“Workers” perform maintenance tasks on a helicopter still at concept design stage. Ergonomic analysis can now be performed at the very beginning of the product design lifecycle. A true “Designing for maintainability” design philosophy

Workers in a car manufacturing facility. Analyses such as reach, vision and force determine whether the plant layout will accommodate the entire workforce population.

Cockpit accommodation. SAFEWORK^® Manikins are used to determine positioning of C&I based on the anthropometry characteristics of the pilot population.

Postural analysis predicts any unacceptable postures during construction work. The SAFEWORK^® postural analysis module provides the user with complete information on local and global postures

Human Performance Analysis in the manufacturing industry. Analysis can prove that workers are not carrying loads that are too heavy. In this scene, SAFEWORK^® is used to determine the maximum permitted load as suggested by NIOSH.

Pilot Ingress simulation. The SAFEWORK^® Task Simulation Module proves acceptable ingress and egress procedures.

Maintenance Procedure Design. SAFEWORK^® supports multiple manikin analysis to examine co-operative working environments.

Anyplace. Any time. SAFEWORK^® has been used to simulate working procedures of astronauts in the most hostile working environments.

Civilian aircraft cabin design. In this case study, SAFEWORK^® analyses passenger leg clearance, aircraft aisle space and overhead bin location. The manikin is driven by Virtual Reality.

A worker is analysed against a number of ergonomics variables whilst performing a tire change.

Experience a proposed airport control tower before it exists…In this scene, state of the art motion capture devices, combined with a Head Mounted Display and data Gloves, allows full “immersion” into the airport tower control while driving the movement to the manikin itself.

Virtual Reality. In this example, the SAFEWORK^® Virtual Reality Module is used to automatically, and intuitively, capture the subject’s anthropometry characteristics.

Driver comfort and safety are paramount issues for car manufacturers. The SAFEWORK^® boundary manikin technique ensures that the entire targeted population is accommodated in design.

This case study simulates the operating procedures of a medical scanner in order to assess its accommodation of the targeted population. Reach analysis, posture analysis and vision analysis ensure a safe, reliable and user-friendly product.

Clothing simulation analyses the effects on armoured personnel carrier ingress and egress whilst wearing specialist clothing

Warehouse Packaging Industry. In this case study, multiple SAFEWORK^® analyses (reach, push/pull, carry, lift/lower analysis) determine task constraints. The results were used to modify the tasks in order to best accommodate the targeted population.

This case study simulates, with great accuracy, a specific driver anthropometry. The ‘virtual’ representation of the driver can be used to design the cockpit without the physical presence of the real driver.

Heavy Equipment design. SAFEWORK^® vision analysis, posture analysis and anthropometry module have been used to redesign the vehicle operator’s cabin.

Car manufacturing process design. The SAFEWORK/ERGO link leverages ERGO functionality such as MTM analysis in addition to the standard SAFEWORK^® analysis suite.