Human-machine interaction is opening up new fields that are improving productivity day by day. Industrial augmented reality (industrial augmented reality) provides a 3D interface where you can visualise and control the functions of your factory at any time and place..
The augmented reality in industry, plus the data produced by the factory during the production process, enriches the interaction between men and machines, making it more intuitive, efficient and safe, as well as an essential support in the ecosystem of the work instructions of your factory.
The main idea of augmented reality and visual guidance in industry is the overlay of virtual visual and audio elements on the real environment of different factory elements. When you interact with these virtual elements, (e.g. by operating a lever), you can materialise that change in the real factory component.
Thanks to this system, you can create environments of different assets of your factory to know their real behaviour. For example, a virtual gear system based on a real one, with physical properties such as friction or oxidation, to study the lifetime of your parts.
Of course, since you can simulate interactions in the virtual world, you don't have to worry about the consequences for your production in case of errors.
You can create test environments (sandboxes) tailored to the skills and experience of each employee for specific training.
Don't worry about making an irreversible change to your industrial equipment. With augmented reality, you can make a mistake without consequences.
You can also control the functions of your factory from anywhere, as if you were in front of the industrial equipment you intend to manipulate.
Maintenance tasks are significantly simplified by immediately detecting anomalies in your industrial equipment.
The same interface can be manipulated by several people, increasing co-enrichment and reducing errors in real environments.
The user has to feel comfortable and free to move, to be able to expand horizons in exploration through an intuitive interface.
All the technological work and complexity has to fall on the equipment, precisely so that the user feels that it is simple.
Applications must combine three layers of interaction: what is perceived in the real world, additional information and the augmented world resulting from the above.
Scanning should be intuitive, but the user should focus on the industrial task set by the scanning objective (maintenance, training, etc.).
The user must be able to provide his or her own feedback, because in a simulation the experience is different for everyone.
An operator scans a machine with a tablet camera and if a part is missing or incorrectly positioned, a warning is triggered.
Simulate the gaps where each operator will have to handle certain machinery to improve the ergonomic aspects of the environment.
Provide tested virtual prototypes of products to customers, so that they can interact with them before they go into production.
Provide real-time visual information in the manual section of the assembly line, so that operators can follow instructions from any angle.
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