In today's industrial landscape, enhancing worker safety and operational efficiency is paramount. At Verve Motion, we've recently released Verve Logic™, an integrated software and data analytics platform that significantly elevates the functionality of our SafeLift™ exosuit technology.
This post explores the features and benefits of Verve Logic, showcasing how it revolutionizes industrial operations and worker safety.
Background: Verve Motion and SafeLift™ Exosuit
Based on a decade of research at Harvard University’s Biodesign Laboratory funded by the military, and backed by over $40 million in venture funding, in 2020 Verve Motion has commercialized a groundbreaking workplace safety and productivity solution: the SafeLift™ exosuit.
The exosuit is a soft, lightweight wearable robot designed to alleviate up to 40% of the strain from workers during lifting operations. Worn like a backpack, it works in tandem with the user's muscles, providing essential support to reduce the risk of injuries, particularly to the lower back and hips. This suit is notable for its quick setup and minimal training requirements, making it a practical solution for large-scale deployment.
To date, the SafeLift™ exosuit has helped workers across scores of sites lift over 500 million pounds.
Introduction to Verve Logic™
Verve Logic™ is Verve Motion's proprietary software that complements the SafeLift™ exosuit with robust data analytics and management tools. It is designed to elevate industrial worker safety and optimize operations through three main components:
- Personalized Safe Lifting Reporting: The ability to generate reports for each worker which include actionable movement insights aimed at reducing high risk motions.
- Customizable Data Analytics: The ability to track individual level and facility level safety trends over time, and generate custom report groups to draw insights tailored to your use cases.
- Exosuit Inventory Management and Utilization: The ability to track and manage inventory across multiple teams and facilities, and see daily information on exosuit usage including active and inactive users.
Movement Data Collection
Personalized Safe Lifting Reporting
One of the standout features of Verve Logic™ is its ability to generate personalized weekly reports for each worker. These reports provide actionable insights into their lifting habits, highlighting both safe practices and areas for improvement. Key elements of these reports include:
- Personalized summaries of suit utilization and safe lifting habits.
- Highlighting key metrics such as the Pounds Offloaded from the user’s back – placing a number to the physical benefits they feel.
- SafeLift Score assessing their ergonomic lifting posture throughout the week, with the ability to track their progress over time and relative to their peer group.
- A detailed breakdown of four risky motions, highlighting both what they are doing well and opportunities for improvement.
Customizable Data Analytics 
Verve Logic™ offers powerful data analytics tools that allow organizations to track and analyze safety and utilization trends over time. This feature enables the measurement of the impact of various interventions and initiatives, providing insights tailored to specific use cases.
Organizations can generate custom report groups to analyze trends for:
- Individual Workers
- Job Functions
- Departments
- Sites
- New Hire Classes
- Trainers/Supervisor Groups
- Exosuit Inventory Management and Utilization (and many other metrics).
Managing exosuit inventory across multiple teams and 
facilities is streamlined with Verve Logic™
The platform provides company and department dashboards displaying key metrics, including:
- Total Usage Hours: Monitoring usage over time.
- Device and Worker Status: Tracking active versus inactive users.
- Worker Leaderboards: Highlighting usage statistics and identifying top users.
- Daily Utilization Breakdown: Providing detailed insights into how often and effectively the exosuits are being used.
Addressing Key Safety and Operational Questions
Verve Logic™ answers critical questions for safety and operations teams, such as:
- Improvement in Safe Lifting Techniques: Tracking the SafeLift score over time for various organizational segments.
- High-Risk Job Functions: Comparing SafeLift scores across different job functions to identify high-risk areas.
- New Hire Progress: Monitoring the progress of new hires in adopting safe lifting habits.
- Site Comparisons: Identifying the safest and most at-risk sites to prioritize suit allocation, deployment and training.
- Shift and Department Safety: Analyzing safety trends across different shifts and departments.
- Trainer Effectiveness: Evaluating the impact of trainers on safe lifting habits and identifying areas for retraining.
- Movement Trends: Tracking changes in specific risky movements, such as twisting and excessive forward bending.
Export and Offline Analysis
Verve Logic™ flows for the export of all movement and utilization data as CSV files, facilitating further offline analysis and comparison with warehouse management system (WMS) data.
The Bottom Line
Verve Motion’s SafeLift™ exosuit, enhanced by the Verve Logic™ platform, offers a comprehensive solution for improving industrial worker safety and operational efficiency. By providing detailed movement insights, customizable analytics, and efficient inventory management, Verve Logic™ empowers organizations to create safer and more productive workplaces.
For more information or to arrange a demo, we invite you to reach out to our team:
