APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING EQUIPMENT OPERABILITY EVALUATION

There is disclosed an apparatus for supporting an evaluation of equipment operability in which simulation equipment models of design object equipment or layout object equipment are arranged in a simulation space together with simulation body-shaped models patterned after humans who may operate the equipment, and the body-shaped models are moved within the simulation space so that an evaluation of operability of the layout object equipment is supported. A reference position of a body-shaped model to be arranged in the simulation space is defined in accordance with a basic posture of the body-shaped model. When the present model is changed to a body-shaped model which is different in the body form, the body-shaped model after an alteration is arranged in the simulation space so that the reference position coincides with the reference position before the alteration.