DiFac
From EuroVR Knowledge Base
- Full name
- Digital Factory for Human Oriented Production System
- Acronym
- DiFac
- Website
- http://www.difac.net/
- Keywords
- manufacturing, digital factory, product design, factory layout, remote training, emergency training
- Budget
- € 3,641,742€
- Start date
- May 2006
- End date
- April 2009
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Partners
• Institute of Industrial Technology and Automation of National Research Council of Italy (ITIA-CNR), Italy
• Mathématiques Appliqués S.A. (MASA), France
• University of Nottingham, UK
• PRIMA Industrie, Italy
• Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation (LMS), University of Patras, Greece
• Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA), Germany
• Wittmann & Partner, Romania
• Technology Transfer System, Italy
• MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
• Metaio, Germany
• P.Pashalidis & Sons S.A. (PPS), Greece
Funding Bodies
Contact
Dr. Marco Sacco ([1])
Objectives
The DiFac project aims at the development of an innovative Collaborative Manufacturing Environment (CME) for next generation digital manufacturing. The DiFac CME will be used as a framework to support group work in an immersive and interactive way, for concurrent product design, prototyping and manufacturing, as well as worker training. It will provide support for data analysis, visualization, advanced interaction and presence within the virtual environment, ergonomics analysis, and collaborative decision-making.
Main Results
End Users
SMEs
PRIMA INDUSTRIE
Wittmann & Partner
Pantelis Pashalidis & Sons S.A.
Evaluation Methodologies
Publications
Application & Research Areas
