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This software package allows health and safety issues to be assessed when the product is at the virtual stage on a PC. It is written in C++ and runs on Windows NT and parts require other software to be available on the system. It provides an attractive set of tools for workplace designers, particularly if it is used in conjunction with other packages e.g. ERGOPlan. In particular these tools are integrated with each other and can be integrated with other software, especially ERGOPlan. The combination enables a host of issues to be clarified or resolved prior to any product manufacture, so subsequent changes to assist workers and manufacturing processes are greatly reduced. Due to using a database, data has only to be entered once and a large repertoire of proprietary equipment can be accessed by a few clicks of a mouse.
At present a number of detailed refinements are needed and some useful extra features need to be added, but the major developments have been completed. However, on the work environment side, the ventilation module does not exist and the routines to deal with toxic vapours have still to be written. Similarly, greater information needs to be provided to deal with a bigger variety of materials in connection with noise absorption etc. Some areas (e.g. posture analysis) need to be enhanced once the results of the analysis of the associated research become available.
The package is expected to shorten development times dramatically, and to result in considerably improved designs of workplaces, with substantially reduced incidence rates of injuries and disorders.
The constituent parts of HASSUL are:
PATsI (Postural Analysis Techniques for Industry):
-It uses the ERGOMAN man-model to generate the joint angles induced by a manikin positioned at a workplace. These are converted to zones of risk based on the Drury analysis procedure, and it provides guidance on ways to improve the postures involved.
-BETSSy (Binary Event Tree Simulation System for safety modelling):
-Software written in SiMPLE++ provides a Swain and Guttmann approach to the modelling of human error in performing tasks which can be run using point estimates and deterministic evaluation, or statistical distributions and simulation modelling. In addition it has a facility for completing an FMEA analysis omn the screen.
TEESI (Thermal Environment Estimation System for Industry):
-Four different approaches are available for assessing the effects on the worker of the thermal environment.
WENDI (Work ENvironment Determination for Industry):
-The CISM software of Stephen Dance has been adapted and reference information provided to give an analysis of noise distribution in a work area due to one or more noise sources and as affected by barriers, absorbers etc. Iso-noise lines are produced on an AutoCAD layout drawing. In addition, the RADIANCE package has been incorporated to give similar information in regard to lighting levels.
Checklists: are provided for workplace examination.
CLOMAN:
has been converted for use here to do clothing evaluations.
PAWDI (Prediction of Anthropometry for Work Design in Industry):
-Provides regression equations to estimate some ranges of motion of individuals from other anthropometric values.
The developed software for Time Estimation and Ergonomics, for manual assembly systems, supports the process planner/production engineer in performing industrial engineering evaluations for manual assembly tasks using the product structure of the component as an input. The design of the workplace layout and the production of the time elements required to manually assemble a product described by a product structure are integrated in UNIF. Wherever possible, use was made of the facilities that existed in ERGOMAN and SAMMIE. The basic mechanism for assembling a set of parts to form a sub-assembly (Get and Put) has been embedded in the UNIF software and used to automatically generate time elements. Parts and tools are located at the workplace within the reach limit envelope. Additional time elements can be obtained from SAMMIE (as postural or location changes using the ergonomic evaluation) and entered into the system.
Using production data and the operations of the assembly process, UNIF distributes the operations to workstations and describes and analyses the individual work systems (workplace layout, operations, time study, line balancing). In addition a prototype language module has been developed for the description of the product structure and which carries out syntactical checking of the associated manual assembly operations.
The result of the project is software and a methodology for the design of manual assembly systems based upon the product structure and a task description and which can be integrated with the Ergoplan software suite.
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