Manufacturers that are upgrading their operations often deal with costly older equipment that is difficult to digitize. Replacing or modifying these legacy machines sometimes is too expensive or would disrupt production or void a warranty. Manufacturers need a solution to enhance the capabilities of their legacy machines without having to replace them.
MxD is releasing a Project Call to guide and support manufacturers to automate Augmented Reality (AR) content generation process to input data for content generation and output AR content to various AR platforms with minimum human intervention.
The purpose of the development work is to automate authoring content from work instructions, allow human intervention when automation cannot complete 100% of the content, accommodate sharing data across multiple sources by integrating enterprise systems, and apply technology agnostic techniques to scale across multiple software and hardware systems or platforms.
Creating a comprehensive AR content generation solution that connects to enterprise software system (MES/PLM/QMS/etc.) for gathering content sources and integrates data processing to input real world work instructions, is a significant undertaking and requires collaboration with experts in various fields and domains such as, IT and data architectures and CAD/PLM conversions. This work will generate AR based work instructions with better accuracy and efficiency and empower teams to work with the most up-to-date information in an immersive and interactive environment.
This work will generate AR based work instructions with better accuracy and efficiency and empower teams to work with the most up-to-date information in an immersive and interactive environment.
It will also streamline the AR content development process and make it more efficient to continuously update and maintain AR content as work instructions change or new information becomes available.
AR technology has the potential to revolutionize manufacturing processes by providing visual guidance and information overlaid directly onto the physical environment to enhance worker productivity, improve overall efficiency, increase training efficacy, and provide real-time information.
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