VIRTUAL LIBRARY

We have a Virtual Factory, so why not a Virtual Library for the Virtual Factory? This page provides references for relevant publications and links to relevant web sites.

• Research Web Sites
• Publications and Journals
• Virtual Factory Technology (Commercial)
• Virtual Factory Technology (Freeware and Shareware)
• Professional Societies
• Presentations

Related Research Web Sites

Publications and Journals

This section is under construction. Please check back later. In the meantime, you can look at the following:

Factory Physics: Foundations of Manufacturing Management by Wallace J. Hopp and Mark L. Spearman

Sites with links to manufacturing references

Manufacturing Institute at Arizona State University

Virtual Factory Technology (Commercial)

Manufacturing Control Systems Technology

(Under construction)

Programming and Modeling Technology

Java from Sun Microsystems

Unified Modeling Language from Rational Software

Simulation Technology

ARENA from Rockwell Software

AutoMod from AutoSimulations

Virtual Manufacturing Prototyping System from Delmia

WITNESS from The Lanner Group

Visualization Technology

AutoCAD from AutoDesk

Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML)

Virtual Factory Technology (Freeware and Shareware)

Under construction

Professional Societies

American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Robotics and Automation Society
• Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

• College on Simulation

Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Presentations

A collection of presentations courtesy of Marc Goetschalckx.

• Introduction
  
• Transportation Systems Introduction
  
• Vehicle Routing
  
• Inventory
  
• Order Picking
  
• Warehousing Systems