Numéro Mécanique & Industries Volume 5, Numéro 2, Mars-Avril 2004 VIRTUAL CONCEPT 2002 Page(s) 199 - 205 DOI 10.1051/meca:2004021

Mécanique & Industries 5, 199-205 (2004)
DOI: 10.1051/meca:2004021

Virtual Process Engineering - An approach to integrate VR, FEM, and simulation tools in the manufacturing chain

Fritz Klocke and Andreas M. Straube

Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT, Department Process Technology, Steinbachstrasse 17, 52074 Aachen, Germany
(Received 30 June 2003, Accepted 20 October 2003 )

Abstract - Today's businesses continually search for ways to increase productivity. To achieve this goal, shorter product development cycles and shorter manufacturing times are required. In both cases, problems that may arise during development must be identified much faster. In product development, this is done using virtual prototypes that can be easily duplicated and shared between everyone involved. In addition to this product design process, the stability of the manufacturing process and the resulting product quality ultimately determine the product's profitability. Therefore the manufacturing concepts of a new product can best be demonstrated using Virtual Manufacturing. The subset of Virtual Manufacturing where material properties of the product and machine tools and the physics of the process are investigated is called Virtual Process Engineering. Virtual Process Engineering utilizes Finite Element Methods (FEM) and simulations for the computation of the manufacturing process and Virtual Reality (VR) for quick and intuitive examination of the computation results.

Key words: FEM simulation / manufacturing chain / Virtual Reality / interfaces / Virtual Process Engineering

Corresponding author: andreas.straube@ipt.fraunhofer.de

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