A variant approach to constructing and managing virtual manufacturing environments

摘要

Virtual reality technology holds great potentials in computerized manufacturing applications.Technical problems however have to be resolved before it can be employed in practicalmanufacturing. This paper reports the research into one of those problems - the pain-taking andtedious process of creating and managing virtual manufacturing environments. First the paperpresents an efficient approach to constructing virtual manufacturing environments. Then it proposesa system for managing the environments and describes in details the methods and techniques forbuilding the system. In the end the paper discusses the applications of the approach and shows anexample of using the system in constructing virtual manufacturing environments for planningmanufacturing operations.