Need a good digital human to place in Vis Mockup? Put Vis Jack to work! For product design organizations looking for a cost-effective and timely way to improve the ergonomics of designs, Vis Jack is human modeling solution that reduces development costs and shortens time to market while enhancing product performance, fit and safety. Unlike traditional methods involving physical prototyping and real human subjects, Vis Jack helps you address human factors early in the design cycle, with digital people and prototypes. As a result, you can build fewer prototypes, get to market faster -- and produce more ergonomically sound products. Vis Jack offers many of the same capabilities as its older brother, Classic Jack. Just like Classic Jack, Vis Jack enables you to:
Though Vis Jack is a few years younger than Classic Jack, he's getting stronger every day. Still, there are a few things Vis Jack currently cannot do. For one thing, Vis Jack is fundamentally a static human factors analysis tool. It does not have a real-time motion system for simulating human movement and interaction. Also, Vis Jack doesn't take advantage of the advanced ergonomics and human factors tools in the Task Analysis and Occupant Packaging Toolkits. Vis Jack's primary strength is that he's right at home in the Vis Mockup environment. If you need to figure out what a human would be able to see or reach in your design, insert a Vis Jack human into Vis Mockup, scale and position him or her the way you want, then do a quick evaluation. If you want to perform more rigorous analysis on your design, bring it into the Classic Jack environment, and use the simulation system and advanced ergonomics and human factors tools.
