The advantages of contemporary communication and information technologies based on virtual reality techniques offer for companies a totally new approach to cooperation. Use of virtual product models can be extended to product development, manufacturing, marketing, customization and selling of products for Internet based virtual enterprises. The presentation addresses how the virtual product mod...

Cellular manufacturing is a promising approach for grouping eeciency in manufacturing systems. Although this problem has been extensively studied in the literature, very few authors have proposed exact methods. The basic cellular manufacturing problem consists in deening cells which lead to the minimum number of bottleneck elements. In this paper, we consider a new formulation of the cellular m...

Given the growing evolution of technology, machinery and manufacturing techniques, conventional methodologies for training the workforce are not enough for the current needs. Therefore methodologies capable to accelerate the training process and able to train the trainee in a wide range of scenarios are claimed for the industrial sector. Virtual reality offers an alternative that has been succe...

Manufacturing is using Virtual Reality tools to enhance the product life cycle. Their definitions are still in flux and it is necessary to define their connections. Thus, firstly, we will introduce more closely some definitions where we will show that, if the Virtual manufacturing concepts originate from machining operations and evolve in this manufacturing area, lots of applications exist in d...

Virtual factory (VF) can provide a total solution for shortening manufacturing cycle time and achieving customer satisfactions. Hence, many world-class companies dedicate themselves to establish their own virtual factories. However, it is di€ficult to implement a virtual factory because of the lack of assistant tools. A three-tier architecture based colored timed Petri net emulator is developed...

Lean manufacturing is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating wastes (non-value added activities) through continuous improvement by conveying the product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of production. In a more basic term, more value with less work. Since lean manufacturing eliminates many of the problems associated with poor production scheduling and line balancing, lean ma...

Transformations in the marketplace have led manufacturing companies to focus on their core competences and compete through new forms of enterprise partnerships. A new concept of enterprise partnership is that of Virtual Enterprise wherein autonomous or independent companies come together to temporally address a specific market demand, by collaborating closely and presenting to the market as a s...