Occupant Packaging Toolkit for Jack

Design and test vehicle interiors with digital humans

Benefits Summary • Factor in human needs from With Jack™ software and the Occupant Packaging Toolkit (OPT), designers design start can analyze concept vehicle interiors for human factors issues without • Minimize need for physical building costly physical prototypes. prototypes • Improve performance, What is the Occupant Packaging Toolkit? comfort and product safety Designing better interior spaces for cars, trucks, airplanes and construction • Accelerate time-to-market equipment can be a challenge. The Occupant Packaging Toolkit (OPT) for Jack • Decrease design costs addresses this challenge by providing analytical tools that help you design vehicle interiors for optimal occupant performance and comfort while Features reducing the need to build costly physical prototypes. OPT is an add-on An add-on to Jack, the module to the popular Jack human simulation and ergonomics analysis Occupant Packaging Toolkit software program. provides tools for: • SAE packaging J-Standards The unique set of tools in the OPT module allows you to perform a wide • Posture prediction variety of analyses on your vehicle design. You can benchmark against other • Comfort assessment vehicles or design candidates using the extensive SAE J-Standards tools. You • Vision analysis can predict how a person might posture themselves in the vehicle, and evaluate how comfortable they would be. You can also analyze what they can Hardware platforms reach and see. supported • Windows 2000 and XP • Hewlett-Packard HP-UX • Silicon Graphics

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Occupant Packaging Toolkit for Jack

The powerful vision analysis capability position the figure into the vehicle based Comfort assessment allows you to quickly generate 3D design on validated research models. You can The comfort assessment tool helps you zones representing what can be seen, or further investigate your design by using determine whether you’ve positioned a what cannot, and obtain feedback on how the comfort analysis and vision analysis Jack human model in a comfortable much of a target is visible. functionality to improve occupant posture.With five comfort models available performance. Using the SAE J-Standards to assess seated comfort, the comfort With the Jack Occupant Packaging Toolkit, tools, you can benchmark a vehicle design assessment tool: you can develop more ergonomic, safer using industry standard tools. • Predicts whether a given Jack model is in and more comfortable vehicle interiors. a comfortable seated posture Using the Occupant Packaging Toolkit for • Dynamically displays the comfort ranges Overview Jack, you will be able to design safer and as you position the Jack model The Jack human simulation solution more optimal vehicle layouts, faster and • Allows you to customize or create your enables you to insert human models into for less cost. own comfort ranges for individual joints your digital environments. With the Occupant Packaging Toolkit add-on, you SAE packaging guidelines Vision analysis can evaluate your digital vehicle concept The SAE packaging guidelines tool The vision analysis tool helps you analyze models for human factors issues. implements 28 of the SAE recommended the line-of-sight issues in the vehicle. The Analyzing vehicle interior concepts while practices for various driver and vehicle tool allows you to create geometry they are still in the preliminary design design attributes. With this tool you can: representative of the direct line-of-sight stage allows designers to bring human • Create geometry in Jack to identify obscuration zones, the reflection zones factors into the design process sooner, zones where physical features such as and the target visibility within an before a bad idea gets solidified. eyes, head clearance and fingers would environment. In addition, the vision be located for 95 to 99 percent of the analysis functionality allows you to: population • Generate zones that represent • Create geometry to identify locations for boundaries of what can be seen through vehicle attributes such as the seat, mirrors, occluded areas behind steering wheel, armrest, gear shift, geometry or portions of targets that can wiper and defroster zones be seen • Evaluate alternate designs just by • Batch process a family of figures to modifying the critical reference points automatically generate population restriction zones Posture prediction The posture prediction tool helps you place Jack virtual humans in seated postures that represent how people of a particular size actually sit in the seat of an automobile. Based on empirical studies of hundreds of occupants seated in various vehicle With Jack and the OPT, you can inter­ configurations, the tool: actively evaluate a concept vehicle design • Predicts the location of Jack within a for human fit and performance. Since Jack vehicle package, taking into account the is infinitely scalable, you can create a Jack size of the virtual human and the or Jill figure of any desired size, and the packaging layout OPT functionality will automatically • Automatically positions drivers and passengers in both front and rear seats

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