... product maintainability in virtual maintenance environment at stage of early design. Haiquan Yu can be contacted at: Hqyu5@126.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Maintenance Systems engineering Cost effectiveness Virtual work Modern markets not only urge companies...

... low; dangerous and costly environments can be analyzed virtually without risks associated with environment. Simulation Sensors Virtual work Robotics Hot‐cell facility is a highly shielded tight casing in which highly radioactive substances are remotely handled by manipulators observing...

... of product model, the client node can run in a single‐PC, or in a PC‐cluster supported by high‐speed LAN (gigabit). Design for assembly Automotive industry Virtual work With the increase of complex component structure and refined model, it is difficult for a single manufacturer to complete...

... registration and computer vision‐based registration (Yuan et al., 2006). Virtual work Intelligent sensors Computer applications © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Guan Tao can be contacted at: qd_gt@126.com The function of state transition model is to simulate...

... Group Publishing Limited 2008 Virtual work Assembly Component manufacturing Constraint handling To avoid this situation, we propose a new method to capture the user's operation intent and recognize geometric constraint from large numbers of possible mating relationships by applying...

.... Each member of the enterprise has a high level of expertise in their field and each component or sub‐system must be of the highest quality with a reasonable price. Lead times should be shortened because member facilities are dedicated to making the component or sub‐system. Virtual work...

... deployment; it is a unit of third‐party composition; and it has no persistent state. N. Mahalik can be contacted at: nmahalik@gist.ac.kr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Virtual work Distributed parameter control systems Component manufacturing The concept...