This paper presents the participative approach in factory design and describes the system developed at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Factory Operation and Automation to support the factory planning and facility management process. When designing a new factory or revitalising old factory buildings important decisions have to be taken in an early stage of the planning process. The developed Model-Shop helps to speed up the planning process by supplying the owner, architect, process planner, construction planner and suppliers a common framework/environment for their decision-making process. Using Virtual Reality the interdisciplinary planning team can walk through the factory actively and discuss current planning options to achieve a higher quality level of decision in much shorter time.
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Mezger, M., & Haberl, S. (1998). Creating competitive factories — Speeding up the innovation process in factory design using Virtual Reality as a new engineering tool (pp. 93–104). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35321-0_11
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