LORAL FEDERAL SYSTEMS' NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CONSOLE DESIGNED USING SAFEWORK IS OFFICIALLY ACCEPTED BY FAA

Safework Inc. a subsidiary of Genicom Consultants Inc. is pleased to announce that Loral Federal Systems' (Loral) new air traffic controller console which was designed using Safework as its human modeling solution has been officially accepted by the FAA.

MONTREAL, March 25, 1998--The Safework system and its mannequins were used throughout the design process by Loral which has been a Safework customer since 1994.

Safework mannequins are well known for their accuracy in representing virtual human beings in various environments. The Safework system has over 103 anthropometric variables and 148 degrees of freedom. Other key features include fully articulated spine and hand models, direct and inverse kinematics, vision module, collision detection, animation and postural analysis.