News.

Atkins are pleased to announce that they shall be presenting a paper at the DSEi* in London later this month. Grant Hudson from the Atkins Human Factors Team will be presenting their use of JACK on recent military projects as well as advertising the many benefits of using JACK on their exhibition stand throughout the course of the conference.

Atkins has over 5 years of experience using the JACK^TM 3D anthropometric modelling tool on projects and it has become clear that there are huge benefits to deploying this technology early in the project lifecycle in the support of HF, engineering and design activities on projects.

However capable and advantageous JACK^TM is, no matter how powerful a visualisation tool it is, it is still only a tool and the outputs of any tool are only as good as the inputs of its human operator.  At Atkins we use HF practitioners with an understanding of engineering to operate JACK^TM and have developed our experience of using JACK^TM into an integrated approach that we call Advanced Assurance Modelling.

Through the use of JACK^TM in Advanced Assurance Modelling, we have found that the visualisation of a problem is an invaluable tool to aid communication and the understanding of issues between HF and engineering.  It helps to clearly identify the HF issue and put it in an engineering context, presenting it in a way that is both tangible, accurate and easy to comprehend.  A picture truly does speak a thousand words and those words do cross cultural boundaries, enabling HF and engineering disciplines to work more closely together and understand each other in a clear and unambiguous way.

Advanced Assurance Modelling integrates HF, CAD and engineering disciplines into a single approach based around JACK^TM.  We have found that Advanced Assurance Modelling provides a powerful communication and translation link between HF and engineering disciplines on projects leading to significant cost savings and increasing the likelihood of getting it right first time.

If you would like to know more about Atkins and Jack please feel free to e-mail Atkins at dai.barker@atkinsglobal.com

*DSEi is the key event for the defence and security community. It provides a unique platform to view the latest equipment and systems from the world’s defence and security industry.  DSEi provides an opportunity for visitors to develop international relationships and generate new business opportunities.