Productivity VR Engineering - Productivity Virtual Reality Engineering

Productivity Engineering: Redesigning engineering products and processes using engineering knowledge relevant to improving the productivity. Productivity science provide input to carry out productivity engineering. It means productivity science provides the opportunity to invent and patent new product features and process components that will improve productivity.

Productivity VR Engineering is an area of Productivity Engineering

Productivity VR Engineering: Redesigning products and processes using VR to improve productivity.

Productivity is doing things with less resources. Productivity is doing things at lower costs. If cost of training can be reduced using VR based training, engineering training can be done at lower cost and it is productivity improvement.

Virtual prototyping is an example of using virtual reality in practice for a purpose.

Virtual Reality Prototyping Can Save you Thousands of Dollars

Virtual Reality Prototyping: 50k in Savings

Today, we use VR technology as the newest design review and testing tool. We call it Virtual Reality Prototyping. The results so far have been hugely positive.

A recent project at SGW Designworks focused on the development of a large, complex system used in the air cargo industry. Even today, prototyping  is costly for a physically large product. For the first two design iterations, we used Virtual Reality Prototypes in lieu of physical prototypes. In reviewing and “testing” the virtual prototypes using the HTC Vive, we identified design changes in both iterations that we normally would have needed physical prototypes to find. Saving two physical prototype cycles, in this case, saved the client about $50k costs, as well as eliminating the lead time for custom assemblies that were too large for 3D printing.

In the past month, we have used Virtual Prototypes on three client projects, and each has saved significant hard cost as well as development time. The fact that we can validate or invalidate design decisions faster and for less money means that VR is reducing development risk for our clients.

https://sgwdesignworks.com/virtual-reality-prototyping/

More Examples

Fisker Automotive used virtual prototyping to design the rear structure and other areas of its Karma plug-in hybrid to ensure the integrity of the fuel tank in a rear end crash as required for Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) 301 certification.

Agilent Technologies used virtual prototyping to design cooling systems for the calibration head for a new high-speed oscilloscope.

Miele used virtual prototyping to improve the development of its washer-disinfector machines by simulating their operational characteristics early in the design cycle.

Several CAE software solutions (for example, Working Model and SimWise) offer the possibility to check the benefits of virtual prototyping even for students and small companies, and collection of case studies are available since 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_prototyping

Virtual Reality Prototyping: Minimize product prototyping-related costs by 40-65%.

Virtual Reality Prototyping: The Essence

Virtual Reality software for prototyping is used to enhance the immersion during prototype testing, reduce the number of product design iterations, and minimize product prototyping-related costs by 40-65%.

Market for Virtual Reality Prototyping

The market of virtual reality (VR) for prototyping, estimated $210.4 million in 2017, is expected to grow at a CAGR of 19.4% by 2025. With 96% of enterprises, which already leverage VR, stating that they use the technology for prototyping, it is one of the key VR use segments.

https://www.scnsoft.com/virtual-reality/prototyping


The motivation for making this  post first time on  19 September 2017 came from a post in the Linked community of IISE having the link to the article.

https://www.ennomotive.com/10-industries-virtual-reality/

Evolution of Virtual Reality

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/11/09/the-evolution-of-virtual-reality-exploring-the-past-present-and-future/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDcJTl-qFbE

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PIXO VR Multi-user Virtual Reality Training Demonstration (Extended)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APYz8n2H9RY

This is live recorded video of five PIXO VR team members, working together in one VR Training environment. With PIXO VR's Multi-user Functionality, up to dozens of trainees or users can communicate, interact, and collaborate in the same virtual environment from multiple global endpoints — anywhere, anytime.

Motor Maintenance Training using VR

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq2RSlslQcU

Mechatraining LLC

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One more sub-area of productivity engineering is identified today.

Productivity Software Engineering
Redesigning products or processes by including software solutions, or developing software solutions to improve productivity in any activity or process
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.in/2017/09/productivity-software-engineering.html

Ud 17.9.2024, 17.9.2022,  17.9.2021

Pub 19.9.2017