Virtual manufacturing enterprises (VMEs) are a current, viable, and strategic form of organization for business and other organizations. The perspectives described in this literature review are based upon a basic cluster analysis that identified and classified papers into homogenous subgroups with meaningful themes, or categories. These general themes are related to strategies for business orga...

This paper presents advantages of using virtual reality FMS models and corresponding dynamic simulators for design, analysis, dynamic simulation and visualization of complex flexible manufacturing systems. Developed software has been used for creating a virtual model of the laboratory FMS setup. It is shown how phenomena like operation conflicts and deadlocks can be observed and supervised remo...

This paper presents news problems linked to the increasing use of virtual spaces in the building of new types of manufacturing what is currently called Virtual Manufacturing (VM). VM has many consequences in the activity of industrial companies whatever be size, economic sector or geographical area. Particular attention is paid on virtual spaces, manufacturing and collaboration, skills matrix a...

Augmented and Virtual Reality technologies are increasingly being used in manufacturing processes. These use real and simulated objects to create a simulated environment that can be used to enhance the design and manufacturing processes. Virtual and Augmented Realty Applications in Manufacturing is written by experts from the world's leading institutions working in virtual manufacturing and giv...

Currently, most researchers find out that Virtual Reality (VR)systemsare now a highly implemented inautomotiveindustry especially in design and development process. The automotive industry was amongst applied this technology since VR was developed. In the real manufacturing practice, they need to cater the demand in shortening the production time. Therefore, the VR systems becomea crucial stage...

Much better results in terms of perforniancekost ratio and reliability may be achicvcd if largc machines and structures are replaccd by swarms of smaller ones capablc of co-opcrating on spccificd tasks and negotiating ~ i t h each other what to do next. Armadas of small communication satellites are being dcsigncd to replace largc geostationary units and swarms consisting of hundreds of miniatur...

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...

Virtual factory (VF) can provide a total solution for shortening manufacturing cycle time and achieving customer satisfactions. Hence, many world-class companies dedicate themselves to establish their own virtual factories. However, it is di€ficult to implement a virtual factory because of the lack of assistant tools. A three-tier architecture based colored timed Petri net emulator is developed...

in order to implement the cellular manufacturing system in practice, some essential factors should be taken into account. in this paper, a new mathematical model for cellular manufacturing system considering different production factors including alternative process routings and machine reliability with stochastic arrival and service times in a dynamic environment is proposed. also because of t...