Designing Passengers Cabin of Carrier Vehicles of 6x6 Armour Personnel with Principles of Ergonomic

Abstract

Anoa is one of the primary weaponry defense system of Republic of Indonesia, however the original design Anoa adapted from a similar vehicle from France, whose inhabitants have a different body postures from Indonesian people. This research is aimed to find out whether the Anoa design is ergonomic for Indonesian Army. The research was formed with review the shoter cockpit and passenger cabin at Anoa Panser 2 and then redesign according to percentil 5% & 95% of Indonesian Army personnel anthropometric. In addition to accordingly fitting to personnel anthropometric, improvement also formed based on personnel complaint through Nordic questionnaire. The questionnaire result was processed using QFD method to find out improvement needs that should be prioritized. Based on QFD analisys, improvement that should be prioritized are comfortable seating, appropriate and comfortable doors, safe shooting position, seating for shooter. The next is the design result was simulated using Software Jack to get the value LBA, OWAS, and RULA which used to search the value of PEI of existing and improved design then compare them. According to compared result of PEI value is known that after adjusting the anthropometric size of Indonesia Army the value of PEI becomes smaller.