Augmented Reality (AR) applications are beginning to see rapid adaptation in the manufacturing sector. AR systems industry can assist operators simple tasks, such as virtual instructions, well complex remote assistance and maintenance tasks. There many ways interact with content, commonly known interaction modalities. These modalities classified into three categories: touch, touchless, wearable...

This paper describes how a link between Virtual Reality and Rapid Prototyping was established at Clemson to enhance the designer’s understanding of manufacturing issues. It concentrates on the topic of support structures for rapid prototyping processes. The paper presents a survey of the litera ture in the area of Virtual Reality and discusses some of the issues of translating an STL model into...

Given the growing evolution of technology, machinery and manufacturing techniques, conventional methodologies for training the workforce are not enough for the current needs. Therefore methodologies capable to accelerate the training process and able to train the trainee in a wide range of scenarios are claimed for the industrial sector. Virtual reality offers an alternative that has been succe...

The planning of Manufacturing Systems involves frequently the resolution of a huge amount and variety of combinatorial optimization problems with a important impact on the performance of manufacturing organizations. The proposed approach is in line with reality and away from the approaches that deal with static and classic or basic Job-Shop scheduling problems. In fact, in real world, where pro...

Virtual reality (VR) refers to an immersive, interactive, multi-sensory, viewer-centered, three-dimensional (3D) computer generated environment and the combination of technologies required to build such an environment (Cruz-Neira, 1993). Related to problems of engineering design and manufacturing, this new technology offers engineers the ability to work with computer models in a three-dimension...