Virtual engineering

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As Virtual Engineering ( VE ) ( German  about Virtual development of technical systems ) refers to the support of development processes using digital, three-dimensional models. The focus can be on product development processes , industrial engineering and other development processes of technical objects (such as buildings ) and even services . Virtual engineering methods can be used across industries.

Definitions

Bullinger defined virtual engineering in 2002 with the help of a 5-layer model consisting of data generation, data management , system integration, virtual engineering organization and application access . Bullinger combined data generation, data management and system integration into the IT infrastructure, while the virtual engineering organization and user access formed the process infrastructure.

Jivka Ovtcharova developed Bullinger's definition further in 2009 by describing virtual engineering as the early, continuous, networked (process view) and integrated (system view) support of the product development process with regard to coordination, evaluation and concretization of the development results of all partners with the help of virtual prototypes.

In addition, it was shown that virtual engineering methods are not only used in product development, but also in the planning of systems and production facilities or in the design and evaluation of services.

Components

Geometry data generation

The generation of geometry data is the basis for continuous further processing in all subsequent operations. Digital mock-ups (DMU) are generated for verification. The DMU serves as a virtual product for channeling and simulating, for example, production processes through a digital factory . The generation of geometry data includes the generation of the three-dimensional models and associated documents in their respective formats. Examples are CAD data, CAE data, JT data, drawings or plans.

Data management

Data management refers to the storage, organization, distribution and access control of the data via a suitable infrastructure. It is therefore an element of knowledge management that includes changes, configurations and work processes. PLM , EDM or PDM systems , for example, offer a suitable infrastructure for data management .

System integration

System integration is a prerequisite for virtual engineering. It must be possible to exchange data between applications and between companies in order to enable distributed development that may involve a high degree of division of labor.

Virtual engineering organization

The aim of the virtual engineering organization is to coordinate corresponding development processes. These are often characterized by the fact that they require coordination processes that are intensive in communication, have distributed process knowledge, target specifications vary with project progress, framework specifications and influencing variables are incomplete and changeable, contain project and process risks and have qualitatively and quantitatively limited resources. This makes it necessary to consistently support process and project documentation, to support the clarification of the objectives methodically and in terms of information technology, to be able to process incomplete and inconsistent process and project information, to combine the result-oriented process planning with a phase-oriented one, to keep all process and project-relevant information up-to-date and to integrate and promote informal processes.

Application access

The application access requires the accessibility of process and project data. Access must be distributed, for example, to support teams that are spatially distributed. At the same time, the information transfer must be simple and intuitive to ensure that all relevant people are involved. 3D visualization and virtual reality are technologies to be used.

aims

The objectives of virtual engineering are

  • enable fast development cycles as an active process element,
  • enable early feedback on results,
  • emphasize early stages of development,
  • to develop alternative product concepts, as well as the
  • Decide on and support the specification of the product.

Organizations

See also

Individual evidence

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