Virtual Manufacturing Background Project

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• Name(s): Martin Hardwick, David L. Spooner
• Contact Information:

  Information Integration for Simulation Based Design and Manufacturing
  
  Martin Hardwick    (hardwick@rdrc.rpi.edu)
  David L. Spooner   (spoonerd@cs.rpi.edu)
  
  Laboratory for Industrial Information Infrastructure
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Troy, New York 12180
  

• Information related to Virtual Manufacturing

  Abstract:
  
  This project is investigating how the information highway can be used 
  by engineering organizations that wish to collaborate on design and 
  manufacturing problems.
  
  The project is conducting an experiment that uses the information highway 
  to support simulations of mechanical systems for multidisciplinary design 
  perspectives. The research to accomplish this task is seeking to advance 
  the state of the art in integration of engineering systems in wide area 
  networks such as the Internet. In addition, the research is seeking to 
  advance the states of the art in neutral database design for the integration 
  of engineering systems, and distributed control systems for the processing of
  engineering changes.
  
  The project is building a next generation environment for engineering 
  collaboration using the PDES/STEP standard for engineering data exchange, 
  the OMG CORBA standard for object service modeling, and Mosaic/HTML for 
  data presentation. In the first year, the environment will be tested
  using a product model of the Hummer Vehicle. Product models of components 
  of the Hummer's suspension assembly will be re-built using different CAD
  packages at the University of Iowa and RPI.  The suspension will be 
  assembled over the Internet using PDES/STEP and simulated using Iowa's
  simulation based design environment.
  
  This work is being performed by the Laboratory of Industrial Information 
  Infrastructure of the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in 
  Robotics, Automation and Manufacturing, in collaboration with the 
  University of Iowa, Caterpillar Inc. and PDES, Inc.
  
  
  References:
  
  M. Hardwick, B. Downie, M. Kutcher and D. Spooner, "Using Delta Files to 
  Implement Concurrent Engineering: Results of an Experiment," IEEE Computer 
  Graphics and Applications, editor P. Wilson, IEEE Computer Society Press, 
  January 1995. 
  
  M. Hardwick, D. Spooner, B. Downie, M. Ferris, Z. Jiang,and T. DeWeese, 
  "A STEP Entity Control System for Concurrent Engineering," Proceedings of 
  the First International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research 
  and Applications, Pittsburgh, PA., August 1994. 
  
  
  
  URLs: 
  	http://www.rdrc.rpi.edu
  	http://www.rdrc.rpi.edu/iita/status950125.html
  

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