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Santos Basic

Santos and Sophia deliver extensive application potential across multiple fields by offering high-fidelity simulations that closely mirror human biomechanics and ergonomics. With detailed analyses of ergonomic factors and human performance, Santos helps optimize workspaces, tools, and equipment to reduce strain, fatigue, and injury risks. Santos Basic provides flexibility to accommodate various human sizes and body types enables, testing for inclusivity, ensuring that designs meet a wide range of user needs. Sophisticated posture prediction and movement simulation allow for precise assessments of posture, joint stress, and range of motion, all crucial for creating safe and comfortable environments. Additionally, Santos Basic provides robust risk assessment tools, such as NIOSH lifting equations, spine shear and compression, and Liberty Mutual report generator. Supporting a human-centered design process, Santos Basic accurately simulates real-world human interactions with environments, products, and systems, making it invaluable for refining concepts to suit user needs effectively. Importing objects into Santos Basic is easy such that human digital twin can interact with the environment, activate a vision function, and avoid collisions. These capabilities make Santos and Sophia essential tools across safety-focused industries, including military, manufacturing, healthcare, and product design, where the demands for efficiency, comfort, and human-centered design are paramount.

Santos Enterprise

Santos Enterprise elevates digital human modeling to a powerful, multi-functional platform designed for extensive analysis in ergonomics, biomechanics, human-centered design, and beyond. This high-fidelity environment includes specialized tools for precise human factor analyses, from ergonomics to safety protocols. Enhanced with an advanced Dynamics Analyzer and a multitude of analysis tools, Santos Enterprise offers in-depth insights into load-bearing impacts on posture, joint stress, and spine shear and compression—ideal for industries requiring comprehensive ergonomic assessment. With Thermal WBGT and Transient Thermal Comfort tools, Santos Enterprise also enables thermal comfort analysis to improve work environments in varied climates.

SoldierSim

SoldierSim is a powerful simulation tool developed specifically to enhance and optimize Warfighter performance across various tasks and conditions. Built on the advanced Santos engine, SoldierSim allows for realistic, physics-based load carriage simulations tailored to diverse Warfighter anthropometries, equipment designs, and mission tasks. Its intuitive drag-and-drop interface ensures ease of use, while predictive capabilities and in-depth analysis tools provide a comprehensive view of how load, motion, and environment impact Warfighter readiness and performance.

What is Santos Basic?

Santos and Sophia provide extensive application potential across several fields, offering high-fidelity simulations that accurately reflect human biomechanics and ergonomics. Key areas include:

Ergonomics and Human Factors: Santos Basic enables detailed analyses of ergonomic factors and human performance, which help optimize workspaces, tools, and equipment to reduce strain, fatigue, and risk of injury.
Human Size and Variability: By accommodating a range of human sizes and body types, Santos Basic allows users to test designs for inclusivity and functionality, ensuring products and environments meet diverse user needs.
Human Posture and Movement: The platform’s sophisticated posture prediction and motion capabilities allow for accurate assessments of posture, joint stress, and range of motion, which are essential for designing comfortable, efficient, and safe environments.
Risk Assessment: Through load-bearing simulations, posture analysis, and thermal comfort assessments, Santos Basic supports comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential hazards and optimize safety protocols.
Human-Centered Design: Santos Basic supports human-centered design processes by simulating real-world human interactions within environments, products, and systems, making it a valuable tool for refining design concepts to fit human needs.

These capabilities make Santos and Sophia invaluable tools for industries that prioritize safety, efficiency, and comfort, such as military, manufacturing, healthcare, and product design.

Why Use Santos Basic?

Realistic Human Modeling:

Santos Basic provides a physics-based, biomechanically accurate digital twin capable of simulating realistic human reactions to various physical loads and environmental conditions. This is crucial for understanding how a person might perform or be affected in different scenarios.

Predictive Analysis for Ergonomics and Safety:

Santos Basic’s predictive modeling allows users to simulate and analyze posture, movement, fatigue, and strain based on specific tasks or equipment. This is invaluable for creating ergonomic designs that reduce injury risks and enhance comfort and efficiency.

Human Size and Variability:

By accommodating a range of human sizes and body types, Santos Basic allows users to test designs for inclusivity and functionality, ensuring products and environments meet diverse user needs

Integrated Human Factors Testing:

Santos Basic includes tools for assessing posture, load impacts, thermal comfort, joint stresses, and more. These built-in analysis features support comprehensive human factors testing and risk assessments, providing insights into how human factors might impact overall performance, health, and safety.

CAD Compatibility:

Santos Basic easily integrates with CAD formats, allowing design teams to test human interactions with vehicles, equipment, and environments directly within their existing design workflows. This speeds up the design process and enables early identification of design flaws.

Future-Proof, Scalable Platform:

Developed by experts with deep experience in digital human modeling, Santos Basic is built on a flexible, scalable foundation, making it adaptable for future enhancements, emerging technologies, and diverse applications.

Buy Santos Basic?

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3 Year

$7,500

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$3,000

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$350

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

What is Santos Basic used for?

Santos Basic is a high-fidelity digital human model platform used for ergonomic analysis, human performance simulation, and human factors analysis. It allows users to simulate and assess posture, joint movements, task analysis, and design safety evaluations in various work and environmental settings. It is used to reduce risk.

Who typically uses Santos Basic?

Santos Basic is widely used by professionals in ergonomics, product design, occupational safety, manufacturing, healthcare, and academia. It serves anyone needing to analyze human interaction with environments and products to optimize design and reduce risk.

How do I purchase Santos Basic?

Santos Basic can be purchased directly from iHuman’s website.

What operating system does Santos Basic run on?

Santos Basic is compatible with Windows operating systems. System requirements can vary by version, so it’s advised to check the latest specifications on iHuman’s website before installation.

What is the latest version of Santos Basic?

The latest version of Santos Basic can be found on the iHuman website, where regular updates and release notes are available for current and new features.

What is the cost of Santos Basic?

Pricing for Santos Basic is set for an annual license. Please see the page.

Can I move my license from one machine to another?

Yes, licenses for Santos Basic can be transferred between machines, although there may be specific conditions. Contact support for assistance with the transfer process.

Where can I get support for Santos Basic?

iHuman provides technical support for Santos Basic via the support center, where users can find help for troubleshooting, installation, and usage issues. Support may also be accessed through email.

How do I learn Santos Basic?

iHuman offers a variety of learning resources, including tutorials and videos.

Is there a User Manual for Santos Basic?

Yes, Santos Basic includes a comprehensive User Manual available for download from iHuman’s website or through the software’s Help section.

What is the difference between Santos Basic and Santos Enterprise?

Santos Basic provides core functionalities for ergonomic assessments and human simulation. Santos Enterprise includes advanced tools such as predictive dynamics, comprehensive analysis for load-bearing, thermal comfort simulations, more detailed physiological modeling, and access to the API for integrating your own models or data.

What is the difference between Santos Basic and SoldierSim?

Santos Basic is designed for general ergonomics and human factors applications, whereas GruntSim is tailored specifically for the military to analyze load configurations, mobility, energy expenditure, and torque requirements of soldiers under various conditions.

Is there a Quick Start Guide for Santos Basic?

Yes, a Quick Start Guide is available to assist new users in setting up and navigating key features of Santos Basic.

What is the history behind Santos Basic?

Santos Basic originated from the Santos digital human modeling platform developed by the University of Iowa’s Virtual Soldier Research program, founded by Professor Karim Abdel-Malek. Initially created with US military funding, the platform has grown to support a wide range of applications.

Is there online support for Santos Basic?

Yes, iHuman offers online support, including FAQs. Users can also access documentation and knowledge articles through the support portal.

How do I report errors or bugs in Santos Basic?

To report any errors or bugs, contact iHuman support via email or through the online support portal. Be sure to include detailed information about the issue and any relevant screenshots or error messages.

Was Santos developed for the US Military?

Yes, Santos was initially developed for the US Army, to assist in designing products with the Warfighter in mind. Its applications have since expanded into other fields such as healthcare, manufacturing, and product design.

What are the products offered by iHuman?

iHuman offers a range of Santos-related products, including Santos Basic, Santos Enterprise, GruntSim and other specialized human simulation tools designed for ergonomic analysis, military training, and human-centered design. Each product provides unique capabilities tailored to specific industry needs.

Who is Santos?

Santos: a Human Digital Twin

Santos, developed over a period of 20 years at the University of Iowa in collaboration with the US Military and many industry partners, transcends his military persona to become a powerful human digital twin. This biomechanically-accurate physiology-enabled human digital twin acts as a sophisticated model, replicating human movement, reactions, and even internal anatomy within simulated environments.

Revolutionizing Product Design and Testing

Santos' capabilities as a digital twin can be used to assess and refine products before physical prototypes are built. Imagine testing a car seat for comfort and support, or evaluating the fit and function of a virtual reality headset – all with Santos in the driver's seat. This not only saves time and resources but also allows for stress testing in extreme virtual scenarios, ensuring product safety and durability.

Optimizing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Santos' role shines in evaluating personal protective equipment, particularly armor. By simulating impacts, he allows for assessments of how armor distributes force, protects against blunt trauma and ballistics, and even predicts potential internal injuries. Furthermore, Santos can analyze the impact of armor weight and bulk on soldier mobility, agility, and balance. This virtual testing paves the way for designing comfortable, effective armor that doesn't hinder soldier performance.

Beyond the Obvious:

Santos' capabilities extend further. He can be used to assess user interfaces for ease of use, analyze hand grasping and fine motor skills for tool design, and even evaluate the fit and function of clothing and wearables. By incorporating anthropometric data, Santos can represent a diverse range of body types, ensuring products are designed for a more inclusive user base.

The Future of Human Digital Twins:

Santos represents a groundbreaking step towards the future of human digital twins. As AI and simulation technologies continue to evolve, these virtual surrogates have the potential to revolutionize countless fields, from product design and healthcare research to training and education. With Santos leading the way, the lines between the digital and real world are blurring, ultimately helping us better understand ourselves and the products we interact with.

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