A Virtual Manufacturing Environment for Interoperability Testing

Published

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Sanjay Jain, Andreas Craens, Deogratias Kibira

Abstract

Studies have documented the high cost of the lack of software interoperability on manufacturing. New interface standards are being developed by various organizations to address interoperability issues. Unfortunately these standards often overlap and conflict with each other. Adequate testing facilities are not available for evaluating the suitability and effectiveness of existing and candidate standards for application to specific manufacturing domain areas. The Virtual Manufacturing Environment (VME) Project of the NIST Manufacturing Interoperability Program is focused on developing integrated manufacturing simulations that can be used to support future industry interoperability testing needs. This paper presents a summary of interoperability testing opportunities and needs, an overview of a project to develop a virtual manufacturing environment to support interoperability testing, and the current status of simulation development efforts.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the Delft University of Technology Conference

Conference Dates

June 11-13, 2007

Conference Location

Delft

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

information models, interface standards, interoperability, simulation, testing, Virtual manufacturing

Citation

McLean, C. , Jain, S. , Craens, A. and Kibira, D. (2007), A Virtual Manufacturing Environment for Interoperability Testing, Proceedings of the Delft University of Technology Conference, Delft, -1, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=822713 (Accessed October 18, 2025)