HEGO · Health, safety and ErGOnomics for the future human-centric factory

MSDs are inflammatory and/or degenerative ailments affecting all sectors and all categories of workers, and are by far the most common work-related health problem in the European industry. The biggest Europe-wide occupational health survey found 46% of European workers reporting back pain, while 43% had painful shoulder, neck and upper limb muscles. The social and economic consequences of this “pandemic” are now becoming clear: •MSDs accounted for 53% of work-related diseases in the EU-15, affecting 100 million people and causing half the absences from work and 60% of permanent work incapacity.•Total cost of lost productivity attributable to MSDs is 2% of gross domestic product in the EU (€240 billion).HEGO is an innovative solution based on a proprietary set of Motion Capture algorithms able to recognize the workers’ gender, age, posture and movements in real-time and monitor ergonomics to adapt both workspace and workload according to worker’s personal profile, to inform about potential MSDs risks, and to provide insights for improving the work environments. Without the use of wearable devices and thanks to an automatic analysis of ergonomic risk factors, HEGO can detect any incorrect posture of the worker or risky situations, suggesting to operators the corrective actions. The performance of the system is outstanding and has been validated in industrial facilities: accuracy in recognition of skeleton points and movements > 85%; true positives and true negative in the recognition of an incorrect posture > 90%; data synchronization times < 0.5 sec. HEGO contributes to promote health and safety in industrial workplaces (Human-centered manufacturing concept) by providing a low cost and reliable solution.