Kenneth Wong wrote a great article called “GM Puts Digital Humans to Work” which was published in Desktop Engineering. This is based on an interview with Bob Tilove, a technical fellow at General Motors’ Manufacturing Systems Research Lab. There is a lot of detailed information about the use of digital humans in product engineering and manufacturing in this article.
One of the questions and more important the answer caught my attention:
“What are the shortcomings you’ve noticed in digital human models that come with current PLM systems?
Tilove: We do have digital human models or computer manikins in commercial tools, and we try to use them to assess reach, access, and ergonomics. But the problem is, the digital human models today are not too smart. They’re like those wood human models you may have seen that artists use. You can put its hands somewhere, you may reposition its torso … but you can’t just tell a digital human to reach into a cluttered environment and install a part. (…)”
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