Virtual Prototyping : first practice of a European research group

Lionel Roucoules (1) , Marten Toxopeus (2) , Fabrice Mathieux (3) , Tatiana Reyes (4) , Ion Grozav (5) , Guillaume Thomann (6) , Philippe René Marin (6) , Paolo Moriggi (7) , Paolo Cobianchi (7)

1 LSIS - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes
2 University of Twente
3 G-SCOP_CPP - Conception Produit Process
4 CREIDD - Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Interdisciplinaires sur le Développement Durable
5 UPT - Universității Politehnica Timișoara [România] = Polytechnic University of Timişoara [Romania] = Université polytechnique de Timișoara [Roumanie]
6 G-SCOP_CC - Conception collaborative
7 POLIMI - Politecnico di Milano [Milan]

The EMIRAcle association has been created as a European association in order to refer as a pool of European experts with respect to design and manufacturing scientific research. A group of EMIRAcle partners have been working on "Virtual Prototyping (VP)" competencies. The long terms main objectives were:

• To set a common understanding concerning virtual prototyping
• To gather competencies in Virtual Prototyping including maturityregarding new concepts and software demonstrators
• To provide to academics or industries methods, models and software tosupport Virtual Prototyping

The paper aims at presenting first results of that research group concerning the creation of a VP knowledge map (second objective). Those results are based on a design case study led by several partners of the EMIRAcle association.

Mots clés: CAPP; DFX; User-centric design; Life Cycle Analysis; Collaborative virtual prototyping

Domaines: Génie des procédés

Lionel Roucoules, Marten Toxopeus, Fabrice Mathieux, Tatiana Reyes, Ion Grozav, et al.. Virtual Prototyping : first practice of a European research group. Product Lifecycle Management PLM'09 Supporting the extended enterprise, Jul 2009, Bath, United Kingdom. pp.232-242. ⟨hal-00934910⟩