How integration of VR and visualizations fosters factory planning?
Introduction:
The factory planning process is the prophetic layout of factories. It involves the setting of motives, structuring, measurement, determination of processes, investigation, and integration. Design of factories as a system includes their subsystems, substructure, characteristics, and processes. It consists of planning and dimensioning of industrial production facilities and monitoring of culmination until the product is started.
What is VR visualization?
Virtual Reality (VR) is the virtual world setting which is 75%, virtual and 25%, real. It invents a virtual world for users to interact with. This technology connects the digital and real world. It gives the virtual images directly to the user’s eyes with the use of headsets. VR has been an incredible support to various sectors.
Based on the VR software's, the visualization in a single immersive system will be expanded to an outlet that will comprise two or more related immersive systems. This provides access to the users in different areas to cooperate, explore, and evaluate within the same virtual model in real-time. A VR system is introduced to accomplish the alliance. It handles the interaction and cooperation of users, networks, and data transmission, as well as consistency and priority control of processes.
How does the integration of VR and visualization tools foster the factory planning process?
Virtual Reality and visualization have been gaining hands to promote various chores in the factory planning process. The challenge lies in the exchange of knowledge between skilled groups, eager with planning tasks to make planners aware of interdependencies. So, the VR and visualization-based planning tool for planning tasks present an integration concept that facilitates information exchange.
The goal of this application is to promote layout planning using the CAVE system. This system enables users to judge spatial relations in the whole factories through a cost-effective virtual system. Various types of information can be visualized within the virtual setting to assist planners to evaluate factories’ layouts.
The meta-model application focuses on individual machines to help planners find ideal compositions by delivering the visualization solution to explore the multidimensional parameters space of a single machine.
These applications can be integrated into one comprehensive planning tool that allows for planning factories while considering factors of different planning levels at the same time. It is supported by Virtual Production Intelligence (VPI) which integrates data from various levels of factory processes while adding more data sources and algorithms to deliver additional information to be used by the application.
Why is VR and Visualization important in factory planning processes?
- This technology has a higher sense of situational awareness, a wider field of view, higher scale perception, and a sense of immersion.
- It has the advantage of lower cost, shorter development time, and better implementation conditions.
- It allows more people to be involved in the planning process that leads to quicker and better results.
- It facilitates the production engineers and decision-makers to operate tasks in the virtual environment.
- It is accessible to analyze and adapt the factory layout, workplace design, and materials flow in a virtual factory.
- To enhance the planning process during the production design or layout.
- Quick and easy data storage.
Conclusion:
Virtual Reality and visualization-based software tools facilitate the communication of interdependence between two different factory planning tasks. It creates a comprehensive factory planning solution. It focuses on providing information and data through visualization with the use of VR technology. This helps in evaluating factory layout by assisting the planner in a correct manner.
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