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• Pressure to Increase Revenue
– Product innovation
• Increase number of product ideas conceptualized)
– Addressing global markets
• Need to Optimize Products for Human Interactions
– Safety, comfort, and usability are top priorities
• Product Development Efficiency
– Faster time-to-market
• Reuse IP
• Reduce the number of design iterations
– Reduce costs
• Reduce physical prototypes, production re-work,
and maintenance cost
• Standards Compliance
CUSTOMER DESIGN CHALLENGES
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• Reduce time, budget and obsolescence associated
with physical prototypes
• Ensure conformance with safety, health, ergonomics
and workplace standards and guidelines
• Ensure product designs are optimized for the target
audience within the overall global market
• Communicate and share complex human-product
interaction issues using a strong, and clearly
communicable, visual simulation solution
• Track the impact of design changes against the
physical characteristics of end users, thereby ensuring
a “human-centric” approach to design
KEY BENEFITS OF CREO MANIKIN
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What does Manikin Lite provide?
• Scalable, affordable, human modeling solution for the everyday designer
• User may load, place, edit placement and manipulate a Manikin in the scene
What are the limitations?
• One default Manikin model, limited tools for manipulation (2D drag and apply posture
only)
NOTE: Purchased Manikin Extension adds the capabilities to check reach envelopes, vision
cones, first person vision window & utilize an entire library of Manikins and Purchased Manikin
Analysis Extension adds multiple types of Ergonomics Analysis
NOTE: Support of this lite extension is available with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 M060 and later
MANIKIN LITE
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What does Manikin Extension provide?
• Human-centric design using digital human visualization and simulation
– Digital Human Model structure conforms to H-ANIM standard: ISO/IEC 19774
– Solution architecture designed specifically for PTC Creo
– Anthropometry support for a global target audience
Key Benefits:
• Reduce time, budget and obsolescence associated with physical prototypes
• Optimize products for your identified target audience within the overall global
market
• Communicate and share complex human-product interaction issues using a
strong, clearly communicable, visual simulation solution
PTC CREO MANIKIN EXTENSION
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EXAMPLE OF AN ERGONOMIC DESIGN CHALLENGE
• Products must be designed to meet consumer demands
– Human-centric design ensures the physical requirements are meet
– What happens when products fail to meet human factor criteria?
Desig
n Flaw
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EXAMPLE OF AN ERGONOMIC DESIGN CHALLENGE
• Machines must be designed to be operational
– Human-centric design ensures the physical requirements are meet
– What happens when products fail to meet human factor criteria?
Desig
n Flaw
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CREO MANIKIN: PTC CREO INTEGRATION
• Dedicated Toolset
– Manikin specific toolbar
• Leverage existing Creo Tools
• Adapted “Replace” Capability• Center of Gravity Analysis
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• Key Capabilities
– Quickly insert manikins into product model
– Customize manikins for target global population
– Manipulate manikins using specialized functions
or familiar PTC Creo commands
– Visualize vision and reach
– Analyze center of gravity
CREO MANIKIN: REACH AND VISION ANALYSIS
Vision Line of Sight
Vision line of sight
Reach EnvelopesVision Cones Reach Function Manikin’s “first person” View
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CREO MANIKIN: CUSTOMIZABLE LIBRARIES
• Libraries of Postures
– Create your own posture libraries
– Utilize extensive PTC provided postures
(Macro & Micro)
– Store new posture libraries in Windchill
1 Starting Posture
2 Select Posture 3 Apply Posture
Open Posture Library
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What does Manikin Analysis Extension provide?
• Standard tools to analyze user comfort while carrying out repetitive motions of
lifting, lowering, pushing or pulling
Key Benefits:
• Reduce time, budget and obsolescence associated with physical prototypes
• Ensure conformance with safety, health, ergonomics and workplace standards
and guidelines
• Optimize products for your identified target audience within the overall global
market
• Communicate and share complex human-product interaction issues using a
strong, clearly communicable, visual simulation solution
MANIKIN ANALYSIS EXTENSION
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• Key Capabilities
– Validate designs against guidelines
• Material Handling (RULA)
• Pushing/Pulling (Snook)
• Lifting/Lowering (Snook)
• Carrying (Snook)
• Lifting/Lowering (NIOSH)
– Repeatable analyses for different
target populations
CREO MANIKIN ANALYSIS EXTENSION
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CREO MANIKIN ANALYSIS: RULA
The Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) equation provides an analysis of the
manikin's upper limbs based on variables such as:
• Weight, Distance and Frequency
• Automatically evaluate manikin’s posture
– Height of hands
• User defined task variables
– Side, support, across mid-line,
static work, etc
• Provides detailed analysis results
– Global score 1to 7
– Includes Gravity
• Saved Analysis
– Saved as a feature
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CREO MANIKIN ANALYSIS: CARRYING ANALYSIS
Based on the SNOOK tables, this function analyzes the manikin carrying an object,
based on variables such as:
– Weight, Distance, Frequency and Duration
• Automatically evaluate manikin’s posture
– Height of hands
• Provides detailed analysis results
– Based on Design Goals
– %’age task accommodation for males
– %’age task accommodation for females
• Saved Analysis
– Saved as a feature
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CREO MANIKIN ANALYSIS: LIFTING/LOWERING ANALYSIS
Provides 2 ergonomics analyses of the manikin lifting/lowering an object:
• NIOSH 91 and SNOOK
• Require two postures (saved as snapshots)
– Initial task posture
– Final task posture
• User inputs task parameters
– Weight, Frequency, Quality of grasp, etc
• Automatically evaluates manikin’s posture
– Height of hands, asymmetry, distance
• Provides detailed analysis results
– NIOSH: Recommended Weight Limits, Lifting Index
– SNOOK: Design Goal, Accommodation %’ages
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CREO MANIKIN ANALYSIS: LIFTING/LOWERING ANALYSIS
Using data derived from the SNOOK equations, this analysis provides an analysis of
the manikin pushing and pulling an object, based on variables such as:
• Load, distance, frequency and duration
• Automatically evaluates manikin’s posture
– Height of hands
• Provides detailed results
– Design goals
– %’age accommodation for males
– %’age accommodation for females
– Includes data for both initial and sustained
effort
• Saved Analysis
– Saved as a feature