Impetus, ideas, manpower
Turn ergonomics into your competitive advantage
Operability, comfort and safety are the key factors for the market success of products. Integrating ergonomics in product development from planning right through to series production places high demands on competence, processes and resources. Together with our experts, you can break new ground, secure highly qualified competence at peak times and significantly improve your overall performance. This is no exaggeration. After all, we’ve proven it many times before.
Competence and resources
Simulation and field studies
Real and digital test collectives
Our range of services
As specialists for ergonomics, we offer you a special combination of expertise, data, methods and tools to make your products successful and strengthen your processes.
Test collectives
Representative for your market and your product
Basic reach and positioning
The central ergonomic parameters for your CAD mockup
Real ergonomic protection
From design to evaluation
Interior Design
Digital ergonomic protection
Insourcing
Outsourcing
Coaching
Full service: Product design
Ensure optimum comfort and safe handling at the highest level. We take over the implementation of ergonomics studies for entire vehicles or sub-projects from the planning stage to the transfer of results – and if required, we’ll use third-party studies to supplement the ergonomics simulation with RAMSIS. You’ll receive your study results fully documented and comprehensibly prepared.
Innovation: Ergonomics 4.0
Create fresh impetus for better products and future models. The world of ergonomics is changing. Autonomous driving, car sharing and increasing demands from international markets are creating new challenges for ergonomics. We will bring new technical possibilities and research results to your product ergonomics – exact test person pools, benchmarks, field studies and basic design for new vehicle concepts.
Agile Development: Engineering as a Service
We will provide you with support that exactly meets your requirements using outsourcing, insourcing or project coaching. If there is a lack of skilled workers or if they are needed at peak times, we will support you in all areas of ergonomic product design. Our experts will bring their experience and manpower to your organization on a project or contract basis.
Best Practices
Full-service outsourcing, individual studies and real security from our everyday life with ergonomics
Design for electric cars
Creation of RAMSIS manikins, analysis of the existing package, improvement of seat adjustment ranges.
Digital ergonomics benchmark
Comparison of models with competitor models in terms of vision, reachability, seating position and adjustment ranges.
SAE design for OEM in Asia
SAE design with new RAMSIS test collective (including BMI +25), with specification creation and a RAMSIS license.
Ergonomics Competence Center
Expertise for the new ergonomics
An interdisciplinary team of ergonomists, engineers, biomechanics specialists, psychologists and sports scientists is at your disposal in our Ergonomics Competence Center in Munich, Kaiserslautern or on your premises. We will work together on Ergonomics 4.0 to master the main challenges in ergonomics, e.g. concepts for autonomous driving and car sharing.
Ergonomics from A to Z
Choose one of our study packages to take your product forward in comfort, ease of use and safety – and of course you can also examine specific issues together with us.
Perform the usability test
In the Usability laboratory, the ergonomic quality of the operability of products and product elements (such as displays and steering wheels) is compared through observation and questioning. This is based on the jointly developed requirement definitions, plus interface design and evaluation with VDI 2222 – and the result is a comprehensive benchmark for the ergonomics of your product.
Complete check: Ergonomics 360°
Get an exact overview of the ergonomic quality and the ergonomic improvement potential of your products. This analysis is also possible in a comparison with several vehicles.
Complete check: target group 50+
Impressive purchasing power means different requirements. Our experts check how well your vehicle performs in terms of vision, perception, mobility and power – and how fit it is for demographic transition.
Load check
Perform a forces & moment analysis to check that your vehicle can be easily operated (or even at all!). Among other things, our experts will determine the maximum force forecasts for you, or calculate torques in the neck area, e.g. during extreme maneuvers with and without a helmet.
Ingress /Egress analyses
Using a combination of fields and virtual studies, we will show you the critical phases of ingress and egress – and uncover enormous improvement potential for your vehicle as a result.
Seats tests
We check seat length & width, backrest height, seat contours, lateral support and operability using physical test benches and simulations – and we define the basic ergonomic reference points (also in compliance with SAE standards).
Vision check
We will support you with your CAD analysis of the external field of vision (with visual occlusion using A/B/C columns), in the determination of the visual quality when looking at instruments, and the required gaze aversion times – and we’ll also help you to draw the right conclusions from the study results.
Safety tests
Ensure standard-compliant belt routing over the manikin and test device (e.g. Gabarit, Hybrid III, Q Dummy) at an early stage – alternatively, belt routing can also be ensured using a real test collective in the real vehicle.
Secure marketing authorization
Digital allows you to ensure compliance with visual standards at an early stage in the digital model. This saves a lot of time in product development.
Your advantages with Engineering as a Service
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High level of customer satisfaction
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Benchmark/competitiveness of products
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Acceleration of processes and absorption of load peaks
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Cost and planning security in development
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Flexibility and agility in development
You’ve come to the right place!
Make ergonomics your decisive competitive factor.
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