Chapter 5: Collaborative Environments

Title: Virtual prototyping: first practice of a European research group

Author(s): Lionel Roucoules, Marten Toxopeus, Fabrice Mathieux, Tatiana Reyes, Ion Grozav, Guillaume Thomann, Philippe Marin, Paolo Moriggi, Paolo Cobianchi

Address: Arts et Metiers ParisTech – CER Aix en Provence 2, cours des arts et Metiers – 13617, Aix en Provence, France | University of Twente – Enschede, The Netherlands | Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France | Universite de Technologie de Troyes, France | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania | Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France | Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France | Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2009 pp. 232 - 242

Abstract/Summary: The EMIRAcle association has been created as a European association in order to refer as a pool of European experts with respect to design and manufacturing scientific research. A group of EMIRAcle partners have been working on 'virtual prototyping (VP)' competencies. The long terms main objectives were: * to set a common understanding concerning virtual prototyping * to gather competencies in virtual prototyping including maturity regarding new concepts and software demonstrators * to provide to academics or industries methods, models and software to support virtual prototyping. The paper aims at presenting first results of that research group concerning the creation of a VP knowledge map (second objective). Those results are based on a design case study led by several partners of the EMIRAcle association.

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