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The present paper describes the results of recent and ongoing major European projects about the virtual factory design topic, highlighting in particular new challenges related to the networked collaborative design of factories layout and configuration. A pilot factory for the production of customized shoes is referred to throughout the paper as application example of the proposed methods and tools. © 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.

The CODERAVI Project is an example of integration between Industrial Design's disciplines and applied research in Virtual Reality in order to improve the quality of the new design, to try different layouts and to study the impact of changes of a washing-machine's interface by using an interactive virtual environment.

Design a new factory or re-organise an existing one in order to deal with new products and processes is a very complex and time consuming process. One of the main activities is the continuing interaction with the factory model to analyse its new functionality. The designer needs to "live" the environment to better understand it before its realisation. In this paper a new approach and the use of virtual reality and discrete events simulation are presented.

Some times, when you have the experience in a shop to buy shoes, it happens that you cannot find your preferred model. Starting from this simple problem, a new concept of shoes shop model comes out: the customer doesn’t use a pre-built set of product samples but he can digitally customize in the shop the shoes, try-on the shoes in augmented reality and then order their realization. This type of approach opens new ways to the shop concept moving from concept of mass production to the idea of mass customization. In this field ITIA is carrying on, inside the CEC-Made-Shoe Project, some research activities finalized to the support of the try-on process of customized shoes with two systems, called MagicMirror (MM) and FootGlove (FG), for the feelings of wearing shoes. In this article, last results and improvements to MM and FG prototypes are presented.