In conjunction with the recent progress of VM R &D in TheNational CIMS Engineering Research Center, the connotation of VM and its architecture are discussed, and VM applications in a typical product development are introduced in this paper.

• 本文结合国家CIMS中心的最近研究进展，研讨了虚拟制造技术的内涵和体系结构，介绍了虚拟制造技术在典型产品开发中的应用。