Abstract
Demographic changes and increasing numbers of older and
performance-restricted employees is a challenge for the industry. A digital workplace
design can support value-adding and ability-appropriate employment. In
the early planning phase, digital human models can be used for ergonomic and
economicworkplace design.However, fewdigital human models allowthe consideration
of individual abilities and age-related change to enable ability-appropriate
work design. On the example of the design of a production area including logistic
activities, a procedure for designing ability-and age-appropriate workplaces is
presented. The planning system ema Work Designer is used to simulate the work
process under consideration of representative digital human models with different
characteristics (anthropometry, flexibility, strength) related to age. The simulated
process is assessed by accessibility, biomechanical analyses (e.g. EAWS) and
time analysis. As a result, it is shown that with the developed method using digital
human models with different abilities it can be ensured that workers with and
without restrictions canwork together in thework systems. By introducing various
design measures, the ergonomic risk is reduced from high to moderate risk scores
and the operational capability of all relevant employee groups is guaranteed. The
execution time was reduced significant.
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