Reporting Capabilities

The general concept of reporting capabilities is the procedure that is capable of extracting output information from the different ergonomic analyses. It dumps this information into a formatted text or html file. This creates and defines one or several report objects, and activate/deactivates those at any given point in time. Assigns each report object to a specific manikin and associated with an output file (the log).

From the Manikin, select Profiles, Reports.

Right-click a Report and select Report1 object. Select:

  • Definition...
  • Update - The Update command updates these logs.

    For Human Task Definition, activate the Update Analyses During Simulation, in the Preferences/Ergonomics at Work / General tab. If you are required to do repetitive positions, enter a custom label by activating the Enable custom label at update in the Preferences / General tab.

  • View - There is also a Vision analysis in the list of possible reports on the manikin. This report contains the length of the line of sight (focal distance) and the snapshot (image) of the manikin's eye window.
  • Define Input Parameters... - See Define Input Parameters Dialog Box
  • Deactivate - Deactivates the reports.

The benefits that allow you to save the outputs of human static analyses into formatted text files are:

  • Consult the analysis results for better efficiency, and compare individual results together.
  • The resulting files process and reformat (in Microsoft Excel for example), to present in a different context (management report, web page, snapshots for presentations).
  • With the report objects, it is possible to run ergonomic analyses without opening the corresponding section and without switching (all analyses complete in the background).
  • Ergonomic problems identify quickly, and corrective actions finished earlier.
  • With the Vision analysis, you get an image of the sight of a specific manikin at a certain moment in time. This allows you to enhance their analysis capability and therefore help validate that the manikins position is in the right place to view their environment correctly. In the list of possible reports, you have an item, Vision Analysis. This report consists of the value of the line of sight and the image of the manikin's eye window.