Virtual Manufacturing – Navigation System

Abstract

The constantly increasing complexity of products, and their manufacturing processes, and minimal resources are reasons to control and manage the manufacturing effectively. Manufacturing simulation and digital engineering tools and procedures have a positive impact on the manufacturing industry. Here materials, energy and unneeded processes can be spared, especially in the construction of production plant and manufacturing lines. This paper presents and describes a Navigator System, which controlls and manages the virtual manufacturing processes effective and thoughtful to avoid the errors that occur in the real production. The Navigator System can be described as composite system from integrated external applications (software). Inside the Navigator System the virtual manufacturing processes of products is running by the external application. As a result is to be expected, The digital representation of a product and its digital manufacturing system, in which the digital product is created, it is the result of this research.