Relationships among VM, Virtual Prototyping, the Virtual Enterprise

Virtual Manufacturing (VM)

VM is a synthetic, integrated manufacturing environment exercised to improve all levels of control and decision in process and product design, production planning, process planning, and shop floor control.

Virtual Enterprise (VE)

A quickly configured multi-disciplinary network of minute, process-exact firms configured to meet a window of opportunity to produce and design an exact product.

Virtual Environment (VE)

VE, alternatively called as or synthetic environment,  virtual reality (VR),is  a  collection  of  technologies,  that  offer  the  chance  to integrate the human in a computing system.

Virtual Prototype

A computer-based simulation of subsystems and systems along with a degree of functional realism comparable to a physical prototype. Virtual prototypes are utilized for evaluation and test of exact characteristics of a candidate design.

Virtual Prototyping (VP)

The process of utilizing a virtual prototype, for evaluation and test of exact characteristics of a candidate design in lieu of physical prototype.