3D Virtual Ergonomics Design
Did you know that virtual and advanced ergonomics can provide you with quantitative and measurable data for your projects? You can count on Ergonovix to ensure the success of your design projects by reducing development and rework costs.
Ergonomic product development and environmental design
Universal Design
Ergonovix services include studies and analyzes of your projects and construction plans to assess upstream the risks related to work methods and potential human errors to eliminate MSDs and accelerate your project by reducing rework.
Ergonovix’ s goal is to help you develop products tailored to populations with specific challenges. Our ergonomics and anthropometrics expertise combined with Industrial Design virtual 3D skills will support your needs to design products and environment fit for everyday life in adapted environments.
Universal Design
Ergonovix’ s goal is to help you develop products tailored to populations with specific challenges. Our ergonomics and anthropometrics expertise combined with Industrial Design virtual 3D skills will support your needs to design products and environment fit for everyday life in adapted environments.
Virtual ergonomics
Ergonomic design, specifications and standards
The digital human model (DHM) used directly at the design stage in the computer drawing system makes it possible to verify the reach, obstructions, vision, for various populations. The DHM’s tool suite considers the anthropometry variability of women and men from the smallest to the taller statures.
Ergonovix’s services ensure your peace of mind by guiding you towards using the appropriate design guidelines and standards to meet your certification requirements. We develop tailored guidelines for designers to help them achieve the integration of ergonomics principles in their design.
Ergonomic design, specifications and standards
Ergonovix’s services ensure your peace of mind by guiding you towards using the appropriate design guidelines and standards to meet your certification requirements. We develop tailored guidelines for designers to help them achieve the integration of ergonomics principles in their design.
Verification and validation
Mentoring and coaching
At Ergonovix, we verify your projects and identify the gaps to meet specifications and design standards in your particular field of work. We specify optimal manual handling loads for lifting, pushing-pulling and carrying, the neutral postures to maintain during a task, the frequency and duration not to be exceeded in order to eliminate Musculo Skeletal Disorders (MSDs) in your workplace.
Ergonovix aims at easing your periods of transition with our knowledge transfer service. We will expertly guide you to accelerate the development of your products and environments and train the next generation. Ergonovix also offers conferences on various ergonomics subjects.
Mentoring and coaching
Ergonovix aims at easing your periods of transition with our knowledge transfer service. We will expertly guide you to accelerate the development of your products and environments and train the next generation. Ergonovix also offers conferences on various ergonomics subjects.
Training
Our training courses are offered to designers wishing to improve their skills when using the digital human model in 3D. The training includes ergonomics best practices and selection of the right guides and standards to meet ergonomic design of products and environments. We cover different ergonomics workbenches of the Dassault Systèmes DHM software including Human Builder, Human Measurements, Human Activity Analysis etc.
WHY ERGONOMICS IS A FUNDAMENTAL HEALTH DISCIPLINE IN COMPUTER-ASSISTED DESIGN (CAD)?
Ergonomics is a fundamental discipline for preserving and improving our health through the use of properly designed products and environments. Thoughtful ergonomics design enhances human relationships and performances.
Virtual ergonomics analysis, also known as 3D ergonomics, are produced using the digital human model (DHM) and complement the field of engineering and industrial design. DHM studies are done from a computer-assisted design (CAD) software and allow the integration of digital humans in CAD environments in order to visualize the human scale and create products and environment that meet anthropometric standards and ensure that the task will be carried out according to ergonomic principles.
The ultra-sophisticated software is based on studies and tools developed by scientific communities like biomechanics university programs, institutes like NIOSH and the global surveys CAESAR, ANSUR etc., measuring various populations to ensure that digital humans faithfully represent the worker’s population and their capacity. For example, movement and joint’s limits will be based on the average of the people who have been measured. The software also makes it possible to personalize the avatars to represent disabilities and anthropometric variations depending on the case.
The healthcare industry is rife with examples where equipment design is critical. The tools used by surgeons must protect the health of patients but also protect the surgeon himself against errors and injuries.
Ergonomic principles however, are often neglected when designing factory worker’s tools. Yet the cost associated with designing products and environments without using a human scale, in the CAD system and resorting to DHM to verify and validate the ergonomics before production are enormous, if they create injuries and require reworking the project. In addition, occupational health and safety regulations provide for severe penalties when employers neglect the health of their employees. 3D ergonomics must therefore be present from the design phase in order to implement the concepts of Prevention through Design according to the ANSI / ASSP Z590.3 standards, in order to avoid litigation and above all protect the health of employees.
The use of DHM is also very practical for analyzing existing workstations. It allows to discover musculoskeletal type risks to watch out for and for proposing solutions that improve working postures. The ergonomist can use photos and videos to reproduce risky environments and communicate the results to engineers. The DHM software is very visual and since a picture is worth a thousand words, visualizing quantitative analyzes before and after the introduction of the proposed solution is invaluable in promoting communication and rapid decision-making. The analyzes are reproducible and support design changes that can be quickly re-evaluated by demonstrating improvements interactively.
The benefits of using 3D ergonomics are multiple. The DHM can be used to quickly check working postures for many different types of users. The importance of designing products that can be used by both smaller and taller people without causing injury is a benefit to health, economic performance and the company’s employer’s brand.
The Digital Human Model makes it possible to assess whether mechanics will be able to access parts while being able to see their task, thus avoiding errors and promoting a better posture.
The risk analysis related to repetitive tasks, to the forces required to lift, pull-push and manipulate loads and how to avoid injuries with 3D ergonomics, can guide the designers to optimize their project while improving the health of users.
The benefits of using virtual ergonomics for the worker’s health are multiple. Protecting the health of employees against musculoskeletal injuries is an essential element to consider but also, reducing the cost of injuries, development times and rework can keep business operations healthy.
Finally, verifying and validating the quality of projects in order to meet standards while avoiding litigation can be done in virtual mode quickly and economically.
As an expert Ergonomist in Digital Human Modeling, I have seen multiple situations where ergonomics was improved and development time lowered. You can see some examples of case studies in my blogs.
