Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Analysis Extension

Analyse Human-Product Interactions

Optimizing the relationships between products and their users can present challenges to product designers in a variety of industries, especially if the users need to repetitively push, pull, carry or lift the products. After inserting a digital manikin into your 3D product model using the Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Extension, you can analyze human-product interaction scenarios for optimal performance with Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Analysis Extension.

Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Analysis Extension is an easy-to-use, powerful add-on module that enables you to test your designs against a number of quantitative human factors, and workplace standards and guidelines early in the product development process.

Benefits

  • Simulate, communicate and optimize manual handling tasks such as lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and carrying
  • Analyse designs faster with simplified workflows and saved analysis settings
  • Reduce time and save costs by decreasing the number of physical prototypes
  • Leverage advanced reporting capabilities and comfort scores to deliver products designed and optimised for humans
  • Ensure conformance with health and safety guidelines and ergonomic standards

For more information on capabilities for creating digital human models, please visit the Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Extension product page.

* The Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Analysis Extension is expected to be available in December 2008. The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to change at PTC's discretion


Additionally, in February 2009, basic manikin capabilities that enable users to insert a pre-defined manikin into a CAD model and easily manipulate the posture to gain an understanding of how a human would fit or interact with a proposed design will be included in all Pro/ENGINEER packages at no additional charge for those customers on the latest maintenance release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0.