A Virtual Reality Laboratory Implementing Lean Manufacturing: Case Applied at Mechatronic Technical School

Abstract

Nowadays information technologies have been essential for the advancement of teaching and professional development. The world has experienced a pandemic crisis based on a virus called Sars-cov 2, this changed the way of living and the way of learning, now we face the challenge of learning to distance, the virtual laboratory allows us to acquire knowledge and develop skills based on a series of practices that the student carries out, this integrates Lean Manufacturing tools in order to give added value to the client, and by effect reducing waste to the company, which is one of the characteristics most important in lean philosophy. The purpose of this work is to facilitate the scope of the topics giving students the use of a quality process into the virtual reality simulator that ensure the quality of knowledge transmission based on practices designed to learn mechatronics and lean manufacturing topics. A virtual reality application is used to simulate a physical laboratory, which consists of: Research, Development and Testing steps, using Unity and 3DMax software. The virtual laboratory for a distance modality in the mechatronics career was carried out at technical high school, and developed by students of the mechanical and electrical engineering faculty, and currently designed for 2 practices, one of them is based on a DMAIC cycle [1].