Augmented reality and the future of maintenance

Abstract

This paper addresses the use of Augmented Reality (AR) systems to improve maintenance technicians’ performance from training stage to daily interventions. The concept of AR born in industry and since then has being developed by scientists to fulfill the real demands of operational teams. It will be presented the most relevant industrial AR projects and their results, as well as others that significantly contributed for the development of AR and their implementation on industrial environments, namely the progress from marker-based systems to model-based systems. Nowadays, industrial AR systems are not a faraway utopia.