Objective Objectives and content Current industrial practice in automotive, aerospace and other manufacturing industries involves the creation of physical product models (physical mock-ups) as a help to designers, manufacturing planners, etc/ The objective of the(se) project(s) is to depart from this practice and develop the technology that allows designers manufacturing planners and even the management to work on Virtual Products /Digital Mock-Up's (DMU). They can make decisions related to the concept, design and all downstream processes. This technology will allow companies to work in a concurrent engineering environment independent of their size and product configuration. To achieve this goal a cluster of projects including modelling, simulation, visualisation, etc. (see figure) is proposed. Within this cluster of projects the objectives of the DMU-ES project is to develop the technology which allows the designer to perform Ergonomic simulation in DMU environment for Product Conception And Downstream Process i.e.: - to describe the bio-mechanical model to perform all the specified applications. - to specify and develop AIT European ergonomic databases. - to describe the interaction of humans with the product (driver / pilot ergonomics) and in the manufacturing and maintenance process, simulating industrial workers e.g. on the assembly line or shop-floor support environment. - to integrate them in the DMU in order to simulate the human behaviour with the product - to introduce regulation simulations and validations through the dummy - to specify and develop a link with virtual reality applications in order to get the "touch and feel" impression in subjective simulations - to define preferred processus taking advantages of DMU technologies. The benefits of this technology will include substantial reduction of development time (at least 10%) and manufacturing cost, dramatical increase of product launch quality such as reduction of Physical Mock-up's. It is expected that the process simulation technology will benefit not only automotive and aerospace industry but other industrial manufacturing sectors such as house appliances, machine building industry ship building etc. The composition of this consortium includes end users, technology vendors and universities and guarantees this successful performance of the project. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual realitysocial sciencespsychologyergonomicsengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringnaval engineeringsea vessels Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0101 - Incorporation of new technologies into production systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Mercedes-Benz AG Address 136,mercedesstrasse 136 70322 Stuttgart 60 Germany See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 130,pet1/2lring 130 80788 M1/2nchen See on map Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus GmbH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 21111 Hamburg See on map Dassault Systèmes SA France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 9,quai marcel dassault 9 92156 Suresnes See on map GIE PSA Peugeot Citroën France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Etablissement de belchamp 25420 Voujeaucourt See on map Goodwin Marcus Systems Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address CW10 9AE Middlewich See on map REGIENOV GROUPEMENT D INTERET ECONOMIQUE* France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 9-11,quai alphonse le gallo 13 92100 Boulogne-billancourt See on map TECMATH A.G. Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 2,sauerwiesen 2 67661 Kaiserslautern See on map Technische Universität München Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 16,barbarastrasse 80797 München See on map Université de Paris V 'René Descartes' France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 45,rue des saints-pères 75270 Paris See on map