The current development in industrial applications shows a variety of approaches to perform maintenance: With reactive maintenance, only parts which fail will be replaced. This causes high costs and high unexpected failure rates. Preventive maintenance uses a predefined service plan and also a wear part exchange schedule. The plan or schedule is often based on real-time or an operation time. This often results in fixed maintenance cycles ...

Nowadays, buildings or production facilities are designed using specialized design software and building information modeling tools help to evaluate the resulting virtual mock-up. However, with current, primarily desktop based tools it is hard to evaluate human factors of such a design, for instance spatial constraints for workforces. This paper presents a new tool for factory planning and evaluation based on virtual reality that allows ...