Collaborative Factory Planning in Virtual Reality
Procedia CIRPPublished 1 January 2012Open access
Nicole Menck, Yang Xiang, Christian Weidig, Pascal A. Winkes, Christian Lauer, Hans Hagen
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The objective of this paper is to describe a VR-based approach that allows the simultaneous visualization, investigation, and analysis for factory planning that gives global entities a competitive advantage when conducting business.
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The competitive development and optimization of manufacturing systems challenge the collaboration and innovation of enterprises. Different information, thinking, and points of view have to be exchanged across engineering, decision-making, and executive levels safely and effectively. The Virtual Reality (VR) technologies provide the users advanced Human-Computer-Interfaces for designing, analyzing, and optimizing complex manufacturing systems. The objective of this paper is to describe a VR-based approach that allows the simultaneous visualization, investigation, and analysis for factory planning. This gives global entities a competitive advantage when conducting business.
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