O objetivo dessa pesquisa é responder à pergunta: Como as áreas de projetos e processos de empresas fabricantes de veículos automotivos podem se beneficiar dos softwares simuladores de montagem, durante as fases de projeto do produto e especificações dos processos a serem utilizados? O escopo desse trabalho está localizado na utilização de softwares de simulação virtual para análise das condições de montagem e detecção de possíveis interferências dos equipamentos de montagem durante o desenvolvimento de novos produtos. A validação deste trabalho será feita através da análise de dois estudos de caso. Para a coleta de dados serão realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com a utilização de um roteiro para a pesquisa de campo, aplicadas diretamente aos usuários dos processos de simulação da Engenharia de Processos de Montagem de Veículos da General Motors do Brasil. De posse dos conceitos obtidos pela revisão bibliográfica e pela pesquisa de campo, pudemos analisar os benefícios técnicos e econômicos da adoção das simulações virtuais dos processos de montagem e confirmar a validade das proposições estabelecidas: contribuição para a redução de custos adicionais em equipamentos de montagem e o aumento da detecção de interferências dimensionais entre partes e equipamentos numa montagem, durante a fase de projeto. / The research objective is to answer what can be an assembly process strategy in automotive companies to make use of virtual simulation over development product phase. The scope of this study is to use virtual simulation to analyze the assembly condition and detect interferences between assembly equipment and product parts or components during development phase. In this report we studied two cases in order to register the facts. Thus, some interviews and a semi-structured questionnaire were answered for General Motors do Brasil software simulation users. Making an analysis with the concept from literature and field investigation, the research shows the technical and economical virtual simulation advantages in the assembly process. Concluding, we could validate the two propositions: cost reduction with additional assembly equipment related and increase problem solving actions due product and process tooling interferences during design phase.

The term ‘Industry 4.0’ leads to many new possibilities like smart factory which is the amalgamation of manufacturing systems in a network to perform tasks more efficiently. It is becoming more and more important for the companies to develop smart factories and integrate the devices within such a facility to meet the demands of the evolving market. The next generation production systems are designed to share the data within the network, plan, and predict the solution for the future problems. One such technology under smart factory is 3D laser scanning resulting in point cloud of the production unit. The traditional way of documenting a layout is usually with the help of 2D computer aided designs which are susceptible to measurement errors and changes that are not updated regularly. With the help of point clouds, an as-is representation of the factories can be recorded which can be easily updated with changes in the real world. With advancements in virtual manufacturing, the need for visualization of the factories is increasing drastically. 3D Laser Scanning is one of the better ways of meeting this need, among many other applications. The focus of the thesis had been to create a method document for 3D laser scanning of factories and to discuss the future possibilities of it. The research approach used in this thesis was conducting observational study, interviews and testing of the method. One such future possibility is autonomous scanning and how it would be beneficial for a company like Scania which is developing smart factories. Based on the study carried out during the thesis, a document presenting the method developed is included in the report. The report also points out the applications and benefits of point cloud over traditional layout planning methods.

A integração on-line de dados reais com ambientes de realidade virtual imersivos, criando sistemas híbridos, é um campo de pesquisa multidisciplinar, ainda pouco explorado. O alto nível de envolvimento do usuário proporcionado pela realidade virtual imersiva e a confiabilidade e precisão de informações provenientes da aquisição de dados reais, de maneira on-line, podem auxiliar o processo de tomada de decisão, em diversas áreas de aplicação. Este trabalho apresenta uma metodologia de integração on-line de dados reais de manufatura com ambientes de realidade virtual imersivos, mais especificamente, com sistemas CAVE. A metodologia foi desenvolvida voltada para a área de manufatura virtual, com foco em máquinas-ferramenta. Foram criados e interligados dois métodos de aquisição de dados on-line, um deles específico para máquinas-ferramenta, através do protocolo MTConnect e outro, genérico, via imagens de câmeras. O trabalho foi desenvolvido, em geral, com base em bibliotecas e softwares livres, bem como com dispositivos de baixo custo. Por fim, avaliou-se a metodologia através de estudos de caso, baseados em dados reais on-line, provenientes de máquinas-ferramenta reais e de simuladores de dados de máquinas reais. Os resultados deste trabalho podem auxiliar o desenvolvimento de ferramentas que aumentem do nível de confiabilidade das tomadas de decisões baseadas em simulações virtuais da área de manufatura. E, devido à sua implementação modular, ao formato hierárquico e unificado de sua estrutura e à padronização de seus tipos de dados, comunicações e formas de utilização, pode ser adequada a quaisquer áreas de aplicação que utilizem integração de dados reais on-line com ambientes virtuais imersivos. / The on-line integration of real manufacturing data with immersive virtual reality environments, forming hybrid systems, is an underexplored multidisciplinary research field. The high level of users\' involvement provided by immersive virtual reality and the reliability and accuracy of information acquired on-line from real data, can assist the decision making process, in many research areas. This research presents a way to on-line integrate manufacturing real data with immersive virtual reality environments, more specifically, with CAVEs. This work was developed toward the area of virtual manufacturing, with focus on machine tools. Two data acquisition methods were created and placed to work together, one specific for machine tools, through the MTConnect protocol and the other, generic, through camera images acquisition. This work was based on free libraries and software, as well as low cost devices. Finally, this work was evaluated through case studies, based on on-line real data, from real machine tools and real machine data simulators. The results achieved with this research can contribute to the development of new tools to increase the reliability level of manufacturing virtual simulations. Moreover, due to its modular implementation, the hierarquical and unified structure format and the standardization of its communication methods and data types, it can be arranged to almost any research areas which use integration of real on-line data with immersive virtual environments.

A integração on-line de dados reais com ambientes de realidade virtual imersivos, criando sistemas híbridos, é um campo de pesquisa multidisciplinar, ainda pouco explorado. O alto nível de envolvimento do usuário proporcionado pela realidade virtual imersiva e a confiabilidade e precisão de informações provenientes da aquisição de dados reais, de maneira on-line, podem auxiliar o processo de tomada de decisão, em diversas áreas de aplicação. Este trabalho apresenta uma metodologia de integração on-line de dados reais de manufatura com ambientes de realidade virtual imersivos, mais especificamente, com sistemas CAVE. A metodologia foi desenvolvida voltada para a área de manufatura virtual, com foco em máquinas-ferramenta. Foram criados e interligados dois métodos de aquisição de dados on-line, um deles específico para máquinas-ferramenta, através do protocolo MTConnect e outro, genérico, via imagens de câmeras. O trabalho foi desenvolvido, em geral, com base em bibliotecas e softwares livres, bem como com dispositivos de baixo custo. Por fim, avaliou-se a metodologia através de estudos de caso, baseados em dados reais on-line, provenientes de máquinas-ferramenta reais e de simuladores de dados de máquinas reais. Os resultados deste trabalho podem auxiliar o desenvolvimento de ferramentas que aumentem do nível de confiabilidade das tomadas de decisões baseadas em simulações virtuais da área de manufatura. E, devido à sua implementação modular, ao formato hierárquico e unificado de sua estrutura e à padronização de seus tipos de dados, comunicações e formas de utilização, pode ser adequada a quaisquer áreas de aplicação que utilizem integração de dados reais on-line com ambientes virtuais imersivos. / The on-line integration of real manufacturing data with immersive virtual reality environments, forming hybrid systems, is an underexplored multidisciplinary research field. The high level of users\' involvement provided by immersive virtual reality and the reliability and accuracy of information acquired on-line from real data, can assist the decision making process, in many research areas. This research presents a way to on-line integrate manufacturing real data with immersive virtual reality environments, more specifically, with CAVEs. This work was developed toward the area of virtual manufacturing, with focus on machine tools. Two data acquisition methods were created and placed to work together, one specific for machine tools, through the MTConnect protocol and the other, generic, through camera images acquisition. This work was based on free libraries and software, as well as low cost devices. Finally, this work was evaluated through case studies, based on on-line real data, from real machine tools and real machine data simulators. The results achieved with this research can contribute to the development of new tools to increase the reliability level of manufacturing virtual simulations. Moreover, due to its modular implementation, the hierarquical and unified structure format and the standardization of its communication methods and data types, it can be arranged to almost any research areas which use integration of real on-line data with immersive virtual environments.

<p>Saab Automobile AB i Trollhättan är i behov av en förbättrad metod för virtuella byggnationer som beredningen kan använda sig av i biltillverkningen. Genom att skapa en processtruktur i befintligt PLM-system som kan kommunicera och hämta data från den produktstruktur som redan finns skulle mycket arbete kunna sparas. Idag använder beredarna sig av ett visualiseringsprogram som man kopplar produktstrukturen till. Enligt nuvarande metod bygger beredarna upp en struktur i detta visualiseringsprogram som fungerar som en processtruktur inför varje ny projektgrind. Denna struktur går inte att enkelt uppdatera och därför måste en ny skapas inför varje ny projektgrind. På detta sätt blir de virtuella byggnationerna resursineffektiva.</p><p>Genom att skapa en processtruktur som är möjlig att enkelt uppdatera skulle strukturen kunna återanvändas vid ny projektgrind men även under löpande projekt. Detta stämmer väl överens med grundtankarna bakom att använda ett PLM system. Ett flertal problem återstår att lösa för att detta skall kunna bli möjligt.</p><p>Slutsatserna av studien är att i processtrukturen bör artiklarna finnas under de stationer och operationer där de monteras i den verkliga fabriken. Det finns ingen universell lösning för hur strukturen skall se ut. Den enda vägledning som finns är att den skall spegla fabrikens processer. För att beredarna lätt skall kunna dra nytta av denna struktur bör även möjlighet finnas att söka upp artiklar genom ett namnfilter.</p><p>Beredare har idag ansvar för ett visst produktområde, t.ex. säkerhetsrelaterade artiklar. Alla artiklar från detta produktområde monteras i skilda avsnitt av fabriken. För att det skall vara möjligt att på ett effektivt sätt hitta var i produktstrukturen dessa artiklar monteras bör därför de olika operationerna namnges efter vilka olika produktområden artiklarna kommer ifrån. På detta sätt kan fördelning av olika system enkelt filtreras fram.</p><p>Ett förslag på temporärt arbetssätt har tagits fram och instruktionerna finns som bilaga B.</p> / <p>Saab is in need of an improved method for construction of virtual buildings that the planner can utilize. By creating a process structure in the existing PLM system, that can communicate and consume data from the product structure that already exists, a lot of work could be saved. Presently, the planner uses a visualization program that is connected only to the product structure. The current method with this visualization software is that the planner builds a process structure for each and every new project gate. This structure cannot easily be updated and therefore a new structure must be created before the new project gate. Thus, the virtual builds become resource inefficient.</p><p>By creating a process structure that easily can be updated, the structure could be reused in new gates and projects. This is consistent with the basic ideas behind using a PLM system. There are several obstacles to master before this will be possible. </p><p>The conclusions of this study are that in the process structure, the articles should be placed under the stations and operations where they are mounted in the actual factory. There is no universal solution as to how the structure should be, but it should reflect the plant processes. In order for the planner to easily take advantage of this structure, it should also be possible to look up articles using a name filter.</p><p>Planners are currently responsible for particular product areas, such as safety related articles. All parts of this product field are installed in separate sections in the plant. In order to efficiently find all the articles in the process structure, the operations should be named after the articles that are assembled under the specific operation.</p><p>A temporary working method has been proposed and the instructions can be found in Appendix B.</p>

Saab Automobile AB i Trollhättan är i behov av en förbättrad metod för virtuella byggnationer som beredningen kan använda sig av i biltillverkningen. Genom att skapa en processtruktur i befintligt PLM-system som kan kommunicera och hämta data från den produktstruktur som redan finns skulle mycket arbete kunna sparas. Idag använder beredarna sig av ett visualiseringsprogram som man kopplar produktstrukturen till. Enligt nuvarande metod bygger beredarna upp en struktur i detta visualiseringsprogram som fungerar som en processtruktur inför varje ny projektgrind. Denna struktur går inte att enkelt uppdatera och därför måste en ny skapas inför varje ny projektgrind. På detta sätt blir de virtuella byggnationerna resursineffektiva. Genom att skapa en processtruktur som är möjlig att enkelt uppdatera skulle strukturen kunna återanvändas vid ny projektgrind men även under löpande projekt. Detta stämmer väl överens med grundtankarna bakom att använda ett PLM system. Ett flertal problem återstår att lösa för att detta skall kunna bli möjligt. Slutsatserna av studien är att i processtrukturen bör artiklarna finnas under de stationer och operationer där de monteras i den verkliga fabriken. Det finns ingen universell lösning för hur strukturen skall se ut. Den enda vägledning som finns är att den skall spegla fabrikens processer. För att beredarna lätt skall kunna dra nytta av denna struktur bör även möjlighet finnas att söka upp artiklar genom ett namnfilter. Beredare har idag ansvar för ett visst produktområde, t.ex. säkerhetsrelaterade artiklar. Alla artiklar från detta produktområde monteras i skilda avsnitt av fabriken. För att det skall vara möjligt att på ett effektivt sätt hitta var i produktstrukturen dessa artiklar monteras bör därför de olika operationerna namnges efter vilka olika produktområden artiklarna kommer ifrån. På detta sätt kan fördelning av olika system enkelt filtreras fram. Ett förslag på temporärt arbetssätt har tagits fram och instruktionerna finns som bilaga B. / Saab is in need of an improved method for construction of virtual buildings that the planner can utilize. By creating a process structure in the existing PLM system, that can communicate and consume data from the product structure that already exists, a lot of work could be saved. Presently, the planner uses a visualization program that is connected only to the product structure. The current method with this visualization software is that the planner builds a process structure for each and every new project gate. This structure cannot easily be updated and therefore a new structure must be created before the new project gate. Thus, the virtual builds become resource inefficient. By creating a process structure that easily can be updated, the structure could be reused in new gates and projects. This is consistent with the basic ideas behind using a PLM system. There are several obstacles to master before this will be possible.  The conclusions of this study are that in the process structure, the articles should be placed under the stations and operations where they are mounted in the actual factory. There is no universal solution as to how the structure should be, but it should reflect the plant processes. In order for the planner to easily take advantage of this structure, it should also be possible to look up articles using a name filter. Planners are currently responsible for particular product areas, such as safety related articles. All parts of this product field are installed in separate sections in the plant. In order to efficiently find all the articles in the process structure, the operations should be named after the articles that are assembled under the specific operation. A temporary working method has been proposed and the instructions can be found in Appendix B.

The market has been evolving lately, with the introduction of more and more digital tools that industries are making use to improve their overall operations within the Production process. The integration of digital tools within the Product realization process has major advantages in improving production performance. Many large industries make use of digital tools to digitize their products making them smart products. Implementing these digital tools can be beneficial for reshaping the organization which can lead to better customer satisfaction and improve business strategy. This project explores different digital tools that can be integrated with the product realization process and how these tools contribute to the different production development phases. This thesis presents a detailed study of the digital tools Simulation, Visualization, Emulation, and Digital twins which can be integrated with the product development process. A pre-study is conducted to gather knowledge regarding the application of these tools and further discover how these tools can support the Product realization process and is used to describe which tool works best at which stage of the product realization process, which can be used to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the production process. Implementing these digital tools within the production facility can be associated to smart factory paradigm of the Fourth industrial revolution Industry4.0.This research aims to contribute to the use of digital tools in the production processes and aids in bridging the gap between traditional and modern manufacturing methods. The outcome of this study is to clarify how the above-mentioned digital tools are linked to the product realization process to support an efficient and digitalized production development, also mentioning the strengths and weaknesses of these tools. The resulting analysis has provided a framework developed to support an efficient digitalized production development and preparation process for assembly tasks utilizing human and robot collaboration. This research paper can be used as a guide for companies that want to explore how implementing digital tools in their product realization process and how it may improve their productivity.

This thesis deals with the Industry 4.0 focusing on virtual manufacturing and its inte- gration into education. The aim of the thesis is to summarize and describe the Industry 4.0, and create necessary materials designed for teaching the virtual manufacturing. There is also a discussion on the real use of the virtual manufacturing and possible economic return for firms. Moreover, software programs for the virtual manufacturing available on the market, their options and their real use are also involved in the thesis. It also includes an application design for virtual manufacturing including laboratory tu- torials and the use of this application in education. There are also suggestions for other exercises that could move the teaching of the virtual manufacturing in the Czech Republic further.

In this paper we propose an approach for incremental learning of semi-supervised SVM. The proposed approach makes use of the locality of radial basis function kernels to do local and incremental training of semi-supervised support vector machines. The algorithm introduces a se- quential minimal optimization based implementation of the branch and bound technique for training semi-supervised SVM problems. The novelty of our approach lies in the in the introduction of incremental learning techniques to semisupervised SVMs.

La conservation des informations dans les industries dont le processus de transformation est divergent a toujours induit d'importantes contraintes, et en particulier dans l'industrie du bois. Les solutions de traçabilité existant à l'heure actuelle ne permettent pas de conserver ces informations tout au long du cycle de vie du produit bois. L'objectif de cette thèse est de montrer la faisabilité de deux concepts contribuant à la conservation de l'information : le paradigme de matière communicante et le paradigme de Virtual Manufacturing. Avec le premier, il est possible de conserver les informations relatives à l'origine du produit par l'intermédiaire d'un marquage chimique appliqué à l'ensemble de la matière, lequel marquage sera identifié par Résonance Quadrupolaire Nucléaire. Dans le deuxième paradigme nous anticipons l'évaluation des caractéristiques des produits finaux en numérisant la matière et en virtualisant les opérations de transformation. Grâce à cela, il est possible de déterminer les caractéristiques des produits réels en prenant en compte l'imperfection des données et des décisions.