A networked virtual laboratory consisting of a virtual manufacturing cell is developed using a general object oriented architecture for distributed virtual reality (OODVR) developed for this purpose.

Nowadays, the industrial sector and specially manufacturing companies, have a huge challenge trying to train the workforce while maintaining up to date with the technology, machinery and manufacturing techniques involved in the production process. For that reason this sector claims for effective, in time and quality, training methodologies that do not interrupt or interfere with the continuous ...

This paper describes how a link between Virtual Reality and Rapid Prototyping was established at Clemson to enhance the designer’s understanding of manufacturing issues. It surveys the literature in the area of virtual reality and discusses some of the issues of translating an STL model into the appropriate format for Virtual Reality. The paper then speculates on the usefulness of such a tool f...

Abstract Compaired with mart manufacturing and digital manufacturing, virtual is a more advanced mode, which flexible, inexpensive suitable for modern competitive society. No matter what type of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) necessary plays key role. So this paper focuses on the MES in manufacturing. serves as bridge to connect upper planning layer control factory. It has at least 8 func...

The main aim of this paper is to present possibilities of assembling manufacturing process visualization by using special tools from scientific area named Augmented Reality (AR) and axamples of their implementation. After the introduction which sketch basic information interested field, the first part provides view on the common situation in AR of manufacturing processes. The next step is orien...

Virtual environments (VEs) are becoming important tools for simulating manufacturing systems. Various virtual environment constructing techniques and toolkits have been devised in recent years. This paper provides an “inside” view of those methods. Based on the insight, a futuristic VE construction approach that aims to integrate manufacturing application knowledge with environment data is prop...

This paper develops a mathematical model in dynamic virtual cellular manufacturing systems with the multiperiod cell formation problem, production planning, dynamic virtual system reconfiguration and training workers. Since workers have important role in doing jobs on machines, assignment of workers to cells becomes a crucial factor in cellular manufacturing system. Also we have shown the role ...

We outline a procedure for implementing a virtual CNC lathe prototype using software for creating virtual environments. The prototype constructed focus on the lathe’s interlocking system (its functionality) and on its geometric model (its physical design). This project allowed us to identify the possibilities and limitations of applying current Virtual Reality technology for virtual prototyping...

This paper describes the initiation of our project to study three-dimensional navigation through manufacturing knowledge domains suitable for training. In summary we are organizing and representing knowledge from the NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) and associating that knowledge with virtual objects within a virtual, three-dimensional environment. We are using the MEL Shop as a ...