Virtual Reality for Manufacturing Engineering in the Factories of the Future

2015 ◽  
Vol 789-790 ◽  
pp. 1275-1282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Bougaa ◽  
Stefan Bornhofen ◽  
Hubert Kadima ◽  
Alain Rivière
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Key Technology ◽  
Engineering Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Manufacturing Engineering ◽  
Factory Of The Future ◽  
Factories Of The Future

This paper discusses the possibilities of applying Virtual Reality (VR) technologies to Manufacturing Engineering, and in particular assesses its role in the Factory of the Future (FoF). We review, classify and compare the recommendations given by four major European reports on the challenges that have to be met for a successful deployment of the FoF, and we identify the potential contributions of VR to this vision in terms of new technologies, worker-factory relationship, modular infrastructure and production efficiency. We argue that VR can be a key technology to support the FoF at all levels of the Systems Engineering approach, either directly by applying it in standard engineering processes, or indirectly by leveraging other useful technologies.

Intuitive, digitale Strukturlayoutplanung*/Intuitive digital planning of structure layouts – Overcoming the challenges of disruptive production programs in the automotive industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (09) ◽  
pp. 611-616
Author(s):  
S. F. Schäfer ◽  
U. Bracht
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Know How ◽  
Digital Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Factory Of The Future ◽  
Future Technologies ◽  
The Impact

Zukünftige Antriebstechnologien sowie neue Fabrik- und Logistikkonzepte verändern die Rahmenbedingungen der Automobilproduktion grundlegend. Schon heute muss die Strukturlayoutplanung Innovationen und Unsicherheiten in Form von mehr Varianten, abgestimmt in sehr kurzer Zeit, durch die Einbeziehung von weiteren Know-how-Trägern berücksichtigen. Neue Herausforderungen, wie die Planung der Batteriefertigungen, müssen schnell und intuitiv gelöst werden. Einen Beitrag dafür liefert dieser Artikel.   Future technologies in automotive mobility as well as new factory and logistic concepts are changing the framework in car production. Innovations and uncertainties (e. g. the impact of new technologies) have to be taken in consideration for the factory of the future. New tasks, such as planning the assembly of batteries, need to be solved fast and intuitively. This paper presents an approach to this topic.

The Factory of the Future? The Contradictory Restructuring of an Assembly Line in France

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-136
Author(s):  
Juan Sebastian Carbonell
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Industrie 4.0 ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
Factory Of The Future ◽  
Assembly Operations

This paper studies how the introduction of new technologies and a new organiza-tion of work transforms the labour process at an assembly line of the PSA group in France. The firm presents the new organization as an innovative modernization bringing forward the "Factory of the Future" through concepts directly inspired by Industrie 4.0 and Industrie du futur. At the same time, this modernization also re-sponds to the need for the plant to become more competitive in order to face the consequences of the economic crisis of 2008. Drawing from data obtained through fieldwork (interviews with workers, union representatives and internal documents), the author shows that behind the rhetoric of modernization and industrial excel-lence, the firm intensifies work in assembly operations and workers lose autono-my.

scholarly journals AWARENESS AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (69) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
A. Dmitrieva
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The Future ◽  
Industrial Architecture ◽  
New Type ◽  
Manufacturing Facilities ◽  
Factory Of The Future ◽  
Factories Of The Future ◽  
Production Facilities

The article defines the Factory of the Future as a modern organizational concept of production and as a new type of industrial architecture. The concept of awareness as an important property of the architectural environment of the newest production facilities is disclosed. The main methods of its formation are listed and described. Examples of manufacturing facilities implementing awareness in its architecture are given. The conclusions about the positive impact of the awareness on the functioning of high-tech production facilities and Factories of the Future are made.

scholarly journals Factories of the future: operation and perspectives of development

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00022
Author(s):  
Paul Chang ◽  
Diana Kaledina ◽  
Anatoly Popovich ◽  
Andrey Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Technical Progress ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Technological Equipment ◽  
State Support ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
Factory Of The Future ◽  
Factories Of The Future

The role of automation in industrial development was highlighted. We discussed the significance of automation for creating the factory of the future. We presented the basic criteria of efficiency of automated factories. We analyzed the experience of creating automated factories, indicated the basic scientific-technical problems related to automation of production and suggested the ways to overcome them. We listed the basic factors of scientific-technical progress that should be the basis for automation of production and indicated its basic elements. We showed the role of technological equipment, tools and accessories. We analyzed the results of state support of industry.

scholarly journals A review on potential technological advances for fashion retail

2021 ◽  
pp. 168-186
Author(s):  
Clara E. Fernandes ◽  
Ricardo Morais
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Business Models ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fashion Retail

This technical paper will assess new technological advances that could change the way we buy clothes, exploring existing solutions that are still commonly confused with each other: Smart fitting rooms (SFR), interactive mirrors (IM), Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR). The methodological approach based on an exploratory research will start with a literature review on SFR and IM, comparing the main differences between these two technologies and addressing their unsuccessful attempts in retail. Our research will also assess daily technologies, which could possibly improve the customer’s experience with online shopping, as well as customers with reduced mobility. With smart gadgets in every corner, consumers are more difficult to convince with innovative products. We will propose future possibilities for fashion retail, where results will be presented as a first approach, in hopes of creating innovative solutions for the future. Moreover, sustainable implications related with this approach will be addressed in our additional considerations. This technical study considers only two basic solutions that were eventually too complicated to fit into fashion retail, exploring additional solutions that could change these limitations. Although explored and researched in the last years, solutions like IM and SFR were once part of what was considered the future of fashion retail. However, poor business models and lack of technological advances at the time limited these solutions. New technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed-Reality (MR), combined with the latest smartphone evolution could relaunch solutions like these.  

scholarly journals Modeling and Simulation of Processes in a Factory of the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 4503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrik Grznár ◽  
Milan Gregor ◽  
Martin Krajčovič ◽  
Štefan Mozol ◽  
Marek Schickerle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Manufacturing ◽  
Modelling And Simulation ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Future ◽  
Factory Of The Future ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control ◽  
Behavioural Management ◽  
Factories Of The Future

Current trends in manufacturing, which are based on customisation and gradually customised production, are becoming the main initiator for the development of new manufacturing approaches. New manufacturing approaches are counted as the application of new behavioural management patterns that calculate the retained competencies of decision-making by the individual members of the system agent; the production becomes decentralised. The interaction of the members of such a system creates emergent behaviour, where the result cannot be accurately determined by ordinary methods and simulation must be applied. Modelling and simulation will, therefore, be an integral part of the planning and control of the processes of factories of the future. The purpose of the article is to describe the use of modelling and simulation processes in factories of the future. The first part of the article describes new manufacturing concepts that will be used in factories of the future, with a description of modelling and simulation routing in the frame of Industry 4.0. The next section describes how simulation is used for the control of manufacturing processes in factories of the future. The included subsection describes the implementation of this suggested pattern in the laboratory of ZIMS (Zilina Intelligent Manufacturing System), with an example of a metamodeling application and the results obtained.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-262
Author(s):  
Karen E. Shackleford ◽  
Cynthia Vinney
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The book is wrapped up with an examination of the future of fiction and the future of research on the benefits of engaging with a story. While it’s still in the early stages, research on the positive ways stories can impact people has started to uncover some compelling results. This epilogue reviews studies that indicate that stories can help us cope with the challenges we encounter in our lives, reduce our stress levels, enhance feelings of belonging, and increase well-being. It also discusses the way digital tools can enhance our story experiences and how new technologies like augmented and virtual reality can offer even more immersive story experiences—experiences that might even make us more helpful and altruistic.

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