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“Since the mid 80’s Monterey Technologies, Inc. has been supporting simulation-based research on Army helicopter crew station design issues for AMRDEC’s Aeroflightdynamics directorate at NASA Ames Research Center. Their work has been uniformly excellent. Two of their personnel received commendation awards for their outstanding work for us. Without question, MTI is a company we look to when facing technical barriers in human factors, and crew station design.”
“Monterey Technologies, Inc. is one of the most competent and professional companies I have had the pleasure to work with over my 37 year career. Their knowledge of human behavior in complex military systems is complementary to our simulation and modeling efforts. Dr. Hennessy’s technical reputation is nationally recognized and this knowledge directly reflects upon the outstanding technical staff he has developed. His Management Controls are superb. I look forward to working with them on the many forthcoming opportunities to provide support for our national defense and homeland security needs.”
“I have known Bob Hennessy for over twenty years. Monterey Technologies, Inc. is one of the best human factors companies around. They are currently helping us develop new approaches to aerial gunnery training and I am more than pleased with their work.”
“MTI has a sterling reputation in the human factors community for careful, high quality analyses and good value for cost. I have personally known MTI staff and about their human factors work for more than fifteen years. They always deliver a high quality product. They helped the Air Force establish the Crew System Ergonomics Information Analysis Center (CSERIAC) and recently delivered a human factors test bed for a satellite controller's workstation.”
"Monterey Technologies, Inc. has been one of my most valuable contractors for over ten years. Their work in support of the Army's Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate (RPA) simulation testing was particularly important. Their crew station design and evaluation work is first-rate. I have no problem recommending MTI to anyone who needs human factors and simulation expertise."
“The work that Monterey Technologies, Inc. team is doing for the Commonwealth of Australia developing complex mission scenarios for training our Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control mission crews is outstanding. You are our only contractor on the project who delivers more than we expect, - ahead of schedule!”
“the quality of work MTI provides to the RPT is consistently outstanding. The company obviously hand-picks it’s employees. I have never seen such a consistently excellent performance from contractors or Government organizations. We couldn’t get this job done without the support from MTI”
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Human Factors Engineering (HFE)
A key element of Human Systems Integration
Human Factors Engineering (HFE) is the analysis and evaluation of human performance with regard to technology people use, with an emphasis on human capabilities and limitations. Some products can be difficult to use typically because an engineering team designed it without researching and planning for the users needs and level of understanding. Engineering teams build many functions into their products because they can, not necessarily because their users want or know how to use them. Sometimes adding extra functions is not the best approach and can result in a product that has many functions, most of which the typical user does not understand or use.
The typical result from engineering teams charged with product design, without human factors assistance, is a product that meets specifications and has all of the required functionality, but is extremely difficult for people to figure out and use.
For example, setting the time on first generation VCRs was a very difficult task. With the help of human factors, those difficult to use VCRs became today’s DVRs (digital video recorders). Today, DVRs have intuitive and graphical screens, easy to use remote controls and more to help make the experience of using them better for the end user.
The goal of human factors, and what MTI can do for you, is to ensure that people can successfully use products and systems: to help design systems that do what the users need them to do, while making sure that the products are safe and efficient.
How does MTI accomplish this? Our human factors professionals go through a series of specific analyses to ensure our clients fully understand their users’ needs (there may be multiple groups with differing needs). Then, we study the detailed interactions that the users have with a system or product (what the user does, and how he or she does it). These critical analyses form the basis for system design and provide insight on what to build (user functionality), how to build it (user interface) and what training might be needed for the user to properly employ the product or system. MTI’s baseline analyses include:
Are you contemplating a hardware or software solution to your problem without the information from these analyses? Most organizations do just that, and then pay again to develop version 2.0 of the solution.
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to let us save you that money by making sure you have the right information before you buy or develop hardware or software.
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