Human Builder permits users to populate their designs with male and female virtual humans based on 5th, 50th and 95th percentile (stature and weight). The manikin consists of 100 independent links and segments and 104 anthropometric variables. In addition, the manikin possesses 148 degrees of freedom that also take into account limits of joint mobility.

The Human Builder manikin can be manipulated using whole-body inverse kinematics and direct kinematics. Seven (7) default Inverse Kinematics handles control mannequin motion and accurately predict natural posture. Direct Kinematics can be employed to accurately "fine tune" manikin posture by manipulating individual segments in each degree of freedom.

The Human Builder Vision Analysis supports four types of vision simulation: binocular, ambinocular, monocular left and monocular right. Vision characteristics are displayed as peripheral cones, central cones and line of sight. A separate vision window ensures that the user can "see what the manikin sees….".

To ensure that users accommodate the correct target audience, they have the possibility to choose an appropriate European, American or Asian anthropometry database.

The Human Activity Analysis product evaluates all elements of human performance, from static posture analysis through to complex task activities. The Human Activity Analysis product possesses a range of tools and methods that specifically analyze how a manikin will interact with objects in the virtual environment. The NIOSH 81/91 and SNOOK&CIRIELLO equations measure the effects of lifting/lowering, pushing/pulling and carrying to fully optimize task performance. After inputting an initial and final task posture, a designer can determine a number of task variables such as Action Limit, Recommended Weight Limit, and Maximum Lifting/Lowering Weight. Benefits include accurately predicting human performance, ensuring conformance to health and safety standards and maximizing human comfort and safety.

Human Posture Analysis

The Human Posture Analysis Product permits users to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze all aspects of manikin posture. Whole body and localized postures can be examined, scored and iterated to determine operator comfort and performance throughout the complete range of task motion in accordance with published comfort databases. User-friendly dialogue panels provide postural information for all segments of the manikin and color-coding techniques ensure that problem areas can be quickly identified and iterated to optimize posture. The Human Posture Editor permits users to create their own specific comfort and strength library for the needs of each individual application.

Human Measurements Editor

In addition to 6 default manikins, users can create, by means of the "Human Measurements Editor", any human being from any population anywhere in the world. Users can amend all 104 anthropometric variables on the manikin, or manipulate a smaller number of "critical" variables and ask the Human Measurements Editor to determine the rest. These variables can be altered manually by inputting desired measurements in percentile value, unit measurement or by an intuitive "click and drag" graphical user interface. The Human Measurements Editor also has the capacity to define the Mean and Standard Deviation of all anthropometry variables. Using the unique SAFEWORK^® multi-normal technique, the Human Measurements Editor ensures that resultant manikins do exist in the target population. In addition, it is possible to specify the percentage of the population to be accommodated in the design using the SAFEWORK^® Boundary manikin technique. Validation studies have indicated 97% accuracy of the manikin.