Virtual product validation for human operability in VR with IC.IDO

Bringing new off-highway machines to market can trigger heavy investments in the construction of full-scale mock-ups or prototypes. However, digital transformation trends make investments to perform physical product review clinics or focus group activities less frequent. Accessibility to full-size models and mock-ups of current and future products has been severely reduced, disrupting product development timelines at many global enterprises. Virtual reality build and maintenance experiences can fill that gap.

Enterprises that integrate Human-Centric process validations into their product development processes can facilitate engineering reviews as if traveling in space and time to future production or service environments. During a virtual process review, the engineer or stakeholder in VR will experience a physically plausible and reliable simulation where they interact with virtual parts that collide with one another, actuate complex mechanisms, and flex cables or hoses to complete the job.

Unlike virtual reality experiences built up like video game levels, IC.IDO allows engineers to work with their production CAD data, bring it directly into IC.IDO, and visualize it immediately. With minimal operator input, engineers can analyze product packaging, access, and installation paths, and document their observations. With little more effort, they can fully synthesize the production-intent and experience in VR what would normally need to wait until serial production to witness.

Investment required to emulate in Extended Reality (XR) the production or maintenance environment and activities is a fraction of the cost required to construct physical mock-ups, whether the cost is tracked as financial cost in Dollars or Euros, time delays, slippage of product intent, or diminished quality. With IC.IDO virtual reality assets and experiences performed during product development can be passed downstream for use in product documentation, work instruction, and process familiarization or training.