Virtual product development

Abstract or Introduction

In the present work, virtual product development and applications in part manufacturing processes will be described. The main objective is to understand and emulate the behaviour and error effects of a particular manufacturing system on a computer environment.

Virtual manufacturing systems are applying computers and different types of software in manufacturing and production in order to simulate and model errors of a real environment in virtual reality systems. The objective of simulating manufacturing technologies in virtual reality systems is to design a completely digital factory. The part is modelled and produced in a computer simulation environment with predicted errors in order to achieve the best accuracy in the produced part by choosing optimized process parameters.

This paper will present an advanced virtual manufacturing system in order to increase quality as well as efficiency of part production. It will be argued that virtual simulation provides a strong tool for producing and analysing parts in digital environments in order to decrease cost and time of accurate production.