AR-based training and support of assembly workers in automobile industry

In this paper, we present an interactive and context sensitive AR-system, which provides workers at the assembly line with all necessary information. Each assembly step of the components and the used tools is displayed using animations, 3D-objects and texts and inserted into the workers field of view via a small HMS. An corresponding Ar-system is used for the education and training of new workers. The complex steps of assembly processes are displayed using the same 3D-objects and texts. Thus staff working at manufacturing systems or assembly lines can be trained with a low degree of personal supervision. Every worker is able to assembly every structural component or automobile part at any time.