A car manufacturer from Stuttgart in southern Germany, has trodden some innovative paths with their “Digital Factory†project. In their factory planning building, they have installed a “digital planning roomâ€, in which specialists from all corporate divisions meet for interdisciplinary discussions on the construction and alteration of factory floors and production plants.
Everyone attending the meetings sits in front of the six by two meter panorama Power Wall. Six Christie HD8K projectors deliver three-dimensional images of factory floors via rear-projection. Through their 3D spectacles, they gain a detailed insight into planned buildings, parts or plants. Single buildings can be zoomed in on, or even visited by way of a virtual walk through of the future factory floors.
“Digital Factory Planning†means more than just an impressive 3D visualization. Virtual Reality is used here as a precise and fast tool with which all factory components can be represented and verified in one digital simulation.
Read the full story, and see the pictures, at Christie Digital’s EMEA website.