No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

This paper discusses PANDYA, which is a virtual prototyping test bed for electronics assembly. With the help of virtual reality based environments, product and process design issues can be studied.PANDYA facilitates identification of problems by enabling ideas to be proposed, studied, modified and validated. Such an approach reduces the overall product development time, reduces overall cost and improves communication among product development team members.

This paper presents a framework for supporting virtual prototyping related activities in the domain of printed circuit board (PCB) assembly. The focus of discussion is restricted to Surface Mount Technology (SMT) based processes only. In general, Virtual Prototyping enables the conceptualization, evaluation and validation of proposed ideas, plans and solutions. Using a virtual prototyping framework, cross functional evaluation and analysis can be facilitated where designers, manufacturing engineers, testing and other life-cycle team members can communicate effectively as well as identify and eliminate problems, which may arise later in the downstream manufacturing and testing activities.