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MIL-HDBK-46855 Revision A:1999
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HUMAN ENGINEERING PROGRAM - PROCESS AND PROCEDURES
24-05-2011
FOREWORD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF TABLES
1 SCOPE
1.1 General
1.2 Applicability
1.3 Application guidance
2 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS
2.1 General
2.2 Government documents
3 DEFINITIONS
3.1 General
3.2 Acronyms used in this handbook
4 PROGRAM TASKS
4.1 General guidelines
4.2 Detailed guidelines
5 SIGNIFICANCE OF HE FOR PROGRAM ACQUISITION
5.1 HE support in system acquisition
5.2 HE activity areas
5.3 The value of HE
5.4 References
6 HE PROCEDURES FOR DOD ORGANIZATIONS
6.1 General
6.2 Application of HE during system acquisition
6.3 Program planning, budgeting, and scheduling
6.4 Coordination
6.5 Preparation of the Request for Proposal
6.6 Proposal evaluation
6.7 Contractor monitoring
6.8 References
7 HE PROCEDURES FOR CONTRACTORS
7.1 HE design standards and guidelines
7.2 Program organization and management
7.3 Application of HE during system acquisition
7.4 General contractor considerations
7.5 References
8 HE METHODS AND TOOLS
8.1 Overview
8.2 HE analysis
8.3 Methods
8.4 HE design and development
8.5 HE design and development methods
8.6 HE during test and evaluation
8.7 HE T&E methods
8.8 References
9 NOTES
9.1 Intended use
9.2 Subject term (key work listing)
9.3 Tailoring guidance
9.4 Changes from previous issue
FIGURE
1 - HE as a bridge between human-related data and
2 - Typical program phases for HE activity areas
during system development
3 - Test concept and test concept development
4 - Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (sample) showing
relation of program WBS to contractor
5 - Relation Among Program Planning Documents
Supporting Traceability in Design
6 - CRDL (DD Form 1423)
7 - National Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) contained
in the Integrated Management Plan (IMP)
8 - Hypothetical example of program manpower estimates
9 - Mission profile (sample)
10 - PARI interview structure
11 - Cognitive graph (map) (sample)
12 - Functional flows (sample)
13 - Operational sequence diagram (sample)
14 - Special combinations of OSD symbol
15 - FPC and OSD symbology
16 - Flow process chart (sample)
17 - Decision/action diagram (sample)
18 - Action information requirements form (sample)
19 - Timeline (sample)
20 - Basic function box for an IDEF[0] graph
21 - System decomposition using multiple IDEF graphs
22 - IDEF[1X] graph showing conventions for defining
entities and their relationships
23 - Functions allocation screening worksheet
24 - Design evaluation matrix (sample)
25 - Workload analysis profile (sample)
26 - 10-Dimensional SART scale
27 - Link table (sample)
28 - Adjacency layout diagram (sample)
29 - Spatial operational sequence diagram
30 - MIL-STD-1472 design criteria checklist (sample)
31 - Reach analysis using COMBIMAN, a computerized
model of a seated operator/pilot (sample)
32 - Technical manual functional evaluation form
(sample)
33 - Personnel data form (sample)
TABLES
I - HSI elements and the areas of concern for each
II - Subjects of concern to HE
III - Benefits from HE examples
IV - Acquisition Cycle Interrelationship
V - Relation of Representative HE function to other
Program Discipline and function, and to Acquisition
and Research Phases
VI - HE analysis methods selection characteristics
VII - HE analysis method applications
VIII - Methods Time Measurement (MTM) table (sample)
IX - Interview structure for the Critical Decision
Method
X - Human-machine capabilities (Fitts Law)
XI - HE design and development methods selection chart
XII - Application areas for HE design and development
methods
XIII - T&E methods selection chart
XIV - Application areas for T&E methods
XV - Questions Types and response strategies
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