Virtual engineering: An integrated approach to agile manufacturing machinery design and control

Mechatronics

Volumn 13, Issue 10 SPEC., 2003, Pages 1105-1121

  Moore, P R ^a   Pu, J ^a   Ng, H C ^b   Wong, C B ^a   Chong, S K ^a   Chen, X ^a   Adolfsson, J ^b   Olofsgard P ^b   Lundgren, J O ^c  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^c Euromation AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3 D graphical simulation; Distributed control; IEC1131 Part 3; OPC; Virtual engineering; Virtual manufacturing

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MANUFACTURING DATA PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

VIRTUAL MANUFACTURING;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0043011956     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4158(03)00045-X     Document Type: Article

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