Modeling and Optimizing Ergonomic Activities in Automobile Product Development

We collect ergonomic rules and normative rules considerations for automobile business and modeled these activities with a special UML language created for automobile business, VDML (Vehicle Development Modeling Language). From these high level process vision integrated in the product development activity a wide variety of improvements can be achieved related with time reduction, activity process quality as well as use of past experience. Also we intend to define ergonomic associated templates, which reflect standard ergonomic job routines to be incorporated in CAD application and improve the ergonomics process reference points and also the process optimization reached thorough UML high level vision. In these process we define also a ontology for ergonomics (EOL – Ergonomics Ontology Language) based on the OWL (Ontology Web Language) standards.