1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.2 Problem of the production data integration process
2 State of the art of Augmented Reality for maintenance of machine tools
3 Aim and approach
3.1 Aim of the work
3.2 Approach of the work
4 Analysis of the AR based maintenance
4.1 Definition of the AR based maintenance process
4.2 Required AR based maintenance data
AR system | Maintenance engineer |
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Device type Display properties Camera properties Camera image properties User interaction methods Tracking type Label properties Visualization specifications Interfaces to external systems Data types of maintenance information | Instructions for (dis-)assembly of machine components Handling of devices Descriptions of processes such as cleaning and welding Danger warnings External systems and data, e.g. CNC, MES Actions for error handling |
4.3 Requirements to the creation process of the AR based documentation
5 Method for the efficient integration process of production data
5.1 Integration process of production data into the AR system
5.2 Design of the AR maintenance system architecture
6 Verification of the developed method
6.1 Aim and approach of the verification
6.2 Sample implementation of the developed method
6.3 Evaluation of the sample implementation
Typical previous process | New developed process |
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Several manual export and import processes of the CAD model Additional DCC application for polygon reduction and format conversion Additional authoring system and process for creating the AR based documentation and extend the 3D model Several manual export and import processes of the AR based documentation data Manual process to add existing data from external production systems Manual update of the maintenance documentation data | Automatic integration of the CAD model into the PDM system Automatic process for polygon reduction and format conversion Existing documentation system for generating the AR based documentation and CAD system for extending the 3D model Automatic integration and deployment of the AR based documentation data with the PDM system Integration of existing data from external production systems (online) via interfaces Automatic update of the maintenance documentation data |