Nowadays, the necessity of manufacturers’ response to their customers’ needs and their fields of activities have extended widely. The cellular manufacturing systems have adopted reduced costs from mass-production systems and high flexibility from job-shop manufacturing systems, and therefore, they are very popular in modern manufacturing environments. Manufacturing systems, in addit...

Virtual Reality technology is becoming an increasingly popular in diverse areas from scientific data analysis to entertainment. An important feature of this technology is the Stereoscopic display of computer-generated images to produce three-dimensional visual effects. The visualization tool is an ASCII text file driven system to visually simulate the modeled operation in 3D virtual space. Ster...

Today’s business environment has forced manufacturers and plants to produce high-quality products at low cost and the shortest possible delivery time. To cope with this challenge, manufacturing organizations need to optimize the manufacturing and other functions that are in logical association with each other. Therefore, manufacturing system design and supplier selection process are linked toge...

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...