Virtual Engineering

As Virtual Engineering (VE ) ( German about Virtual development of technical systems ) refers to the support of development processes by means of digital, three-dimensional models. Focus can be both product development processes, Industrial Engineering and other development processes of technical objects (such as from buildings ) and even services. Virtual engineering methods can be used across industries.

Definitions

Bullinger 2002 Virtual Engineering defined with the help of a five -layer model for data generation, data management, system integration, virtual engineering organization and application access. The data generation, data management and systems integration Bullinger summed together to IT infrastructure, the virtual engineering organization and user access in turn formed the process infrastructure.

Jivka Ovtcharova developed in 2009 Bullinger's definition continues by describing virtual engineering as the early, continuous, cross-linked ( process view ) and integrated ( system view ) support the product development process with respect to coordination, evaluation and specification of the development results of all partners with the help of virtual prototypes.

Moreover, we found that virtual engineering methods not only in product development application, but also in the design of installations and production facilities or in the design and evaluation of services.

Components

Geometry data generation

The geometry data generation is the basis for continuous processing in all subsequent operations. Digital mock-ups (DMU ) can be produced for verification. The DMU serves as a virtual product for laundering and simulation of manufacturing processes, for example by a digital factory. The geometry data generation involves the generation of three dimensional models and related documents in their respective formats. Examples are CAD - data, CAE data, JT data, drawings or plans.

Data Management

The data management refers to the storage, organization, distribution, and access control of the data on suitable infrastructure. There is thus an element of knowledge management, which change, configuration and work processes includes. Suitable infrastructure for data management for example, offer PLM, EDM or PDM systems.

System Integration

System integration is a prerequisite for the virtual engineering. Exchange of data between applications and between companies must be able to allow a possibly high division of labor, distributed development.

Virtual engineering organization

The Virtual engineering organization aims to coordinate development processes corresponding to each other. These are often characterized in that they require communication-intensive coordination processes that have distributed process knowledge, consistency with the progress of the project vary, frameworks and influences are incomplete and variable, project and include litigation risks and have qualitatively and quantitatively limited resources. This makes it necessary to support the process and project documentation throughout to support the clarification of the objectives methodically and information technology, to process incomplete and inconsistent process and project information, to combine the results-oriented process planning with a phase-oriented, all process and project- relevant information up to date to maintain and to integrate informal processes and promote.

Application Access

The application requires access accessibility of process and project data. The access must be able to be carried out either distributed to support, for example, spatially distributed work teams. At the same time the transfer of information must be simple and intuitive to be designed to ensure the involvement of all relevant persons. 3D visualization and virtual reality technologies are applied.

Objectives

Objectives of virtual engineering are there,

  • To enable rapid development cycles as the active process item
  • Early result feedback to enable,
  • To emphasize the early phases of development,
  • To develop alternative product concepts, as well as the
  • Decision and to support the specification of the product.

Organizations

  • The Virtual Dimension Center is a competence network and a cluster initiative in the field of virtual engineering.
  • The Cooperative State University Baden -Württemberg Mosbach offers a degree program Virtual Engineering.
  • The Otto -von- Guericke- University Magdeburg offers a master's degree digital engineering.
  • The college campus Tuttlingen Furtwangen University offers the degree program Industrial Virtual Engineering with lectures in the field of simulation and engineering mathematics.
  • The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering and developed in its Competence Center Virtual Environments ( CCVE ) VE technologies in product and service development.
  • The Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation and developed in its Virtual Development and Training Centre ( VDTC ) VE technologies in system planning.
  • Explored Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and developed in its Lifecycle Engineering Solutions Center ( LESC ) VE technologies in product development.
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