Integration of manufacturing system and product design with DMU

Digital mock-up (DMU) is a new product and process development strategy that will have a significant impact on the development process of the future. The IT technologies created in DMU research projects are to permit product and process verification in any product development phase, without requiring physical models or prototypes and with only one final verification against the physical model. One of these new technologies is digital mock-up process simulation (DMU-PS). In future, digital mock-up process simulation is to enable engineers to model and simulate assembly and disassembly processes for series production, after-sales service and recycling within an integrated software system.