| Summary: | As manufacturing moves towards the 4th Industrial Revolution, new technologies gradually become integrated in new applications. Industry 4.0, as it is called, affects different levels of the existing business models and approaches, ranging from high level management to the core of production: the shopfloor. The last decades, production was leaning towards higher automatization, replacing humans with automation in tasks that were repetitive and required high precision and/ or high loads. This made the new technologies be perceived as a threat for operators.
However, new technologies also aim to enhance the capabilities of the human. New wireless networks allow information to be available everywhere in high speed, connecting multiple sources. Exploiting information in a meaningful and easy-to-perceive way renders the operator capable of receiving information from various sources so as to improve decision making and support him in operations. Augmented reality proposes a new way of visualizing information (text, geometries, data) in the users field of view, enhancing his environment.
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