Augmented reality in support of Industry 4.0—Implementation challenges and success factors

Industrial augmented reality (AR) is an integral part of Industry 4.0 concepts, as it enables workers to access digital information and overlay that information with the physical world. While not being broadly adopted in some applications, the compound annual growth rate of the industrial AR market is projected to grow rapidly. Hence, it is important to understand the issues arising from implementation of AR in industry. This study identifies critical success factors and challenges for industrial AR implementation projects, based on an industry survey. The broadly used technology, organisation, environment (TOE) framework is used as a theoretical basis for the quantitative part of the questionnaire. A complementary qualitative part is used to underpin and extend the findings. It is found that, while technological aspects are of importance, organisational issues are more relevant for industry, which has not been reflected to the same extent in literature.University of Cambridg

Augmented reality in support of intelligent manufacturing – A systematic literature review

Industry increasingly moves towards digitally enabled ‘smart factories’ that utilise the internet of things (IoT) to realise intelligent manufacturing concepts like predictive maintenance or extensive machine to machine communication. A core technology to facilitate human integration in such a system is augmented reality (AR), which provides people with an interface to interact with the digital world of a smart factory. While AR is not ready yet for industrial deployment in some areas, it is already used in others. To provide an overview of research activities concerning AR in certain shop floor operations, a total of 96 relevant papers from 2011 to 2018 are reviewed. This paper presents the state of the art, the current challenges, and future directions of manufacturing related AR research through a systematic literature review and a citation network analysis. The results of this review indicate that the context of research concerning AR gets increasingly broader, especially by addressing challenges when implementing AR solutions.No funding was received

Primena tehnologije proširene stvarnosti za poboljšanje bezbednosti i efikasnosti rada u industrijskim okruženjima

This doctoral dissertation presents a system based on augmented reality (AR) technology for improvement of safety and efficiency at work in industrial environments. The AR system is a solution intended to assign work tasks to workers, provide necessary instructions for implementing them, and issue related occupational safety instructions directly at the workplace. At the same time, the system provides ability to record all the issued instructions and control their proper execution. It is formulated a model of a typical technological process broad enough that can be applied in different industrial environments. Based on that, the functionality and the structure of the intended AR system is determined. A practical implementation of the system is done, and its evaluation performed in two concrete electroenergetic industrial environments. In these implementations different AR technologies are used and tested. An evaluation of the proposed AR system is done, and it is concluded that the proposed AR system improves the human resources management and ensures performing of occupational safety measures