Development of Support System by Using 3-D Mannequin in Process Engineering

Abstract

On designing the manual operation processes, it is important for process engineers to estimate the operation time and assume the worker's motion, in order to modify and optimize the process and workplace. 3-D Mannequin has useful functions for the engineers to make such estimation efficiently. However, the conventional 3-D Mannequin requires a lot of time to modify the process and the workplace data. To reduce the time, we have developed the support system, which enables users to modify the process and the workplace based on the already modeled data. By checking the difference of the type of motion and the position of object between the already modeled data and the modified data, the users only have to re-model the minimum required motion.