XR for Industrial Training & Maintenance
L. Greci · 2022
With the introduction of Industry 4.0, traditional industrial manufacturing and processes are turning into “digital practices.” Products and procedures are becoming increasingly intricate due to the exponential rise of industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies, which have been introduced to improve and support processes and control systems. Workers will need new skills to address challenges that technology alone cannot answer because of this complexity. In the context of Industry 4.0, extended reality (XR) appears to be a promising solution for training and maintenance operations. Several studies have demonstrated the benefits of using XR for assembly, training, and maintenance tasks. However, they have all been described as specific use cases or devices. Before XR becomes widely used, the industry must overcome two-dimensional and three-dimensional data standardization challenges, authoring tools, new interfaces, a semantic understanding of real-world objects, tasks to perform, hardware solutions, user acceptance, and performance analysis.