Augmented Reality supported Product Design towards Industry 4.0: a Teaching Factory paradigm

Nowadays, product design and evaluation are important phases of product manufacturing and thus it is important to develop new ways to effectively introduce young engineers to that phases. In the new Industry 4.0 environment, the training and introduction of young engineers in the product design and evaluation phases are facilitated through advanced visualization technologies. Towards that end, this paper presents an approach for applying advanced visualization techniques in product design using Augmented Reality (AR) that aims to be utilized by engineer students to envision the product design, interact with it, evaluate the current design and improve it. The developed system is applied in a radio-controlled car design.