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| Author(s): |
Mariella Consoni Florenzano Souza
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2005-06-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Arthur José Vieira Porto;
Dario Henrique Alliprandini;
Daniel Capaldo Amaral;
Jonas de Carvalho;
Jandira Guenka Palma
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| Advisor: | Arthur José Vieira Porto |
| Abstract | |
Virtual manufacturing represents the emerging approach the enterprises can use to improve their processes, introducing new products more quickly in the market in a cost effective way. The fundamental idea is to create an integrated and synthetic environment, composed of software tools and systems such as virtual reality and simulation to support those processes. The purpose of this work is to analyze the utilization of virtual manufacturing in the product development process regarding current limitations that can be overcome by virtual manufacturing, its proposal, benefits and challenges for its application. For the analysis accomplishment, a product development model in virtual manufacturing environment was developed which considers: the product development activities that can be supported by virtual manufacturing systems; the system types and their functionalities; and neutral formats alternatives to enable data interoperability. The research was done by the accomplishment of case studies that provided information to the impact analysis and to the model development. (AU) | |