Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : November 25, 2021 - November 26, 2021
The digital transformation is one of the main strategies in the focus of industry and society today. Within the concept of Industry 4.0 companies are trying to redesign their design-, production- and logistic- processes to meat the challenges of rapidly changing requirements and a growing complexity of products as well as services associated with these products. Powerful cloud-platforms enable the implementation of the internet of things (IOT) and a lot of companies provide so called IOT-hubs. These IOT-hubs are capable to integrate the data of billions of physical devices. These so called digital twins collect sensor data of the physical devices and in some cases a bidirectional communication is also possible.
The processing and analyzing of big data is a key feature of most of the IOT-solutions and is a prerequisite for predictive maintenance and other Industry 4.0 related concepts. But the aspect of visualization commonly is not part of these concepts. This paper shows an approach for a new immersive User Interface based on Mixed Reality that enables users to interact with real devices.
To implement this UI a new engineering gateway is established, which supports the creation of visualization models based on CAD models and closes the gap between engineering IT-systems like CAD- or PLM-systems and the IOT-hub. This concept will be able to address some use cases in the fields of production, education or technical service. Following the conversion of CAD files the architecture of the engineering gateway is described and the concept is presented based on an example, which demonstrates the process of technical inspections of real products as a closed loop.
