Siemens\u2019 Jack and Jill<\/A>.<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n\u201cThe suit from Xsens is a good example of sensor fusion. It involves gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetometers. You can put on that suit and start walking around,\u201d says Ulrich Raschke, director of Tecnomatix Human Simulation products, Siemens PLM Software. \u201cIt\u2019s a self-contained tracking system. With motion capture using markers and cameras, you\u2019d have to worry about camera occlusion (the camera\u2019s inability to see the subject with markers). With this suit, you don\u2019t have to worry about that.\u201d<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\nTypical use of Xsens technology may involve, for example, having an actor perform or mimic a particular assembly operation or enter and exit a mockup vehicle. Ergonomists could analyze the movement captured in Siemens\u2019 software to understand the stress and strain involved. If needed, the assembly process or the vehicle\u2019s doors could be redesigned to allow a much more natural movement.<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\nErgonomic analysis has emerged as an important part of manufacturing process simulation. \u201cWhen you\u2019re designing something new, you don\u2019t know how people will approach it. When planning for wire-harnessing for a plane, you may assume people will hold the wire and use a kneeling posture to do it. But then when you see the subject performing the task, you might realize people have a tendency to do it in differently. The data from the suit can be streamed directly to the Jack software in real time. So while the actor is acting out a task to see if he or she can reach for certain things, the software can calculate if, over a period of time, this action exposes the human employee to injury risks,\u201d says Raschke.<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\nSiemens\u2019 Raschke thinks the manufacturing industry is on the cusp of something big. All the technology pieces are in place, awaiting a major transformation. \u201cWe already hold much of the information about the machineries in the plant, about the movement of the people, and so on. We\u2019re on the doorstep of connecting those data and wearable devices,\u201d he says.<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n![\"Xsens-MVN-BIOMECH.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/09\/Xsens-MVN-BIOMECH-1.jpg\" "\\"Xsens-MVN-BIOMECH.jpg\\"")
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