Pro/ENGINEER Manikin is Here!
PTC now offers a comprehensive, 3D digital human modeling solution that is easy to use and affordable. Two new modules, Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Extension and Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Analysis Extension, provide ergonomic design and human factors analysis capabilities that will help you connect your products to the people that will manufacture, install use, and service them. Now you can optimize your detailed design processes for human-product interactions earlier, reducing time and costs downstream in the product development process. Highlights of these new products include:
New Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Extension
- Quickly insert, customize, and manipulate accurate, standards-based 3D human models
- Generate human reach envelopes and vision cones to understand what limitations may exist in your design
- Gain a user’s perspective of your product by using the Fly To View capability
- Leverage time-saving libraries of global populations and manikin postures to quickly build manikin scenarios
- Ensure conformance with safety and ergonomic standards
New Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Analysis Extension
- Simulate, communicate and optimize manual handling tasks such as lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and carrying
- Analyze designs faster with simplified workflows and reuse of saved analysis settings
- Leverage advanced reporting capabilities to deliver products designed and optimized for humans
- Ensure conformance with health and safety guidelines and ergonomic standards
Free Manikin in Pro/ENGINEER
- Now you can test-drive basic manikin functionality that is included in all Pro/ENGINEER packages, beginning with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 M060, to see how digital human modeling can improve your product development process
Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Extension and Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Analysis Extension contain many more new capabilities that will further improve your productivity, quality and profitability. For more information about what's new, please see the product pages and the online Product Release Notes.
Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Extension and Pro/ENGINEER Manikin Analysis Extension are expected to be available in December 2008 in English, French, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. To purchase these new products, please contact your PTC sales representative or a local Value Added Reseller today!
* The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to change at PTC's discretion