SIAM

An essential part of machine manufacturing is the interplay between construction and production. Often this connection leaks information in both ways: the construction team changes details in the last minute, while in production things are mounted in a different order or way as it was intended.

Within the project SIAM (Seamless Interoperability of Assistive Modules in the Digital Factory)

a novel 3D documentation system is developed which utilizes new human machine interaction concepts on the example of virtual sticky notes.

It is an industrial grade AR based documentation system extending the current state-of-the-art by the integration of additional tracking modalities and the intuitive editing possibilities for the user.

Using different tracking techniques the virtual notes can be attached to physical objects and are displayed on a tablet in an augmented reality way. The main intention is to strengthen the interplay between construction and production of industrial machines as the virtual notes are synchronized with a production lifecycle management system.

The main features of the system are:

• multi-modality based tracking
• accuracies of +/- 0.5cm in a 5mx5mx5m cube
• live view of the tablet’s camera showing sticky notes as augmented reality overlay
• versatile HTML based user interface
• flat information hierarchy with tags
• synchronization with the 3D database of a production lifecycle management (PLM) system

Project name:
Seamless Interoperability of Assistive Modules in the Digital Factory

Funding:    
FFG – IKT der Zukunft

Duration:    
01.10.2015-30.09.2017