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Virtual manufacturing as a way for the factory of the future

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Virtual Manufacturing represents the emerging approach the enterprises can use to improve their processes, introducing new products more quickly in the market in a cost effective way. The fundamental idea is to create an integrated and synthetic environment, composed of software tools and systems such as Virtual Reality and Simulation to support such processes. This paper presents the Virtual Manufacturing (VM) environment, highlighting the potential application areas and the resulting benefits. The role of Simulation Lab and ITIA-CNR in applying the VM is discussed, the research activities currently carried out by the institutes are presented and two significant cases developed as example of the applicability of the concept are shown.

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  1. Laboratório de Simulação, IFM, Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos-USP, Av. do Trabalhador São-Carlense 400, 13566-590, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Mariella Consoni Florenzano Souza & Arthur José Vieira Porto

  2. Istituto di Tecnologie Industriali e Automazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Bassini 15, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Marco Sacco

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Received: February 2005/Accepted: January 2006

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Souza, M.C.F., Sacco, M. & Porto, A.J.V. Virtual manufacturing as a way for the factory of the future. J Intell Manuf 17, 725–735 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-006-0041-1

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