Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1698604 | Procedia CIRP | 2016 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Nowadays, buildings or production facilities are designed using specialized design software and building information modeling tools help to evaluate the resulting virtual mock-up. However, with current, primarily desktop based tools it is hard to evaluate human factors of such a design, for instance spatial constraints for workforces. This paper presents a new tool for factory planning and evaluation based on virtual reality that allows designers, planning experts, and workforces to walk naturally and freely within a virtual factory. Therefore, designs can be checked as if they were real before anything is built.
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Authors
Andreas Kunz, Markus Zank, Morten Fjeld, Thomas Nescher,