Improvement of Manufacturing Processes with Virtual Reality based CIP-Workshops

Dirk Ostermayer (1) , Jan Christian Aurich (2) , Christian Wagenknecht (2)

1 Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Production Management
2 Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Production Management

The Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) is a well established method to improve manufacturing processes. A typical CIP-workshop, carried out by a group of workers and engineers directly in the production, often causes unwanted downtimes. Furthermore, improvements have to be realized without reliability testing. Virtual Reality (VR) provides a powerful means to support CIP-workshops. This paper introduces the concept of a VR-based CIP-workshop. User interfaces are proposed to integrate additional elements, e.g. findings of augmented reality, into VR. This allows meeting specific demands of different participants involved in a CIP-workshop. The concept is validated based on an industrial use case.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Dirk Ostermayer, Jan Christian Aurich, Christian Wagenknecht. Improvement of Manufacturing Processes with Virtual Reality based CIP-Workshops. International Journal of Production Research, 2009, 47 (19), pp.5297-5309. ⟨10.1080/00207540701816569⟩. ⟨hal-00513019⟩