Design and development of product – service system based on augmented reality for machine maintenance

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Αγγελόπουλος, Ιωάννης
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Angelopoulos, Ioannis
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: 2021
• Θέματα: Augmented reality; Maintenance; Engineered-to-Order (ETO); Product-Service System (PSS); Επαυξημένη πραγματικότητα; Συντήρηση; Καλούπια; Βιομηχανία; Συστήματα προϊόντων - υπηρεσιών

Maintenance is a demanding set of tasks performed on industrial equipment. Technicians are obliged to carry printed manuals, in order to perform all the necessary corrective actions. Moreover, there are cases where the technician needs to communicate with an engineer or even call specialized personnel in order to accomplish complex maintenance tasks. Technological advances in mobile technologies and mixed reality, have enabled engineers over the world to produce useful applications for providing all the needed instructions and communication with the use of any smart device, just by registering 3D content on the real environment. Augmented Reality is a cutting-edge digital technology facilitating engineers in reducing the cognitive load of technicians. Further to that, with the utilization of AR the threshold for minimum special skills and/or training is also reduced. Taking into consideration the advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), expert engineers are capable of establishing sufficient communication channels with the shopfloor technicians, in an attempt to provide to provide remote guidance. As a result, the total maintenance time of industrial equipment can be further reduced and simplified. The purpose of this research work is the design and development of an AR based remote and smart maintenance framework for Engineered to Order (ETO) equipment. The framework can be realized as a mobile AR application, which is provided to the clients from the OEM as a Service, thus creating a Product Service System (PSS).