A Virtual Factory

نویسندگان

  • Adrian Bowyer
  • Gary Bayliss
  • Richard Taylor
  • Philip J. Willis
چکیده

This paper describes a virtual factory in which almost any manufacturing process can be deened, modelled, and then carried out. The results of this are designs of the components manufactured (in the form of geometric models) and part programs and process plans for their manufacture. Both of these can subsequently be reloaded into the virtual factory and amended and enhanced, or|in the case of the part programs and process plans|can be downloaded into the real factory and used directly for production.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • International Journal of Shape Modeling

دوره 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1996