Virtual Manufacturing : Tools for improving Design and Production

Philippe Dépincé (1) , Damien Chablat (1) , Peer-Oliver Woelk (2)

1 IRCCyN - Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes
2 IFW - Institute of Production Engineering and Machine Tools

The research area "Virtual Manufacturing" can be defined as an integrated manufacturing environment which can enhance one or several levels of decision and control in manufacturing process. Several domains can be addressed: Product and Process Design, Process and Production Planning, Machine Tool, Robot and Manufacturing System. As automation technologies such as CAD/CAM have substantially shortened the time required to design products, Virtual Manufacturing will have a similar effect on the manufacturing phase thanks to the modelling, simulation and optimisation of the product and the processes involved in its fabrication.

Mots clés: virtual manufacturing; socio-economic factors; simulation tools for manufacturing

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]; Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]; Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]

Philippe Dépincé, Damien Chablat, Peer-Oliver Woelk. Virtual Manufacturing : Tools for improving Design and Production. CIRP International Design Seminar, 2004, Caire, Egypt. pp.1-12. ⟨hal-00166317⟩