Workplace Design

The "Workstation Design" workflow shows you how Halocline makes your daily planning more efficient. Your main task is to arrange and test the components together with the correct containers at the workstation in the best possible way. You can design the workstation according to your own ideas. 

Overview

• How to Get Started
• Set Up the Workstation
• Optimizing the Workstation
• Test and Validate

How to Get Started

The zip file contains all elements you need to design a workstation in Halocline:

• Table: A standard table whose dimensions you can adjust (haloitem)
• Mesh box: This is fixed and should not be modified (haloitem)
• Shelf: Can be imported and adjusted as "Boxes". Currently provided as a CAD file (stp)
• Strut assembly: All required components in a single file (haloitem)
• Assembly sequence: An Excel file showing the correct sequence for the strut assembly (xlsx)
   

• Preparation:

  Use an empty shopfloor as your starting point

  • Create Shopfloor
  Import all required elements into your project: table, mesh box, shelf, and strut components

  • Import Data

• View assembly sequence:

  Open the assembly sequence Excel file
  Create a screenshot of it and save it in the folder: ...\Documents\Halocline\Notes

• Now you’re ready to go! Open the VR environment and start placing the elements.

  Start VR

  • Start Layout VR

Set Up the Workstation

• Place elements:

  Place the table, mesh box, and shelf from the library onto the shopfloor

  • Open Library
  • Select
  • Adjust

• Arrange components:

  Use the prepared components from the library

  • VR Library
  First place them on the table

  • Select
  • Adjust
  Then ungroup them

  • Group and Ungroup

• Create containers:

  Create containers to store the components
  Sort the components into the appropriate containers and position them at the workstation

  • Select
  • Adjust

• Follow the assembly sequence:

  Check your notes to take the assembly sequence of the components into account in VR and design the workstation accordingly

  • Notepad in VR

Component Import

Components can be shared directly as Halocline library objects. If you want to share components with other people, it is a good idea to group all relevant components for a specific workstation and save them as a single shared library object.

If you want to distribute the components at a workstation, first place them as one object. Then make sure to ungroup them afterward so you can distribute and adjust each component individually.

Optimizing the Workstation

• Inspiration: Browse the VR library – there you’ll find additional resources that help you further optimize the workstation.

  If you don’t find what you’re looking for, feel free to check our public library

  • Public Library
  • Import Data
  • VR Library

• Own CAD files: If you have imported your own CAD files, place them in suitable positions at the workstation as well.

  Do you know the CAD import options?

  • Import Data
  • Options for CAD Import
  • VR Library

Test and Validate

• Test the process:

  Test the performance of the process in VR and check how long you need

  • Start Performance
  • Record Process Flows
  • Move and Grab Objects
  • Assemble Components
  • Replay Process Flows
  • Test and Compare Variants

• Evaluate

  Check body posture

  • Check Body Postures
  • Ergonomic Analysis: Key Indicator Method
  • Standards and Reference Values in Halocline Performance
  Check the working height and walking paths

  • Spaghetti Diagram
  • Movement Space
  • Ergonomic Analysis: Key Indicator Method
  • Minimum Passage Width
  • Standards and Reference Values in Halocline Performance

• Export results:

  Further analyze the Performance report

  • Using Data From Halocline Performance

Evaluating Proposed Solutions

Before you start recording in Halocline Performance, practice the sequence a few times to avoid errors in the recording.

Quick Adjustment

You’re currently on the go and don’t have access to a VR headset. But you’ve come up with a few ideas for how the workstation could be improved. 

You can implement these changes without a VR headset. Use the Desktop Layout Planning feature to quickly put your idea into practice. 

Tip: You can only validate target values in VR, because your movements are recorded there.