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 objective of the DMU-PS project is to develop the technology which allows the designer to model and simulate assembly, disassembly, service and maintenance processes while he is designing products and subassemblies. The benefits of this technology will include substantial reduction of development time (at least 10%) and manufacturing cost, such as reduction of Physical Mock-up's, and a dramatical increase of product launch quality. 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 the successful performance of the project. Fields of science engineering 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) 0202 - New methodologies for product design and manufacture Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Volkswagen AG EU contribution No data Address 2,Berliner Ring 2 38436 Wolfsburg Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG Germany EU contribution No data Address 146,Knorrstrasse 80788 München See on map Total cost No data British Aerospace Defence Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Warton Aerodrome Warton PR4 1AX Preston See on map Total cost No data Dassault Systèmes SA France EU contribution No data Address 9,Quai Marcel Dassault 9 92156 Suresnes See on map Total cost No data Fiat Auto Mains Srl Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Caraglioro 84 10141 Torino See on map Total cost No data GIE Renault Recherche et Innovation France EU contribution No data Address 67,Rue des Bons Raisins 67 92508 Rueil-Malmaison See on map Total cost No data Mercedes-Benz AG Germany EU contribution No data Address 1,Tilsiter Strasse 71059 Sindelfingen See on map Total cost No data Technische Universität München Germany EU contribution No data Address 39,Karl-Hammerschmidt-Strasse 85609 München See on map Total cost No data Tecnomatix SARL France EU contribution No data Address 5,Voie de la Cardon 91126 Palaiseau See on map Total cost No data Tecoplan Informatik GmbH Germany EU contribution No data Address 40,Otto Hahn Strasse 85521 Ottobrunn See on map Total cost No data University of Patras Greece EU contribution No data Address Rio Patras 26110 PATRAS See on map Total cost No data
