Multimedia Simulation Package for Teaching Manufacturing Processes in a Virtual Environment, Phase I

用于在虚拟环境中教授制造过程的多媒体仿真包，第一阶段

• 批准号: 9652823
• 负责人: Joel Troxler
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Montana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9652823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multimedia; Simulation; Package; Teaching; Manufacturing

A substantial number of graduates of engineering, business, and technology programs in the U.S. go on to jobs in the manufacturing sector. These jobs often require the design, and/or management of complex, information-intensive manufacturing systems. But most engineers and business majors have very little exposure to manufacturing processes. This project will result in the first phase of development of comprehensive simulation software for teaching operational strategies and manufacturing processes in a virtual environment. The package will include a graphical, animated user interface for selection and input of all necessary variables, parameters and process control information; process models to simulate changes in materials as they are shaped into products; and graphical, multi-media procedures for indicating the results and providing a platform for impact analysis on other enterprise elements such as cost and quality. It will be used by a variety of engineering, technology, and business students in any college or university where manufacturing process courses are part of the curriculum. It will also be used by design/build teams for manufacturability analysis in capstone engineering design. The system developed will be analogous to a flight simulator for training pilots. Potential pilots spend many hours in flight simulators "learning to fly" without burning an ounce of fuel. Students who use this system will spend time 'learning to manufacture" by experiencing manufacturing processes where actual costs and time demands are usually prohibitive. Incorporating the software into the curriculum will result in orders of magnitude improvement in the relevance of the educational experience compared to job expectations. Experience gained by using this software will permit newly hired engineers, technologists and future managers to be more productive and creative in industry in a shorter period of time.

在美国，相当数量的工程、商业和技术专业毕业生进入制造业工作。这些工作通常需要设计和/或管理复杂的信息密集型制造系统。但大多数工程师和商科专业的学生对制造流程的接触很少。该项目将导致开发在虚拟环境中教授作业战略和制造过程的综合模拟软件的第一阶段。该一揽子计划将包括一个图形化的动画用户界面，用于选择和输入所有必要的变量、参数和过程控制信息；过程模型，用于模拟材料在成型为产品时的变化；以及图形化的多媒体程序，用于显示结果并为成本和质量等其他企业要素的影响分析提供平台。它将被任何学院或大学的各种工程、技术和商业学生使用，这些学院或大学的制造工艺课程是课程的一部分。它还将被设计/建造团队用于Capstone工程设计中的可制造性分析。开发的系统将类似于用于培训飞行员的飞行模拟器。潜在的飞行员在飞行模拟器中花费了许多小时来学习飞行，而不需要燃烧一盎司的燃料。使用该系统的学生将通过体验实际成本和时间要求通常令人望而却步的制造过程来学习制造。将该软件纳入课程将导致教育经验与工作期望的相关性提高几个数量级。使用该软件获得的经验将使新聘用的工程师、技术人员和未来的经理在较短的时间内在行业中提高生产力和创造力。