The Virtual Manufacturing Concept: Scope, Socio-Economic Aspects and Future Trends
Author(s) -
P. De ́pince ́,
Damien Chablat,
E. Noe ̈l,
Peer-Oliver Woelk
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
volume 2: 19th computers and information in engineering conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.1115/detc2004-57682
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , automation , computer science , integrated computer aided manufacturing , manufacturing engineering , computer integrated manufacturing , product (mathematics) , cad , manufacturing , smart manufacturing , process development execution system , advanced manufacturing , engineering , systems engineering , business , engineering drawing , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , programming language , marketing
The research area “Virtual Manufacturing (VM)” is the use of information technology and computer simulation to model real world manufacturing processes for the purpose of analysing and understanding them. As automation technologies such as CAD/CAM have substantially shortened the time required to design products, Virtual Manufacturing will have a similar effect on the manufacturing phase thanks to the modelling, simulation and optimisation of the product and the processes involved in its fabrication. After a description of Virtual Manufacturing (definitions and scope), we present some socio-economic factors of VM and finaly some “hot topics” for the future are proposed.
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