Industry case studies in the use of immersive virtual assembly

Virtual Reality

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 217-228

  Jayaram, Sankar ^a   Jayaram, Uma ^a   Kim, Young Jun ^a   DeChenne, Charles ^a   Lyons, Kevin W ^b   Palmer, Craig ^c   Mitsui, Tatsuki ^d  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Paccar   (United States)

^d KOMATSU LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Industry case study; VADE; Virtual assembly

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PROCESS PLANNING;

ASSEMBLY INSTALLATION; MANUFACTURING CYCLE; VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34848918161     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-007-0070-x     Document Type: Article

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