Case Study of Using Virtual and Augmented Reality in Industrial System Monitoring

An equipment monitoring system is responsible for analytical services that assist the personnel in equipment diagnostics, fault prediction, and post-analysis. In this work, we consider a case study of using virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) for effective analytics delivery to the production equipment personnel. The reference analytical services for our study come from our pilot development with metalcutting industry in Russia. The two service models are proposed: (a) Situation Center and (b) Virtual Assistant. We identify the VR/AR advantages compared with the traditional style of visualizing analytical services on computer screens. Our study is supported with prototype implementation of the VR/AR system for analytics delivery to the personnel.