자동차 가상 차체공장을 이용한 물류 분석

Virtual Manufacturing is a technology facilitating effective development and agile production via digital computer models representing physical and logical schema and th behavior of the real manufacturing systems including manufacturing resources, environments and products. For the successful application of this technology, a virtual factory as a well-designed and an integrated environment is essential. In this paper, we constructed the sophisticated virtual factory of a Korean automotive company's body shop by 3-D CAD and simulation modeling, and conducted precise simulations of unit cell, lines and the whole factory for the collision check and the off-line programming. We expect that this virtual factory of the body shop helps us achieve great savings in time and cost for many manufacturing preparation activities of the new car development processes.