A COMPUTER-AIDED TOOL FOR ERGONOMIC WORKPLACE DESIGN AND PREVENTIVE HEALTH-CARE

Preventive health care is one of the basic challenges facing ergonomic s. The aim to prevent occupationally generated musculoskeletal disorde rs and diseases may be achieved by appropriate workplace and product d esign. ERGOMan is a computer-aided 3D man model suitable for ergonomic and movement simulation at industrial workstations. Within a common p roject of the above mentioned institutions ERGOMan's inventory of ergo nomics design tools shall be enhanced in a way that ERGOMan will be ab le to give detailed information on load or stress situations, which mi ght effect the executability and tolerability of work situations with high probability. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.