Virtual Reality for Product Development in Manufacturing Industries
Currently, Virtual Reality (VR) systems give industries in different domains the possibility to interact with and work into a simulated environment in order to improve their processes, efficiency and effectiveness, fast introducing new products in the mar
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Università del Salento, Via per Monteroni s.n., Lecce, Italy {laura.schina,mariangela.lazoi, roberto.lombardo,angelo.corallo}@unisalento.it
Abstract. Currently, Virtual Reality (VR) systems give industries in different domains the possibility to interact with and work into a simulated environment in order to improve their processes, efficiency and effectiveness, fast introducing new products in the market in a cost effective way. The fundamental idea is to identify the main applications of Virtual Reality in the manufacturing domain and provide valuable insights for future research and trends concern the application of this technology along the whole product development process. This paper aims to propose a set of new emerging scenarios, composed of Virtual Reality technologies, tools and systems used in manufacturing industries with a focus on the aerospace sector. The proposed scenarios are based on projects and initiatives carried out for applying the VR to industries in order to optimize internal processes and the overall supply chain. Keywords: Virtual reality · New product development · Manufacturing industries · Aerospace · Emerging scenarios
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The development of a product is a complex and articulated process that requires to work both on its conceptual model and on its functional components. A common used abstrac‐ tion in this context is the definition of (and the mapping between) functional and physical elements, that work together to provide new products architectures, configurations and features (Ulrich and Eppinger 2008). In particular, the design of physical elements has important and direct consequences on all the phases of the product lifecycle and on the product performance. Moreover, it has a significant impact on the time and costs needed to develop and manufacture the product. An important feature of the product data is their interlinks with different activities and lifecycle phases (Ameri and Dutta 2005), that require appropriate tools and meth‐ odologies to be efficiently managed. In this aim, specialized technologies can be used to support the different stages of the product design, and the manipulation and analysis of the data related to physical and functional elements. The set of most used technologies in manufacturing industries, consists of Computer Aided Technologies (CAx) used to define engineering, manufacturing or testing data, including CAD systems for the design © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 L.T. De Paolis and A. Mongelli (Eds.): AVR 2016, Part I, LNCS 9768, pp. 198–207, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40621-3_15
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activities and CAM for the manufacturing ones. Centralized data management is often implemented for the product data in the form of Product Data Management (PDM) software. PDM are commonly used to store mainly CAD data enriched with other product data, that may include advanced features such as workflow definition, query definition, etc. (Grieves 2006). In this context, the use of the most adequate and va
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