{"id":5110,"date":"2016-09-05T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T17:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/knowledge\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:01:49","slug":"pe-inclusive-design-helps-shape-high-tech-fitness-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/5110\/pe-inclusive-design-helps-shape-high-tech-fitness-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Inclusive Design Helps Shape High-Tech Fitness Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good product design and engineering, when cleverly conceived and strategically executed, can be a great enabler. Witness The Access Strength\u2122, a fitness\/rehabilitation machine from IncludeFitness Inc.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Due to its cloud-based Internet connectivity, this device has broadened its scope from being simply a piece of exercise equipment to being a healthcare platform helping to facilitate data sharing and interaction among patients, therapists, technicians, administrators and even healthcare insurance providers.<\/p>\n

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VERSATILITY & ACCESSABILITY \u2014 Two independent arms rotate 180 degrees while patented carts travel in and out along the arms. This combination caters to individual body sizes, reaches and comfort, allowing for hundreds of upper and lower body exercises to be completed on one machine and performed while standing, seated, or in a wheelchair.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite its small footprint, the Access Strength features rotating arms and adjustable handles that provide a tremendous number of easily adjusted upper- and lower-body exercises on one machine, and is designed to accommodate all users — regardless of size, age, mobility or fitness level.<\/p>\n

Ryan Eder, the 33-year-old founder and CEO of Cincinnati-based IncludeFitness, began developing the machine a decade ago, when he was still an industrial design student at the University of Cincinnati. His journey started when he saw a man in a wheelchair struggling to exercise at a local health club. After that, he called 200 health clubs across the country to ask if they offered any special accommodations for disabled guests. None did.<\/p>\n

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FROM STUDENT PROJECT TO THE MARKETPLACE \u2014 Ryan Eder developed the concept for the Access Strength fitness machine as his senior thesis as an industrial design student at the University of Cincinnati. Ten-plus years, $4 million and many design awards later, the first machines are due to ship in early 2017. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The able-bodied student then took the immersive route — renting a wheelchair and going to work out, joining a wheelchair football league, interviewing paraplegics and quadriplegics — all in an effort to try to understand what others were experiencing.<\/p>\n

From his research, he quickly understood one thing: \u201cI learned that anyone who was in a wheelchair had no interest<\/u> in having a wheelchair-centric machine. They wanted a machine that everybody can use — from an athlete to a senior to a child.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Eder began sketching, and devoted his senior thesis to this concept of an inclusive fitness machine. He graduated from UC in 2006, began working at Priority Designs<\/a> in Columbus, Ohio, and entered his concept into the Industrial Designers Society of America\u2019s awards competition — the International Design Excellence Awards (or IDEAs).<\/p>\n

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A DECADE OF DEVELOPMENT \u2014 Ryan Eder in 2006 observed a man in a wheelchair struggling to work out, and thought, \u201cThere has to be a better way.\u201d That sparked a decade-long journey to redefine the delivery of fitness and rehabilitation. Eder and his partners have worked with patients, practitioners, administrators, technicians and others to develop a highly inclusive design to meet the needs of a diverse population.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He won big. At the 2007 IDSA conference in San Francisco, Eder captured Gold in the student category, as well as \u201cBest in Show\u201d among all 1,700 or so entries. Then, to cap it off, he won the \u201cPeople\u2019s Choice\u201d award, based on voting by attendees at the conference.<\/p>\n

That recognition catapulted the project forward, and prompted Eder to realize that this might be able to grow into something much more than just a student project. In a presentation at UC after receiving his awards, Eder made an appeal, saying, \u201cI\u2019m trying to build this machine. I\u2019m trying to help people, but I need help to help people.\u201d That drew interest from Procter & Gamble Co. and CincyTech, a local technology seed fund — and brought in $50,000 in funding.<\/p>\n

The P&G support led to a collaborative at UC, and Eder\u2019s senior thesis became the thesis for about 10-12 engineering students there for the next two years. Their task was to take these concepts, which were just on paper, and prove their feasibility both electronically and mechanically.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest challenge we had,\u201d Eder explained in an Aug. 31 telephone interview, \u201cinvolved the juxtaposition between usability standards and safety standards. We had two people for UL come out to Columbus [Ohio] and evaluate one of our pre-production units, because we wanted to design it to UL 60601 specs<\/a> [the harmonized standard for medical electrical equipment recognized by public health authorities in most countries], even though it\u2019s not a medical device.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal was to ensure that everything on the machine could withstand excessive abuse, and not cause any harm.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s take a seat, for example,\u201d he said, \u201cthat needs to be adjusted with a single extremity, with no dexterity, with less than 6.7 pounds of force, but needs to have a 4x safety factor for a 350-pound patient. So it\u2019s kind of like being able to move a tank with your finger. Those kinds of parameters cause you to be very creative, from an engineering and design perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

But costs also were critical, since the ultimate machine had to be able to go into the market at a competitive price point. That limited some of their options.<\/p>\n

\u201cComposite materials, for example, are fantastic from a performance perspective, and are able to meet some of these conflicting parameters, but often times lead to higher costs. So we really weren\u2019t in a position to explore unique materials or composites due to that. We\u2019re still using traditional, injection molded plastics — mostly ABS and acetal — and we bent steel and powder-coated and temperature-treated it. It\u2019s still basic materials, but it\u2019s finding creative ways to make it very easy to use while being extremely robust and safe, for a variety of demographics.\u201d<\/p>\n

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RETHINKING EVERY INTERACTION \u2014 The Access Strength machine incorporates 100-plus inclusive-design rules and guidelines that Eder has helped both ASTM International and RESNA to develop over the past several years as part of their standards to even the playing field for disabled individuals. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Access Strength incorporates more than 20 plastic parts. Most are shrouds to protect the inner workings. Only a few of them — the dials, specifically — are really critical to its overall function. \u201cThe dials are precision injection molded,\u201d Eder said, \u201cand are an assembly of multiple parts that has a real fit-and-feel element to it, while also providing the main guide for any visual input on the machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first look, he suggests, our machine seems deceivingly simple — \u201cbut that took a lot of effort to do. There\u2019s a lot of functionality built into this machine. Everything has been engineered and designed from the ground up.\u201d They didn\u2019t, for example, use a single spring-loaded pin, which is standard in the traditional fitness industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe rethought every interaction you could have with the machine. You can do every one with a single arm and a closed fist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Priority Designs was \u201cinsanely supportive,\u201d Eder said. \u201cThey built the first prototype machine for me, and became partial investors in my company. I worked at Priority for seven years, and moonlit with IncludeFitness while there for seven years, eventually forming it as an LLC in 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eder and his team built a mobile showroom — a 40-foot rig — and took it on a road trip in early 2013, to the Veterans Administration\u2019s National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., and to New York City, where legendary designer Michael Graves was the first to demo it.<\/p>\n

During this period, the idea surfaced of incorporating software into the machine. \u201cThat got us thinking about the possibilities,\u201d Eder said. The group raised some more money — to date, IncludeFitness has raised in total a little over $4 million — and began developing software programs through a firm called and AWH<\/a> in Columbus.<\/p>\n

The result is IFCloud\u2122, which Eder says essentially transformed the concept for an inclusive fitness machine into a digital health platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a web app,\u201d he explains. \u201cYou can go online and build your own exercise or work-out programs. We have base libraries but you can go and create your own. It uses drag-and-drop scheduling. Go to any of our machines anywhere, use an RFID tag and pull up your profile. It tells you how to set the machine, sets the weight for you automatically, and then records all this data in the background. It keeps track of everything, and sends it back to the cloud.\u201d The data can then be shared with therapists, doctors and even insurance companies — \u201cin a way that\u2019s never been done before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MAKING A \u2018SMART\u2019 WORKOUT MACHINE \u2014 IncludeFitness worked with AWH software developers in Columbus, Ohio, to create the IFCloud. This interconnected, cloud-based software platform is designed to streamline and enhance communication between all tiers in the healthcare system. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The IF Cloud software provides a platform that can do a lot of things. \u201cWe want to sure it\u2019s relevant for the three tiers in healthcare — payers, providers and patients. Our focus,\u201d Eder says, \u201cis a higher-quality, more-efficient delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n

IncludeFitness works with TSS Technologies<\/a> of West Chester, Ohio — a contract manufacturing and systems integration\/engineering company. TSS oversees all the procurement, production, assembly, quality control, fulfilment, and manages the supply chain. Ryan and his brother, Brandon, do all the industrial design. Priority Designs handles all the engineering, and AWH develops the software.<\/p>\n

For the past seven years, Eder has been part of standards committees for inclusive fitness equipment for ASTM International<\/a> and of RESNA<\/a>, the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America.<\/p>\n

In that time, he notes, \u201cwe\u2019ve created 117 rules and guides to make things truly accessible. We\u2019ve infused every one of those into our system, and we\u2019re the only one to do that.\u201d IncludeFitness has eight issued patents, with more pending.<\/p>\n

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READY FOR PRIME TIME: IncludeFitness\u2019s Access Strength machine in August won three more IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Awards \u2014 including Best in Show from among 1,700 entries worldwide. This happened nine years after Ryan Eder won 3 IDEAs for the same project, back when it was still just a concept on paper. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Others are noticing, and the efforts are paying off. This past August in Detroit, again at IDSA\u2019s annual international conference, Eder repeated his hat trick — winning Gold in the 2016 IDEA competition<\/a>\u2019s Sports, Leisure & Recreation category, taking home its Design for Equality award, and snaring Best in Show, again.<\/p>\n

The company has already sold machines, and plans to start shipping product early in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning what we did this year was more rewarding than winning it the first time. Winning it the first time, I had put 10 weeks into the project. It rocked my world, and created this opportunity. But now, I have 10 years into this, and it\u2019s so much bigger than what it was when I was a student. \u2026 Now we realize that this is just the tip of a massive iceberg. It\u2019s very exciting for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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