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Publication summary
Author(s): Rangan Krishnamurthy, Charles McLean and J.P. Shewchuk
Publication date: May 1998
Citation: Rangan Krishnamurthy, Charles McLean and J.P. Shewchuk: "A Hybrid Manufacturing System Modeling Environment Using VRML," NISTIR Reprints, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1998.
Key words: Manufacturing Systems Modeling, VRML, Multi-dimensional Models, Virtual Reality
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Abstract:
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Manufacturing systems are complex entities, comprised of people, processes, products,
information systems and data, material processing, handling, and storage systems.
Because of this complexity, systems must be modeled using a variety of views and
modeling formalisms. In order to design and properly integrate system functions, the
multiple views and models must often be considered simultaneously. However, no
single tool or computing environment currently exists that allows this to be done
in an efficient and intelligible manner. Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
provides a variety of features that make it attractive for use in developing
such environments. This paper describes how a team at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University (VPI) and the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) is using VRML as a Hybrid manufacturing-modeling
environment. Different manufacturing scenarios that are being investigated
with the environment and future research directions are also discussed.
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