{"id":652,"date":"2009-04-30T15:03:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2009-04-30T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T14:03:33","slug":"laval-virtual-2009-ergo-wide-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/laval-virtual-2009-ergo-wide-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Laval Virtual 2009 – Ergo Wide 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate Bourdet, from the Dassault Syst\u00c3\u00a8mes Corporate Blog “3D Perspectives<\/a>“, did a great article about Clarte’s Ergo Wide 3<\/a> that was demonstrated at Laval Virtual 2009.<\/p>\n

Basically it’s a tool to design ergonomically valid production line workstations, in a distributed manner. It’s a really useful, well-designed and complex system, so congratulations to the Clarte team =)<\/p>\n

(who did another great system which I’ll talk about soon).<\/p>\n

So, read the original article<\/a> !<\/p>\n

I’ve just copy\/pasted here for archives :<\/p>\n

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(c) Kate Bourdet, for “3D Perspectives<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Hi everyone. For my last day at Laval Virtual, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but blog about another CLARTE <\/a>creation, Ergo Wide 3. CLARTE worked in tight collaboration with INERGY<\/a> for three years to create exactly what was needed. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the real-world scenario that this VR application resolves:<\/p>\n

A fuel tank manufacturer called INERGY contacted CLARTE because they were losing too many employees to sick leave. Because of certain production line work station ergonomics, workers were taking long periods of absence due to work-induced injuries. On top of that, the company didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the time or resources necessary to study multiple work station scenarios for all their locations.<\/p>\n

Traditionally INERGY\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s factories would receive production line set-ups with very limited adjustment\/personalization options. For example, maybe the only thing the work station employee could adjust would be the height of the table. If the station was designed by really short people but used by really tall people, the tall workers would quickly start experiencing back pain.<\/p>\n

The fact that the world keeps \u00e2\u20ac\u0153getting smaller\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and companies are spreading their manufacturing internationally multiplies the possibilities for work station mismatches and injury.<\/p>\n

But what if the people actually working on the production line helped to design their work stations?<\/p>\n

This is possible with Ergo Wide 3.<\/p>\n

In fact the application is already in production by a subsidiary of INERGY called Troy. The first usage was for a workstation design for a factory in Korea. Through the application, someone at Troy headquartered in the US worked with a factory worker in Korea through a Web-based immersive virtuality environment.<\/p>\n

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an example of how the configuration works:<\/p>\n