono 2012; Huang et al. 2011; Ishihara 1997; Nagamachi 1995,
2002) have been used mainly by researchers for developing the new product design, and also
concluded QFD and Kansei Engineering as the best approach for simplifying and finding the best
target characteristics for design. These both methods have friendly and systematically approach and
could be having compatibility with ergonomics principles for giving advantageous results. The QFD
was a famous and a methodical approach that centered on the impression of adjusting knowledge to
users. Kansei Engineering was a technique to transfer a user’s unclear appearance of product into
detailed plan (Nagamachi 1995; Ishihara et al. 1997). Kansei Engineering and QFD give good results
for manufacturing, and the only QFD is suitable for almost all areas. So QFD is a right approach for
broad applicability and better outcomes. QFD is basic approach to improving the quality of product
by using the interrelation matrix (HOQ) which uses these methods during implementation (Shown in
Fig. 1): • User’s requirements (What’s) • Design Parameters (How’s) • Correlations between What’s
and How’s • Importance rating of user requirements • Correlation between design parameters •
Competitive analysis for user needs • Engineering analysis for design needs • Target value for
identification of importance of design parameters and technical difficulties • Importance ratings

The literature contains readings displaying a strong association between, on the first hand, poor
working conditions and, on the other, effects on human performance from the various awkward
postures. This study analyses the works matching the different fields of ergonomics plus quality in
different areas, comprising working conditions with awkward position in the long hour of working.
To improve the conditions of work and to reduce the fatigue during the work in the agriculture field,
this is crucial to find the relationships between the ergonomics and various quality and productivity
factors. This analysis will be done by examining the different works of literature from agriculture as
well as other sectors (Haapalainen et al. 2000; Meena and Dangayach 2012; Meena et al. 2013,
2014a, 2014b; Jain et al. (in press)). Table 1 shows the tools improved by using the various quality
and ergonomics principles

Table 1 Investigation studies on various tools Reference Tool for investigation Tool of application
Bergquist and Abeysekera (1996) Safety shoes QFD Ishihara et al. (1997) Shoes Kansei Engineering
Leppanen et al. (2000) Pruning tool QFD Haapalainen et al. (2000) Hand tool QFD Marsot (2005)
Knife QFD Tsai et al. (2008) Mobile assisting devices QFD Kuijt-Evers et al. (2009) Hand tool QFD
Chen et al. (2015) Home delivery Kansei Engineerin