The Comprehensive Study on Virtual Manufacturing
The virtual manufacturing is an advanced manufacturing technology which came into being in 1990s. Due to fierce market competition, manufacturers are making radical changes in management practices and investing greatly in advanced technologies in order to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Under this circumstances, the virtual manufacturing technology was formed gradually. Nowadays, the concordant understanding of virtual manufacturing is: set up the virtual model of production system and then simulate the real manufacturing process. According to that, its obvious to find that without real manufacturing process, the satisfaction of virtual model production system can still be verified. If some changes about the virtual manufacturing model need to be done for optimizing production system, the right of making corresponding changes is rested in manufacturers hands and its easier to obtain the optimization by the means of virtual manufacturing than the traditional ones. Virtual manufacturing has made rapid progress in the 21st century. This article introduced the definition and characteristics of virtual manufacturing and its classification and key technologies, its development and application situation, and finally, we pointed out the developing trend of virtual manufacturing and gave some suggestions on that.
Virtual manufacturing (VM) Product design Virtual reality Simulation
Changjun JI
School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian 116028, China
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Mechatronics and Materials Processing(2011年机电一体化与材料加工国际会议 ICMMP)
广州
英文
681-684
2011-11-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）