From: Toni Emerson <"temerson"@hitl.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: APPS: VR for plant design
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:48:23 -0700
Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab


Jiandong Liang wrote:
> 
> I am contemplating the possible use of VR technology
> for plant design (such as an oil refinery plant). Does
> anyone have references or pointers to related materials?

Take a look at:

Wilson, J.R., D'Cruz, M., Cobb, S. and Eastgate, R. (1996).  Virtual
Reality for Industrial Applications: Opportunities and Limitations.

Chapter 5, Cases of VR Industrial Applications describes a case study
of the Rover Group Powertrain that uses VR for the visualization of
new product/process layouts.

The authors of the book are members of the Virtual Reality Applicatons
Research Team (VIRART).  VIRART projects include the Virtual Control
Room and Factory Planning and Layout:

http://quoll.maneng.nott.ac.uk/Research/virart/industry/index.html


See also, 

Kreitler, M., Heim, J. and Smith, R. (1995). Virtual Environments for
Design and Analysis of Production Facilities. In Proceedings of IFIP
WG 5.7 Working Conference on Managing Concurrent Manufacturing to
Improve Industrial Performance.
 
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jheim/VirtualManufacturing/vrPaperIFIPS.html


Wolfgang Schoels' Virtual Manufacturing Page:

http://www.faps.uni-erlangen.de:1200/persons/schloegl/vm.html

On the Net's VR: Manufacturing Applications Page:

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/manapps.html

Fraunhofer Institute - IPA, Virtual Prototyping:

ftp://ftp.ipa.fhg.de/pub/VIRTUAL-REALITY/WWW/virpro.html


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