Manual assembly of large size industrial products is a complex task, accompanied by paper-based instruction manuals. As a result, using such static documentation increases the cognitive load of workers and requires frequent travelling between the assembly unit and the tool magazine.
The ARAG solution, replaces paper-based instructions with holograms, which are displayed to the technician’s field of view (FOV) through a head-mounted display (HMD), overlaid on the real product. Further utilizing HMD’s capabilities, user is free to interact and manipulate the 3D objects, by altering their position, pose and scaling.
| Country: | FR |
| Address: | Culoz 01350 |
The ARAG solution reduces the cognitive load, and increases the technician’s satisfaction, while the precise guidance assures optimality and correctness in task execution. Furthermore, with the proposed solution training time is minimized as well as inspection by experts, also reducing manufacturing times and maximizing resource utilization.
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ARAG solution was piloted in a factory of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). The validation results reflected the potential of the solution, technicians’ acceptability to solutions specifically designed for supporting them in complex operations. Recent studies have shown that gamification tools can be utilized in industrial AR solutions for reducing technicians’ learning curve and increasing their cognition (Tsourma et al., 2019).