This paper describes the architecture and concept of operation of a Virtual Reality-Enhanced Integrated Process Design Environment (VR-IPDE), a novel architecture for effectively applying Virtual Reality (VR) technology in the context of manufacturing system design. Virtual Prototyping (VP) and Simulation Based Design (SBD) have been used with increasing success in the application of Virtual Re...

Mounting machine is the most critical equipment in the SMT (Surface Mounted Technology), the production efficiency of which affects the entire assembly line's productivity dramatically, and can be the bottleneck of the assembly line if poorly designed. In order to enhance the VM(Virtual Manufacturing) of mounting simulation for PCB(Printed Circuit Board) circuit modular, the virtual reality sim...

Virtual prototyping in manufacturing gains more and more importance, since companies competing in industry noticed the increasing cost pressure alongside higher quality requirements. The utilization of virtual prototyping techniques provides a possibility to reduce the total development costs and the time to market, while simultaneously innovations of both products and processes increase the ov...

Virtual reality (VR) technology provides a human-computer interface that allows participants to interact naturally with digital objects which are represented as three-dimensional images that occupy positions in a three-dimensional world. Related to problems of engineering design and manufacturing, this new technology offers engineers the ability to work with computer models in a three-dimension...

Article history: Received 20 May 2011 Received in revised form 14 December 2011 Accepted 15 December 2011 Available online 27 December 2011