Called AVILUS, the project is a technology for design created by Volkswagen and the Virtual Techniques Innovation Alliance (IA VT). Created with the help of a great number of specialists, coming from car makers, aircraft manufacturers, shipbuilders and plant and machinery constructors, the tool is the promise of better, cheaper cars in the future; it also promises to bring the same two attributes to aircraft or ship products to be created in the years to come.
"For the first time anywhere in the world these innovative approaches make it possible to create a continuous process chain from the development stage all the way through to after-sales service," said. Werner Schreiber, head of Volkswagen’s Virtual Technologies research division and leader of the AVILUS project.
What this technology brings to a market which already seems flooded with design programs is the ability for the engineers to experience and handle their creation inside and out. The resulted design can be then validated virtually, production systems can be commissioned in the same way and even product verification can be performed while in VR.
AVILUS was presented by Volkswagen to the members of the Braunschweig Marketing Management Institute. The project is not yet complete and, for what it's worth, there's no telling when it will be. When it does come here though, a brave new world of virtual design and engineering should come with it.
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