TY - GEN
T1 - DESIGN OF AN INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL FACTORY USING CELL FORMATION METHODOLOGIES
AU - Kesavadas, T.
AU - Ernzer, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1999 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). All rights reserved.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This paper describes an interactive virtual enviroiunent for modeling and designing factories and shop floors. The factory building tool is developed as an open architecture in which various modules can be utilized to quickly implement factory design algorithms ranging from plant layout to factory flow analysis. Software modules and utilities have been implemented to allow easy set-up of the visual interface. In this paper this virtual factory is used to implement cellular manufacturing (CM) system. CM has traditionally been a very complicated system to implement in practice. However the productivity rise obtained by the successful implementation of the system has been proved to be immense. Several issues involved in implementing CM within our virtual factory machine modeling and interface designs for defining the cells, are discussed. The mathematical clustering algorithm called Modified Boolean Method was implemented to automatically generate complex virtual environments. The virtual factory makes the process of CM-based factory design a very easy and intuitive process. Virtual factory interface also allows easy reassignment of machines and parts, subcontracting of bottleneck parts and rearranging of machines within the same design environment, making this a productive industrial tool.
AB - This paper describes an interactive virtual enviroiunent for modeling and designing factories and shop floors. The factory building tool is developed as an open architecture in which various modules can be utilized to quickly implement factory design algorithms ranging from plant layout to factory flow analysis. Software modules and utilities have been implemented to allow easy set-up of the visual interface. In this paper this virtual factory is used to implement cellular manufacturing (CM) system. CM has traditionally been a very complicated system to implement in practice. However the productivity rise obtained by the successful implementation of the system has been proved to be immense. Several issues involved in implementing CM within our virtual factory machine modeling and interface designs for defining the cells, are discussed. The mathematical clustering algorithm called Modified Boolean Method was implemented to automatically generate complex virtual environments. The virtual factory makes the process of CM-based factory design a very easy and intuitive process. Virtual factory interface also allows easy reassignment of machines and parts, subcontracting of bottleneck parts and rearranging of machines within the same design environment, making this a productive industrial tool.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122753676&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85122753676&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/IMECE1999-0175
DO - 10.1115/IMECE1999-0175
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85122753676
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
SP - 201
EP - 208
BT - Industrial Virtual Reality
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 1999 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 1999
Y2 - 14 November 1999 through 19 November 1999
ER -