Cognitive Operator Support in the Manufacturing Industry - Three Tools to Help SMEs Select, Test and Evaluate Operator Support Technology

Technology aimed at providing cognitive support to operators in the manufacturing industry, is developing rapidly. Through technologies such as near-eye displays and augmented and mixed reality, the operator receives digital information and instructions to help the operator learn, and work efficiently and accurately. Companies, especially SMEs,...

Evaluating learning approaches for product assembly Using chunking of instructions, spatial augmented reality and display based work instructions.

Augmented Reality (AR) as an assistive technology is a promising tool for novice operators to learn assembly processes. This experiment compared an AR instruction method to display based electronic working instructions (EWI) for product assembly, to assess learning during the first repetitions of the products. In addition, two types of work...