Adaptive on-the-job assistance and guiding personalised to workers' profiles and skills thorugh Augmented Reality interfaces

The introduction of automation which is adapted to workers profiles increases workers perfornance and satisfaction.

Adaptive automation are introduced after the corresponding safety risk assessment which guarantees a safe productive environment. Such adaptiveness, new ways of human interaction (commanding through natural speaking and gestures) and assistance and guidance in the productive tasks via augmented reality make factory easier to interact with and more satisfactory to workers.

Active safety features are included to avoid risks in the collaboration of workers and automation.

The operator has a broad decision basis as well as a suggestion of a DSS (Decision Support System), which will improve the manufacturing system. Operator interaction will be done by a new developed HMI (Human Machine Interface) providing the huge amount of data in a reliable manner.

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The Rule Editor and the Test Front-End are Android apps allowing factory users to interact with the ZHQ system

The smart mold provides Human Machine Interaction at several levels:

• Production operators: real-time data and alerts, both at the work cell level, enterprise and cloud
• Production managers and moldmakers: historical data analysis

For end user Ferram, it is expected that the experiment will increase in the turnover and in the number of new jobs created. Outcomes of the experiment will allow Ferram to develop a new generation of water quenches which allow for heat treatment of profiles that are hard or even impossible to cool down with existing water quenches today. This will bring a competitive advantage to Ferram and thus increase the number of customers.