Recycling and retrofitting for industrial equipment based on augmented reality
Dimitris Mourtzis, John Angelopoulos, Nikolaos Panopoulos
Abstract
In the competitive era of industrial automation, enterprises are struggling to maintain their competitiveness, through modernization of their manufacturing systems, while trying to meet market demands. Modernization of manufacturing systems refers to the replacement of manufacturing equipment with state-of-the-art machinery. A good alternative is the act of retrofitting existing machinery, by adding new features. The challenge arising by retrofitting is the selection of the suitable features to be added. This paper presents a conceptual framework to assist the decision-making process, supported by an online network and based on Augmented Reality for retrofitting and recycling machinery, aiming at increasing components’ lifecycle.