Virtual Factory and Logistics Integration &
Optimisation for Electronics Assembly Industry

This is a collaboration project with A*STAR,
SIMTech and two industrial partners. It aims
to visualise and simulate the production
processes in a manufacturing plant.

Since simulations of manufacturing and
assembly processes are extremely complex,
conventional analysis methods like statistics,
make simulation results difficult to understand
and cause important details to be overlooked.

Strengths
The visualisation of simulation data in
animated 3D scenes shows these events
within their relevant contexts, and is able to
preserve and enhance information detail.

The visualised simulation model makes
verification and validation easy, and allows
simulation results simply understood even
by non-technical decision makers.

Methods
The virtual factory system has an analyser
and translation tool which animates the
simulation events.

This allows the dynamic scenes to be
watched through a viewing tool which would
provide camera and animation time controls.

Challenges
The challenge is in the development of a
flexible and user-friendly system for precise
and accurate animation of 3D visualisations.

Software component technology is utilised,
to build libraries with reusable software code,
which allows accurate programmes to be
built in a shorter period of time.

Contact
For further information, please contact
Dr. Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig at
mueller@camtech.ntu.edu.sg.