Answers to questions facing today's reliability & maintenance professionals department | on the floor TRAINING INSTITUTE For augmented reality to make a difference, we need to develop "plant-floor friendly and affordable" applications that enable and enhance effective and safe reliability and maintenance functions. Augmented Reality is In Your Future Dr. Klaus M. Blache Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) Q A What can we expect from augmented reality in maintenance? The future is about connectivity between people and machines and machines to machines (M2M). As companies move toward Industry 4.0, there will be more application such as prescriptive maintenance (applying advanced analytics to assets to better determine when maintenance will be required and automatically generating the required work order), augmented reality (where real-world images are enhanced by computer technology that overlays digital information), and machine learning/artificial intelligence (systems identifying and learning from data patterns from data to improve decision making). Machine learning is a type of artificial MARCH 2020 EP2003onthefloor.indd 23 intelligence that is self-learning and enabled by algorithms. Artificial intelligence is much broader in scope and attempts to emulate human thinking. For more than 20 years, we've watched the first-down line (TV football) that moves up and down the field as an offensive drive progresses. That's an early example of an augmented-reality (AR) application. About the same time (1998), NASA used AR for spacecraft navigation. There were some earlier industrial and gaming applications, but it was the 2016 Pokemon Go game craze that put AR in the public spotlight. An April 2019 Gartner Inc. forecast stated that, "by 2020, 100-million consumers will shop in AR online and in store." (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/ press-releases/2019-04-01). AR technology EDE N I A R T BY TH T S E B AND FETYIN A G S L RA IN RICA ELECTTENANCE T MAIN Compliance Keep the workplace safe from electrical hazards NFPA 70E ® 2018 Electrical Safety Training For enrollment info call us at 877-594-3156 www.avotraining.com EFFICIENTPLANTMAG.COM | 23 2/19/20 8:03 AMhttp://www.avotraining.com https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-04-01-gartner-says-100-million-consumers-will-shop-in-augme http://www.avotraining.com http://www.EFFICIENTPLANTMAG.COM