proposal for virtual machine project

Proposal for Virtual Machine Project

Prepared By:

Kiran Thapa

Mechanical Design Support

Eureka Design Co., Ltd

Thailand

July 2012

Prepared by: Kiran Thapa 1

Background:

According to the 3 year strategic plan of Eureka Design co., ltd. for the year 2013 to 2015, Virtual machine and operation excellent was already being included as one of the important area for development and investment by Eureka company. This virtual machine prototyping technology will help to increase our productivity, reduces our customer validation time, increase customer satisfaction, add value to our product and

give Eureka edge over its competitor. As a newly established “Mechanical Design Support“ department and its responsible focus area of new R&D and special project for Eureka product, this department would like to request for the approval of this project and budget allocation via this report. This report will cover more detail about this technology, its short term and long term benefits, existing technologies and solution providers in market and recommend possible direction to go ahead to start this project.

Introduction:

Virtual machine or virtual reality (VR) is relatively a new technology.VR is a computer simulation that used 3D graphics and devices to provide an interactive visual experience. It can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds. VR is often used to describe a wide variety of applications commonly associated with immersive, highly visual, 3D environments. With the development of CAD software, graphics hardware acceleration, head mounted displays, database

gloves, and miniaturization have helped popularize this technology. Potential field of application of virtual are automobile industry, design, manufacturing, entertainment, game etc.

Automobile Industry Design


Industrial Manufacturing Military Field

Entertainment Medical

Gaming Research and Education

Different between Virtual reality and mixed reality:

Most of the time virtual reality and mixed (augmented) reality (MR) is used as synonyms

but there is different between these two technology. In virtual reality we see only the


virtual thing. But in mixed reality we can still see the real world and virtual word mixed

together and coexisting together. Hence mixed reality gives us actual information but doesn't replace the real world we are experiencing. Mixed reality can be considered as

advancement in virtual reality.

Virtual world with real wrld MR example

MR in mobile map Phone Pad on hand


Google Glass for MR Canon MR technology

Advantages of VR/MR technology:

Although the technology is quite new and under R&D phase there are already a lot of interest and promising areas where it is being implemented and trusted. Game industry

and entertainment industry is considered as high customer density area for this product. Another most important area is manufacturing and automobile industry where this

technology can take place of rapid prototyping and product development. The term

being used is virtual prototyping. This shorten the product verifying and testing time, as 3D CAD model can directly being realized virtually before moving into any kind of actual development. Some of its advantages are listed below

● Increase productivity

● Increase display resolution● Accelerate the validation process

● Tools to add support for decision-making● Reduce the decision cycles with your customers

● Improve collaborative process

Types of Display Options:

1. Head Mount system (HMD):


VR Pro AR 5DT HMD 800

Canon HMD2. Cave:

Jaguar Land Rover’s Virtual Cave

3. Visualization Wall:


COVISE - Visualization wall

4. Workbench:

Polhemus - Workbench5. VR Dome:


Vision station- VR Dome

Types of Navigation Options:

1. SpaceMouse

ART- Flystick3

2. PC joystick

ART- Flystick2

3. Data globe


5DT Data Glove MRI

4. Haptic

Types of Tracking Options:

1. Inertial / Magnetic / Optical

InterSense- inertial sensor Wintracker Magnetic sensor


ART-TRACKPACK camera LaserBIRD's scanner

2. Finger Tracking:

ART-Finger Tracking device

3. Capture suite


BEAMING - Capture Suite

4. Eye and face tracer

ART- Glass Tracer 3dVT4


VR/MR Technology for Eureka Design

Why Eureka Need VR/MR Technology?

Customer satisfaction is very important aspect of Eureka business as we work closely

with customer in every steps by understanding their needs and during the whole process of machine design, development, verification and system installation. Hence a smart and quick mechanism to reduce the customer interaction while increasing the

increasing a satisfaction level and increasing our productivity is needed. VR/ MR technology can be a most suitable option for this.

● Using this technology we will be able to demonstrate and discuss about our design with customer in more realistic environment.

● Quickly and more efficient validation process in VR/MR with customer save time.

● Enables the user to validate the ergonomic factors for various human tasks, such

as the study of reach analysis or to see the collisions between the human body and the 3D model.

● Additional function like Virtual Assembly product enables the user to select and interactively move a part of the 3D model, to view collisions with the model and

record an animation that can be reloaded for further studies.

● Helps in gaining customer trust and add value to our product.

● Video record of the discussion process with customer in during validation process

of virtual prototype can serve as record for future reference.

● As a latest technology and trend in market, having this technology give Eureka

edge over its competitor.

Advantages for individual departments of Eureka:

After successful implementation of this project not only mechanical department but all

other departments like sales, system integration, assembly, drawing, QA etc can equallybenefit from it.


Plans:

Plan for this project is to start with some basic functionality and go on increasing and upgrading the system every year depending upon our productivity improvements and

customer satisfaction feedback. This is just a tentative plan so some of our long term plan can be implemented in beginning of the project as the technology is already there. This depend upon our budget allocation and further discussion with in company and

system provider.

1. Short term (1- 1.5 years)


Initial study of technology, market research, information collection and supplier contact process is already been started for VR/ MR system.

Eureka basic requirements:1. Virtual visualization system of machine designed in Solid works in 1:1 ratio.

2. Head mounted display and tracking system for customer and operator so that both

of them can see and discuss about the product and navigate around it in real time.

3. Some interaction devices for pointing and selection specific components.

4. Shape and size of the visualized virtual product should be same as that of the real product so that customer can check for its ergonomics and user friendliness.

5. System to record the comments (video) of customer for future references.

6. Start with some basic functionality and go on increasing and upgrading the system every year depending upon our productivity improvements and customer

satisfaction.

With in the beginning of the year 2013 VR/MR system will be setup and run in

Eureka company. Below chart shows tentative short term plans for 2012-2013.


2. Long term Plan ( 1.5 - 3 years)

After successful test and run of the VR/MR system for the first year there will be feedback and evaluation of the benefit of this system to Eureka. According to the

feedback and suggestion from inside company and our system provider system will be upgrade. Following can be some additional improvements

1. Fully equipped separate visualization room .

2. 1 full time operator with following responsibilities

- Operate and maintain the System.- Create backup of all the 3D model of old and new machine designed by eureka

- Design and upgrade machine designed by mechanical department with additional function to make it look realistic (SolidWorks Real View).

- Assist and help customer and external visitors and internal visitors in showing

Eureka machine during their visit to our company.- Suggest company about new development in this field.

3. Add more functionalities such as- virtual assembly


- advanced projector system

- advanced tracking system- digital review (measurements, manipulate clipping planes, take snapshots,

select and hide parts or add annotations directly on the model.)- force feedback and haptic device- more realistic mixed reality options

- portable options for on-site virtual machine visualization

4. Integrate addon such as

- Machine configuration and e-commerce- modular design and modular process into VR system

- Simulation/ emulation of the machine operations


Possible System Providers in Market:

1. Complete system provider(Hardware+Software)

i. Techviz

Contact Headquarter Offices

63 boulevard Masséna75013 Paris, France

Tel : +33 (0)1 55 03 00 66Fax : +33 (0)1 45 86 52 74http://www.techviz.net

Contact person Julie Berthonneau

International Account Manager

63, bld Massena 75013 Paris FRANCE

Tel : +33 1 55 03 00 80

Skype: julieTechviz

[email protected]

Company info. - established: 2004- provide advanced visualization solutionsfor 3D applications

- Support Solidworks- CAA Development Partnership withDassault Systèmes

- partner with leading navigation andtracking system providers in world- already provide solution to leadingAutomotive, manufacturing, Aeronautical,architecture, petroleum companiesthrough our world.

Price *Software(basic)+Hardware(HMD+Tracking system 4 camera)= 114,700€(4,530,650 THB)*Software= 66,904€ (2,642,708 THB)

*for more detail see Appendix-1

ii. WIN DIRECTION


Contact 502/484 Techatungka Rd.,Seegun, Donmuang, Bangkok,

Thailand 10210Tel: 662-929-2019, 905-1882Fax: 662-905-1882

E-mail: [email protected]

Contact person

Company Info. - 3D gaming company- new in field of virtual prototype forindustry- software ‘IceTin3D’ very new- need 4 month for preparing system afterorder....

Price **Hardware + software = 4,233,669 THB

**for more detail see Appendix-2

iii. iSiD (software developer for Canon MR)

Contact Head Office

2-17-1 Konan, Minato-ku,Tokyo 108-0075, Japan

TEL 03-6713-6111FAX 03-6713-9928http://www.isid.co.jp/english/

Contact person

Shogo SueyoshiClient Solutions DepartmentⅡ System Integration Unit

Engineering Solutions BusinessOperations

[email protected]

Company info - software developer of canon mixed


reality system developer

- canon will lunch MR technology in end of July 2012 only in Japan

- iSiD under consideration to do business in thailand this year.

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Price ***Hardware+software = 20,000,000 Yen (8,140,000 THB)

*** for more detail see Appendix-2

2. Tracking and navigation system provider:

i. ART

Advanced Realtime Tracking GmbHAm Oeferl 682362 Weilheim i.OB

Germanyhttp://www.ar-tracking.com

ii. ViconVicon - Los Angeles

5419 McConnell Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90066, USAT: 310.306.6131 F: 310.437.4229E: [email protected]://www.vicon.com/index.html

iii. InterSense

InterSense, LLC700 Technology Park Drive

Suite 102Billerica, MA 01821+1 781 541 6330

+1 781 541 6329 (fax)http://www.intersense.com/

iv. Virtual RealitiesVirtual Realities, Ltd.

2437 Bay Area Blvd.


Suite 264Houston, Texas 77058

Phone: (800)683-2917 / (409)599-7863Fax: (409)515-0838

E-mail: [email protected]://www.vrealities.com


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