Process Simulate Human
Manual assembly design and analysis
Process Simulate Human from Tecnomatix allows users to verify the design of a workstation, ensuring that product parts can be reached, assembled and maintained. Process Simulate Human provides powerful tools to analyze and optimize the ergonomics of a human operation, ensuring that the process meets or exceeds industry standards for ergonomics. Processes and workstations designed using the available human performance tools are much more likely to avoid worker injury risk, enhance worker efficiency and result in improved product quality. Using the human simulation tools, a user can perform realistic simulations of proposed tasks long before designs pass to the manufacturing facility, offering early and cost effective opportunity to eliminate potential concerns.
Human Simulation
Humans of various shapes and sizes can be loaded into your simulation environment through the simple click of a button. Rapid posturing techniques allow you to quickly simulate task sequences and analyze them. A comprehensive set of ergonomic analysis tools is available, including industry standard methods to evaluate posture, strength and injury risk conditions. Further, the 3D manikins can be scaled to match your worker population, allowing for accurate assessments of fit, clearance and reach scenarios.
Introducing ergonomics into your virtual manufacturing verification process can promote efficiencies in workstation layout, reduce cost of workstation verification, increase worker well-being and improve worker productivity.
Product Featues
- Female and male models that can be scaled to match population stature and weight percentiles, or custom dimensions
- Comprehensive suite of ergonomic analysis tools
- Ability to define customer specific ergonomic analyses and reports
- Industry leading posturing methods to quickly simulate task conditions
- Eye view windows and field-of-vision analysis
- Reach envelopes for fast workplace configuration
- Movie and screen captures for documentation and presentations
- Optional Virtual Reality Motion Capture hardware support
User Benefits:
- Reduce injury risk and increase quality through improved ergonomics mes
- Reduce time spent on process planning and validation
- Improve communication of engineering issues
- Visually capture best-practices
Detailed Design of Manual Operations
Process Simulate Human provides a virtual 3D environment in which manual operations can be designed and optimized. Male and female human models can be scaled using anthropometric data collected from people throughout the world, to ensure that workplace designs can accommodate a wide range of populations. Working postures are easily and accurately generated using whole body posturing methods, posture libraries, reach, grasp and walk prediction tools or through standard joint manipulation.
Checking the Feasibility of Tasks
Process Simulate Human provides capabilities to detect collisions between the human and environment and to analyze reach requirements for manual tasks. In order to see a task from the worker’s eyes, a real-time eye view window can be used, as well as vision cones to display potential blind spots for the worker.
Ergonomic Analysis
Physical demands can be assessed using the Ergonomic analysis tools embedded within Process Simulate. These tools span postural screening methods such as RULA and OWAS to advanced biomechanical assessments, including the evaluation of low back shear and compressive forces, as well as joint strength capabilities. The integration of the Static Strength Prediction tool from the University of Michigan provides information on the estimated strength capabilities of your population, and it can help identify maximum exertion thresholds for a task. If lifting is a primary concern, the user can enter job parameters into the NIOSH Lifting Index and receive feedback about the maximum acceptable weight that should be handled. Process Simulate Human also includes a unique tool called the Force Solver, which allows the user to account for task frequency and duration when applying the strength equations from the University of Michigan. These factors will help to predict what the maximum acceptable loads can be for a particular task or worker posture.
Time Analysis
With Process Simulate Human, assembly cycle times can be determined by using the Methods Time Measurement system. This widely accepted standard for estimating cycle times can be used in evaluate workstation design concepts to find the most efficient process.
Generating Manufacturing Information
Process Simulate Human, in combination with Technical Publishing, can be used to generate work instructions containing snapshots and animations. These documents provide excellent training material for workers on the shop floor, and can be distributed throughout the enterprise over the Web.
