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June 2025
- NexGen Ergonomics Inc will be exhibiting at The Association of Canadian Ergonomists (ACE) 2025 annual conference in Quebec City. Conference info will be provided at the ACE website.
May 2025
- NexGen released ErgoImager Pro V7. New tools in V7 include LiFFT (Lifting Fatigue Failure Tool), DUET (Distal Upper Extremity Tool) and the Shoulder Tool.
January 2025
- NexGen released ErgoImager Pro V6 with a new 2D biomechanical model.
October 2024
- NexGen Ergonomics is proud to be a Nittany tier sponsor of Nittany Motorsports, a college FSAE team at Penn State University. Their Formula Electric SAE program is a member of an international collegiate design series where students design and build a Formula-style race car to compete against other collegiate teams. This car is evaluated during the annual competition at Michigan International Speedway through a series of static and dynamic events.
May 2024
- NexGen released ErgoImager Pro V5 which includes enhanced reporting and file saving options. ErgoImager Pro has an extensive set of tools and features which can be purchased as separate modules or as a complete system with all modules and options.
November 2023
- NexGen released ErgoImager Pro V4 software with numerous features including New Liberty Mutual MMH 2021, Revised Strain Index (RSI), Composite Strain Index (COSI) & Cumulative Strain Index (CUSI), Hand strength MAE & AFF (Arm Force Field), calculation and display of the mannequin's Center of Gravity, posture library with predefined and user defined postures, Forward and /Inverse Kinematics movement, detailed anthropometry and BSIP data, Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation, Energy Expenditure, OWAS, Snook & Ciriello Tables, Mital, Nicholson & Ayoub Tables, RULA, REBA and more.
October 2023
- NexGen Ergonomics Inc is pleased to be a Platinum sponsor of the Case Western Reserve University engineering design team that competes in official Baja SAE competitions. The 2023-2024 competition season marks Case Western Reserve University's twenty-third consecutive year of participation in the Baja SAE competition series. Since 2001, the CWRU Motorsports Baja team has been continually innovating to create one of the best cars in the competition.
June 2023
- NexGen releases the Alpha version of its new ErgoImager Pro software.
May 2023
- HumanCAD 6.3 has been released. An updated Academic Guide has also been released with new exercises. 19 exercises are now included. ErgoTools is required for the Academic Guide.
March 2023
- NexGen Ergonomics is planning on exhibiting at the Association of Canadian Ergonomists (ACE) 2023 annual conference,
October 2 to 5, 2023 at Burlington Holiday Inn and Conference Centre, 3063 S Service Rd, Burlington, ON L7N 3E9 Canada
September 2022
- NexGen Ergonomics Inc is pleased to be a sponsor of the UCLA Bruin Racing team (Los Angeles, CA, USA) competing in the intercollegiate Baja SAE series competition. The team will design and manufacture a single-seat off-road vehicle.
- HumanCAD Version 6.1 has been released. This release includes faster mannequin creation, correction to the selection of Weight-Height percentiles that affected some mannequin creations, as well as other reported issues.
July 2022
- Our corporation started in July 1982. NexGen Ergonomics turned 40 in July 2022.
March 2022
- NexGen Ergonomics releases HumanCAD Version 6. V6 includes a new balance feature, more databases, new clothing appearance options and other updates. In ErgoTools we have added the Hand Strength MAE (Maximum Acceptable Efforts) and AFF (Arm Force Field) methods. Additional databases and ROM data have been added to the Child Module. As well, a new optional Elderly Module has been released.
February 2022
- NexGen Ergonomics releases HM-Analyzer Version 5. V5 includes the New Ergo-Analyzer module. HM-Analyzer software runs on I2M, APDM and Xsens Awinda inertial sensor systems.