virtualization of design and production a thesis - Bilkent University

so that different covers generate different outlooks on the ceiling. The
interchangeable outer parts add a customizable attribute to the design.
Originally, ZER Company has extensive experience on a different branch of
lighting which is the lightbars for police and ambulances. When the general
manager decided to start an architectural lighting project besides the production
of lightbars, the first thing that he had to do was to employ industrial designers
and provide high performance computers for them. After some serious marketing
research, the design of a spotlight has been chosen as the initial project.
However, the thing that the company lacks is enough efficiency in the production
line since it is a company that leads a batch type production rather than mass
production. These limitations in the production line would possibly affect the
production of lighting project but somehow these limitations were neglected in
the first hand. The main concentration was on the development of the project.
All of the concept generation and engineering of the design were developed via
3D modeling software with all its complicated details and analysis calculations.
Obviously, engineering assistance was received for material selection and
structure analysis. At some certain stages, rapid prototyping technology was
integrated to the process so that the structure, assembly and the form of the
product can be tested. The data stored for the virtual model is converted to
another format that the rapid prototype machine can encode so that virtual model
is transformed to an actual model without any complementary application. The
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