ERGONOMICS AND FURNITURE

The competition has grown with the market marked by the globalization, and because of it, design and ergonomics have been activities that are, today, known and applied in different segments.

These interdisciplinary sciences, for many times used and broadcasted in the products as a marketing and selling strategy, intend to, among others aspects, optimize the planning and the execution of projects, improving the relation between the users’ usage and satisfaction for each kind of products.

Due to the fact that has gotten bigger the amount of products offered with a similar level of high technology, the consuming marketing furniture field is showing itself as more exigent, establishing higher quality standards in products (PAZETTO, 2006) and claiming to manufacturers certificates that show conformity to the valid technical norms.

Besides, the market requirement for safe products, that at the same time please the function for what they were created, makes the ergonomics and the normative specifications become essential in the whole process of products design (PERUZZI, 1998 and BEZERRA, 2005).

This way, the observation and the application of technical norms and of ergonomic factors in products design, particularly in the furniture segment, are fundamental, nowadays, to the products survival in market and to make sure the attendance to the users’ needs concerning to their health, comfort, efficiency, trust, last and usability.

Ergonomic design is a technology that purpose create functional, usable, and safe products in human terms, and its focus is the user, and its main aim is to make sure operability, safety and easy usage of the products – “easy to use, easy to learn” (MORAES, 1993).

Furniture design associated to technical norms and to ergonomics collaborates to the relations of these products usability through manufacture optimization and products usage facility. Related to the environment, application of ergonomic and technical factors helps to reduce the waste and to increase the products’ life cycle.

The same is been followed for Hotel Furniture. So that guest is very comfortable during his stay and is satisfied.