Virtual Manufacturing concepts reducing the Flow Time in Aircraft Manufacturing

Abstract

The high cost and long lead times of traditional manufacturing makes it difficult for manufactures to efficiently meet eternally changing market demands. In order to determine the manufacturability of the component and low cost production of aircraft manufacturing, Digital Virtual Manufacturing plays a vital role. By the advancement in technologies like Virtual Manufacturing tools used through Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), are competent to access and reuse the best practices, as well as evaluate 3-D manufacturing scenarios. By implementing advance 3-D CAD systems with the CNC machines enables the success of the determinate assembly approach to significantly reduce the lead time aircraft manufacturing. This paper encompasses the virtual manufacturing concept to enable complex manufacturing set-up analysis, exchanging expertise at collaborative work. Virtual Manufacturing is using the manufacturing knowledge at PLM environment for defining the assembly process of an aircraft parts.

Improving manufacturing Efficiency in the industry 4.0 era: empirical evidence from the manufacturing companies

“…While Tang (2014) addressed the effect of the virtual forum and virtual team on the creativity of manufacturing personnel. Jha (2016) explained the importance of virtual manufacturing in product life cycle management (PLM) as a business approach to accommodating people, processes, business, and information systems for managing the entire product life cycle across organizations. While Talekar et al (2017)dealt with critical reviews and applications of VR and provided information about its applications.…”

“…Prior research (e.g., (Jha, 2016, Frank et al, 2019, Peruzzini et al, 2021, Wen et al, 2022 showed that VM can be defined as an integrated industrial environment that is practiced to improve all levels of decision and control. This technology can provide a better integration among designers and customers' requirements, allowing the interaction and immersion of the user in the virtual world based on graphical 3D images created in realtime by the computer (Peruzzini et al, 2021).…”

“…Although there is a large repository of literature available on the VM, some questions remain unanswered. Although prior studies (e.g., (Jha, 2016, de Sousa Jabbour et al, 2018, Bougaa et al, 2015, Demartini et al, 2017, Wen et al, 2022 have examined the impact of VM in many fields, they did not examine the impact of VM on the cost reduction of production activities and mitigate the EHS risks of these activities which supports sustainable business in industry 4.0. Therefore, to address this research gap in the management accounting literature, this study aims to examine the role of VM in improving processes in industrial companies.…”