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Developing augmented reality capabilities for industry 4.0 small enterprises: Lessons learnt from a content authoring case study
journal contribution
posted on 2020-02-17, 15:59 authored by Kate Van-Lopik, Murray Sinclair, Richard Sharpe, Paul ConwayPaul Conway, Andrew WestAndrew WestAugmented reality (AR) has been proposed as a disruptive and enabling technology within the Industry
4.0 manufacturing paradigm. The complexity of the AR content creation process results in an inability for
Small Enterprise (SE)to create bespoke,flexibleARtraining support “in-house” and is a potential barrier to
industrial adoption of AR. Presently, AR content creation requires a range of specialist knowledge (e.g. 3D
modelling, interface design, programming and spatial tracking) and may involve infrastructure changes
(e.g. fiducial markers, cameras) and disruption to workflow. The research reported in this paper concerns
the development and deployment of an Augmented Repair Training Application (ARTA); a templatebased interface to support end user (shop floor) AR content creation. The proposed methodology and
implementation are discussed and evaluated in a real-world industrial case study in collaboration with
a Small Enterprise (SE) in the Used and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment sector (UEEE/WEEE).
The need for end user friendly templates is presented in the conclusion alongside further related work.
Funding
Adaptive Informatics for Intelligent Manufacturing (AI2M) : EP/K014137/1
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Computers in IndustryVolume
117Publisher
Elsevier BVVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Rights holder
© The AuthorPublisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2020-02-05Publication date
2020-02-12Copyright date
2020ISSN
0166-3615Publisher version
Language
- en