MARMA: A Mobile Augmented Reality Maintenance Assistant for Fast-Track Repair Procedures in the Context of Industry 4.0
The integration of exponential technologies in the traditional manufacturing processes constitutes a noteworthy trend of the past two decades, aiming to reshape the industrial environment. This kind of digital transformation, which is driven by the Industry 4.0 initiative, not only affects the indiv...
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| author | Fotios K. Konstantinidis Ioannis Kansizoglou Nicholas Santavas Spyridon G. Mouroutsos Antonios Gasteratos |
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| description | The integration of exponential technologies in the traditional manufacturing processes constitutes a noteworthy trend of the past two decades, aiming to reshape the industrial environment. This kind of digital transformation, which is driven by the Industry 4.0 initiative, not only affects the individual manufacturing assets, but the involved human workforce, as well. Since human operators should be placed in the centre of this revolution, they ought to be endowed with new tools and through-engineering solutions that improve their efficiency. In addition, vivid visualization techniques must be utilized, in order to support them during their daily operations in an auxiliary and comprehensive way. Towards this end, we describe a user-centered methodology, which utilizes augmented reality (AR) and computer vision (CV) techniques, supporting low-skilled operators in the maintenance procedures. The described mobile augmented reality maintenance assistant (MARMA) makes use of the handheld’s camera and locates the asset on the shop floor and generates AR maintenance instructions. We evaluate the performance of MARMA in a real use case scenario, using an automotive industrial asset provided by a collaborative manufacturer. During the evaluation procedure, manufacturer experts confirmed its contribution as an application that can effectively support the maintenance engineers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5d57a096860e4a38ba8946370565d3352023-11-21T01:45:40ZengMDPI AGMachines2075-17022020-12-01848810.3390/machines8040088MARMA: A Mobile Augmented Reality Maintenance Assistant for Fast-Track Repair Procedures in the Context of Industry 4.0Fotios K. Konstantinidis0Ioannis Kansizoglou1Nicholas Santavas2Spyridon G. Mouroutsos3Antonios Gasteratos4Department of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 12 Vas. Sophias, GR-671 00 Xanthi, GreeceDepartment of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 12 Vas. Sophias, GR-671 00 Xanthi, GreeceDepartment of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 12 Vas. Sophias, GR-671 00 Xanthi, GreeceDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria, GR-671 00 Xanthi, GreeceDepartment of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 12 Vas. Sophias, GR-671 00 Xanthi, GreeceThe integration of exponential technologies in the traditional manufacturing processes constitutes a noteworthy trend of the past two decades, aiming to reshape the industrial environment. This kind of digital transformation, which is driven by the Industry 4.0 initiative, not only affects the individual manufacturing assets, but the involved human workforce, as well. Since human operators should be placed in the centre of this revolution, they ought to be endowed with new tools and through-engineering solutions that improve their efficiency. In addition, vivid visualization techniques must be utilized, in order to support them during their daily operations in an auxiliary and comprehensive way. Towards this end, we describe a user-centered methodology, which utilizes augmented reality (AR) and computer vision (CV) techniques, supporting low-skilled operators in the maintenance procedures. The described mobile augmented reality maintenance assistant (MARMA) makes use of the handheld’s camera and locates the asset on the shop floor and generates AR maintenance instructions. We evaluate the performance of MARMA in a real use case scenario, using an automotive industrial asset provided by a collaborative manufacturer. During the evaluation procedure, manufacturer experts confirmed its contribution as an application that can effectively support the maintenance engineers.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/8/4/88maintenanceaugmented realityindustrial shop floor automation |
| spellingShingle | Fotios K. Konstantinidis Ioannis Kansizoglou Nicholas Santavas Spyridon G. Mouroutsos Antonios Gasteratos MARMA: A Mobile Augmented Reality Maintenance Assistant for Fast-Track Repair Procedures in the Context of Industry 4.0 Machines maintenance augmented reality industrial shop floor automation |
| title | MARMA: A Mobile Augmented Reality Maintenance Assistant for Fast-Track Repair Procedures in the Context of Industry 4.0 |
| title_full | MARMA: A Mobile Augmented Reality Maintenance Assistant for Fast-Track Repair Procedures in the Context of Industry 4.0 |
| title_fullStr | MARMA: A Mobile Augmented Reality Maintenance Assistant for Fast-Track Repair Procedures in the Context of Industry 4.0 |
| title_full_unstemmed | MARMA: A Mobile Augmented Reality Maintenance Assistant for Fast-Track Repair Procedures in the Context of Industry 4.0 |
| title_short | MARMA: A Mobile Augmented Reality Maintenance Assistant for Fast-Track Repair Procedures in the Context of Industry 4.0 |
| title_sort | marma a mobile augmented reality maintenance assistant for fast track repair procedures in the context of industry 4 0 |
| topic | maintenance augmented reality industrial shop floor automation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/8/4/88 |
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