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Everybody seems to know how simple it is to procure personal equipment (PE). Still, users of PE are too often confronted with shortcomings in their PE: they may be hampered, or and/or individual components of the PE ensemble do not work together. So the question is: do we really know how to procure PE effectively? TNO worked on a research program called innovative personal equipment (IPE), in close cooperation with the RNlA (Oudenhuijzen, 2011). Three aspects, in support of PE procurement, where the main drivers for this research program: 1. Material innovations: what innovations are implementable, today and in the near future for personal equipment? 2. Thermal modelling: create a model that can be used to design personal equipment with regard to activities and prevention of thermal strain; 3. Development of knowledge and methods/related tools for PE system engineering and to obtain the users operational needs. The ultimate objective of the RNlA is to procure PE as an integral system instead of an assembly of individual components. This paper summarizes an array of publications reporting project results as part of the research program IPE. |
