Collaborative Design in Concurrent Engineering of Industry 4.0 Through Virtual Reality Simulation in Achieving Accelerated Time-To-Market During COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic Outbreak

Abstract

In the era of industry 4.0, it is important for businesses to conduct design and engineering activities via data exchange in cloud computing. Collaborative design in concurrent engineering through virtual reality simulation using digital mock up (DMU) presented in this paper is to construct a simulation in digital environment in order to reduce development time, cost and improve quality of product which will impact to accelerated time to market. However, due to current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic outbreak, the activities could be interrupted. The virtual reality design collaboration seems to be as a solution with the support of cloud storage of product design and satisfy design issue in concurrent engineering. It is also overcome the geographical limitation and social distancing constraint in “face to face” collaboration. Thus, stakeholders’ activities are carried out as usual without interruption in the challenging period during the pandemic. Finally, virtual simulation of collaborative design in concurrent engineering of previous related works conducted by the author are briefly presented.