{"id":334,"date":"2014-01-20T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/How-Human-Simulation-Improves-Safety-and-Efficiency-in\/ba-p\/335192"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:30:51","slug":"how-human-simulation-improves-safety-and-efficiency-in-automotive-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/how-human-simulation-improves-safety-and-efficiency-in-automotive-production\/","title":{"rendered":"How Human Simulation Improves Safety and Efficiency in Automotive Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2014\/01\/IMG-20140116-00036.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignright  wp-image-17019\" alt=\"Jack Human Simulation and Kinect\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2014\/01\/IMG-20140116-00036-225x300.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"220\" \/><\/A>This year at the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.naias.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">North America Auto Show<\/A>, Siemens was highlighting <A href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/jack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">human simulation<\/A> solution, and showed how automakers use this solution to improve safety, ergonomics and efficiency of human performed tasks in assembly lines. One of the latest innovations you will see in our Jack human simulation software is its ability to capture human postures using <A href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/kinect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kinect<\/A>. Kinect sensor, as you know, allows you to play video games without using a controller.&nbsp;Kinect can capture your body\u2019s motion and respond to your voice commands, allowing you to control your Avatar.<BR \/><BR \/>We have used Kinect as a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/assembly_planning\/jack\/index.shtml?stc=wwiia420069#lightview%26uri=tcm:1023-83547%26title=Motion%20Capture%20Toolkit%20for%20Tecnomatix%20Human%20Applications%20-%20Tecnomatix%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%2017523%26docType=.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">motion capture<\/A> device for manipulating human figures in Jack. Kinect provides an inexpensive way to build a human simulation study quickly, analyze different aspects of human postures, and perform feasibility study of assembly operations.<BR \/><BR \/>Watch the below demo from Christina Cort at Siemens PLM Software and learn more about this cool technology.<BR \/><BR \/>You can download a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/free-tecnomatixjack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">free 30-day trial copy of Tecnomatix Jack<\/A> and explore the power of human simulation. Support for Microsoft Kinect is available in this trial offer.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DpICV2oq8fw\"><\/IFRAME><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year at the North America Auto Show, Siemens was highlighting human simulation solution, and showed how automakers use this solution to improve safety, ergonomics and efficiency of human perform&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[331],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","product-tecnomatix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}