On automatic generation of human motion for ergonomic evaluation of workplace and tasks

HUE Valentin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:45:36 +0000

The organization of the production leads very often to define repetitive sequences of movements for the human operators. This working type is at the origin of musculoskeletal disorders and of professional diseases in a certain number of cases. This paper presents work on simulation of the operator movements in its workplace and the software tool developed from it. The goal of these studies is to provide designers with a realistic prediction of human movements in order to evaluate tasks and workplaces from the ergonomic viewpoint. Main contribution is on automatic realistic motion generation in

Knowledge and Skill Driven Manufacturing of High Value Added Products - Human Aspects

Juhani Heilala — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:17:48 +0000

Production systems are getting more complex. Introduction of new technologies, new products and production paradigms do have an affect also on system design and how human operators collaborate with these complex intelligent systems. At the same time global competition, customers wish on personalized products, shorter life-cycles of products makes profitable automation and information management at factory floor demanding. The challenges are most important in labour intensive small series production where old fashioned ways of production is not competitive in the Western countries. Thus there is a need for new Smart Manufacturing Paradigm, to fulfil needs and to create new way of working.

Innovative Production Machines and Systems Conference - Human Machine Interfaces

On automatic generation of human motion for ergonomic evaluation of workplace and tasks

Knowledge and Skill Driven Manufacturing of High Value Added Products - Human Aspects