Virtual Factory for roll shop design and simulation

This software tool was developed for a large Italian company acting in the market of roll milling, starting from the prototype GIOVE-VF developed in the VFF project. This application relates to the production and maintenance planning of a roll shop, devoted to the grinding of cylinders for rolling mills. A Virtual Factory approach was implemented to support the integrated design of a roll shop defining the layout in a virtual reality environment and evaluating its performance through a customizable discrete event simulation (DES) model. The analysis of simulation results was useful to suggest the adoption of the best process policy.