Measures hand forces

It may also be used to identify and quantify potential risks from handling loads over the course of a working life and for ergonomic and biomechanical load analyses as the basis for solving design, construction or relevant health and safety issues associated with new equipment and/or working practices.

The system is suitable for measuring forces at the man-machine interface in the R&D laboratory and for designing and testing machines and systems in the production environment.

The Kistler Type 9809A system consists of two piezoelectric 5 component measuring handles, a USB interface, all cables and data acquisition, data logger and evaluation software for running on a PC which records force data directly via USB interface or imports files that have been recorded by the data logger. From the individual force curves, the overall 3D forces and the centre of pressure are calculated for different coordinate systems (handle, object and spatial). Measurement files can then be exported in ASCII CSV format.