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This 4 page paper reviews two articles concerning the use of technology in manufacturing. The articles look at virtual engineering and the use of virtual prototypes. The main points of the paper are summarized and the writer states why the articles are interesting. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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that recent technological developments are impacting on some manufacturing industries. The first article is by Bernard (2005) and entitled "Virtual engineering: methods and tools". Manufacturing is the production of goods,
there are many areas where these process see costs incurred. This includes the lead period where there is no income produced which may be determined at least in part by
the development of the manufacturing processes. This is a delay that can take an undetermined amount of time to traverse and the longer it takes the more it costs,
not only with the wasted time but also the resources and prototypes that are created. If technology ca be used to reduce this lead time then costs can be saved
as well as the potential being found to develop better quality or more reliable manufacturing processes and equipment. Bernard (2005) argues that in the development time, especially with the
development of the processes of manufacture for new goods there are four areas of trade off in the development cycle which need to be balanced. These are the development speed,
the cost of production, the produce performance and the cost of the development programme. These are all competing, the longer development time may lead to better systems and processes but
will increase development time and costs (Bernard, 2005). The need to reduce the time to market period has been a motivation behind the development of software that allows for
the emulation of an engineering process with the use of virtual engineering (Bernard, 2005). Software has been developed with the use of a range of knowledge bases and in conjunction
with the product data management system that can take a range of inputs and simulate the different potential methods of manufacture (Bernard, 2005). This allows the different processes and
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