Data will assist employees
A great many things are being attributed to digitalization. In particular, negative predictions for people's work and personal development in factories are becoming ever more frequent.
Will all employees in a digitalized Industry 4.0 factory really be running on autopilot in the near future? Will cognitive processes be increasingly automated? Will there still be any room at all for empathy for the work carried out in the smart factory?
We support our employees by means of HoloLens, especially in the training phase. Necessary information or work steps will be displayed in context. Using the integration of the product data, a digital twin is generated that comprises of digital components of the assembly sequence and becomes the finished product. In this way, the employee sees digitally what to install where and how in real life and how the product should look like – thus, the employee can regularly check the result in the quality control loop.
Industry 4.0 - Augmented Reality
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In Industry 4.0 Augmented Reality supports to visualize the assembly steps
Using HoloLens, we provide assembly personnel with important, contextualized information about the next working step in a given process. Gesture controls serve to acknowledge the individual process stages and initiate the next one.
But that isn’t the only support we offer during the assembly process. For example, tablets built into our assembly assistants help technicians by visualizing order data and the components that are to be installed, and can even play assembly videos for special designs.
Technicians pick the required parts, such as gear wheels and shafts, from the relevant compartments in their assembly cell. To ensure the correct individual parts are always used, the assembly assistant communicates with the rack system and Pick-by-Light highlights the corresponding compartment for workers. Once they have picked the part, they acknowledge the picking operation on the rack compartment.
Given that many hundreds of variants can be built at an assembly cell and staff can “jump” from cell to cell during peaks in order volume, this makes work a lot easier since, after all, it is impossible to tell at first glance how many teeth the required gear wheel has – 120, 125 or 140?
Augmented reality – complete overview
In the digital factory of the future, humans will be given optimum support in their work through information. Here – assembly instructions and order data for live assembly of MOVI-C®.
Information provides support – complete overview
Augmented Reality - full insight into the production process
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In the digital factory of the future, people will be optimally supported in their work by the provision of information. Here: assembly instructions and order data for the live assembly of MOVI-C® inverters.
In the digital factory of the future, humans will be given optimum support in their work through information.
Augmented reality is expanding the real world and enriching it with digital content
- Context-specific visual support for activities in maintenance, repairs and assembly
- Time savings by eliminating lengthy searches for information
- Cost savings by reducing training requirements and paper-based documentation
- Preventing errors and increasing quality through visual checking of work steps
- Global availability of experts via AR-based remote systems
