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Many products in the market claim to be "ergonomic" or "ergonomically designed," but what do these statements really mean? Ergonomics or ergonomic design only has a "true" meaning if a design is compared to something! That something can be a threshold, guideline, or another product's performance. Very few products put any specificity on their "ergonomic" marketing tags because they lack the data, information, knowledge, and will to undertake an objective ergonomic product redesign. ErgExperts can help your corporation design products that are truly ergonomic and have the data, information, and knowledge to back up and display the performance claims.

Competitive Product Benchmarking

ErgExperts utilizes a combination of subjective and objective advanced ergonomic evaluation methods to test and analyze a set of products in real-world applications. The results of this type of analysis can pinpoint design- and user-expectation related deficiencies in the current product lineup. The results of this type of analysis can help guide the corporation and their design staff in reducing the product's ergonomic deficiencies while meeting the user expectations.

New Product Design & Development

If your corporation is interested in replacing an existing product or is in the process of developing a completely new product, ErgExperts can work with your internal Industrial Design staff or your external Industrial Design provider to determine the critical operational requirements from an ergonomics perspective. ErgExperts can provide critical dimensioning, brainstorm product concepts, and test prototypes. Once the field of potential prototype designs has been narrowed down, a competitive benchmark analysis is performed to ensure that the prototype has the required operational characteristics and meets or exceeds the user's expectations. ErgExperts have been involved in the design, development, and testing of specialized industrial products and equipment as well as mass-market consumer products.

Truth in advertising

If your corporation is interested in developing hard objective "ergonomic" related data concerning the performance of your products, ErgExperts can help. Instead of simply saying that your product is "ergonomically" designed, you can specify operational characteristics with hard data: "15% reduction in forearm grip requirements," "preferred over product X, Y, and Z by 73%." These, as well as many other types of marketing claims, can be made as a result of objective ergonomic testing of your product and your competitor's. If one of your competitors is making a marketing claim that you do not believe, ErgExperts can help you challenge it! By performing objective ergonomic analysis in the design of products, truthful and more meaningful statements and claims can be made with respect to ergonomics, and the product performance can be made.