Augmented Reality Application in Manufacturing Industry: Maintenance and Non-destructive Testing (NDT) Use Cases (original) (raw)
Review of augmented reality applications in manufacturing engineering
2016
Article history: Received 26 November 2016 Received in revised form 27 December 2016 Accepted 29 December 2016 Available online 30 December 2016 Augmented Reality is one of the most significant and remarkable trends in the manufacturing field, where the ability to test and evaluate products in the real world environment before deploy it to market, makes AR as an important factor in manufacturing development process, however, AR researches still few and most of it not up-to-date, because AR applications is very limited in manufacturing field. This paper gives a pilot review on the most applications of Augmented Reality in manufacturing engineering, in order to urge researchers and Augmented Reality scholars to focus and study them, hopefully to expand Augmented Reality applications in manufacturing. This paper focus on giving simple idea about the main points that Augmented Reality covers in relation to the manufacturing stages.
Augmented reality technology in the manufacturing industry: A review of the last decade
IISE Transactions
The aim of this article is to analyze and review the scientific literature relating to the application of Augmented Reality (AR) technology in industry. AR technology is becoming increasingly diffuse, due to the ease of application development and the widespread use of hardware devices (mainly smartphones and tablets) able to support its adoption. Today, a growing number of applications based on AR solutions are being developed for industrial purposes. Although these applications are often little more than experimental prototypes, AR technology is proving highly flexible and is showing great potential in numerous areas (e.g., maintenance, training/learning, assembly or product design) and in industrial sectors (e.g., the automotive, aircraft or manufacturing industries). It is expected that AR systems will become even more widespread in the near future. The purpose of this review is to classify the literature on AR published from 2006 to early 2017, to identify the main areas and sectors where AR is currently deployed, describe the technological solutions adopted, as well as the main benefits achievable with this kind of technology.
Augmented Reality (AR) Application in Manufacturing Encompassing Quality Control and Maintenance
International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, 2019
Augmented Reality (AR) systems present a technological platform that allows a harmonious integration of the real and virtual worlds, structured with endless capabilities in its application. With the rise of information technology, AR has made a significant contribution to industrial applications, namely: medicine, aviation, manufacturing, etc. This paper aims to provide dipper insightful on AR technology by investigating the current state-of-the-art of AR technology usage in the manufacturing industry encompassing quality control and maintenance. It describes how AR technology has been integrated into quality control and maintenance, current and available AR devices in use, and future research direction.
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Proceedings of Maintenance Performance Measurement and Management (MPMM) Conference 2014, 2014
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Augmented Reality: Transforming Manufacturing in the Industry 4.0 Era
IGI Global, 2025
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Proceedings of GSGS'20 : 5th Gamification & Serious Game Symposium, September-November 2020, Switzerland, 2020
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Augmented Reality-Based Framework Supporting Visual Inspection for Automotive Industry
Applied System Innovation
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Applied Sciences, 2022
Augmented Reality (AR) has gradually become a mainstream technology enabling Industry 4.0 and its maturity has also grown over time. AR has been applied to support different processes on the shop-floor level, such as assembly, maintenance, etc. As various processes in manufacturing require high quality and near-zero error rates to ensure the demands and safety of end-users, AR can also equip operators with immersive interfaces to enhance productivity, accuracy and autonomy in the quality sector. However, there is currently no systematic review paper about AR technology enhancing the quality sector. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) to conclude about the emerging interest in using AR as an assisting technology for the quality sector in an industry 4.0 context. Five research questions (RQs), with a set of selection criteria, are predefined to support the objectives of this SLR. In addition, different research databases are used for the paper ...
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2014
Augmented reality (AR) is a well-known technology that can be exploited to provide mass-market users an effective and customizable support in a large spectrum of personal applications, by overlapping computer-generated hints to the real world. Mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are playing a key role in the exponential growth of this kind of solutions. Nonetheless, there exists some application domains that just started to take advantage from the AR systems. Maintenance, repair, and assembly have been considered as strategic fields for the application of the AR technology from the 1990s, but often only specialists using ad hoc hardware were involved in limited experimental tests. Nowadays, AR-based maintenance and repair procedures are available also for end-users on consumer electronics devices. This paper aims to explore new challenges and opportunities of this technology, by also presenting the software framework that is being developed in the EASE-R 3 project by exploiting reconfigurable AR procedures and tele-assistance to overcome some of the limitations of current solutions.