Virtual Manufacturing Background Project

Relevant Research Areas

Cross-Functional Trades

The essence is multi-discipline optimization applied to large grain (specifically Life Cycle Cost disciplines) problems. These trades will be general across organizations at a high level, but will be organization specific at a lower level as with factory floor operations, etc. This has big technology transfer impacts. Many people had a hard time dealing with the specific labels of the underpinnings, however, they were adamant that it described what was really needed (e.g. requirement). Figure 3-1 in the final report of the user's workshop (presented here as Figure 3-1) provides the context of this issue.

If any of your work is relevant to this area, then this is an invitation to send us, virtual@frabjous.cs.umd.edu , information about it, for possible inclusion on the Web site and in the report.


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