Environments Promoting Virtualization of Product Development*

Abstract

Virtualisation of Product Development may be interpreted in two ways: The virtualisation of the “Factory” or the virtualisation of the product development process. In order to virtualise product development, general development environments should be developed. In this talk, I will present some contributions to such environments: TrollCreek – a Case Based Reasoning (CBR) environment for utilization of knowledge and experience. XPLANO a Rule Based system for Automatic Process Planning. TrollEye – an Automatic Visual Inspection (AVI) environment using Machine Vision.