Integrated and adaptive AR maintenance and shop-floor rescheduling

By virtue of the Digitalization of Manufacturing Systems, the importance of interconnecting multiple digital systems is becoming a necessity. By extension, the need for connecting the shop-floor technician to the rest of the production system is highlighted more than ever. Internet and Communication technologies (ICT) may connect the technician with data collected from the machine sensors, knowledge repositories and integrated production software. Mobile devices offer highly usable interfaces that can be exploited to involve the operator in this process, digitalize their inputs and also visualize machine information on top of the physical system through Augmented Reality (AR). Towards that direction, an application that allows the operator to monitor machine status and call event-driven AR remote machine maintenance and rescheduling based on maintenance time estimation is developed. The framework is tested and validated in a laboratory-base machine shop. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Automated summary

The importance of interconnecting multiple digital systems through digitalization of manufacturing systems is highlighted. Internet and Communication technologies enable the connection of shop-floor technicians with machine sensors data, and mobile devices with Augmented Reality technology can be used for monitoring and maintenance purposes.