Increased Effectiveness and Safety of Product Assembly and Repair Processes

As part of its security solutions portfolio, SPACE assembles and configures tailored edge devices with sensors and actuators that are mainly focused on physical security applications. These devices feature an LTE (Long Term Evolution Model) modem, analog and digital I/O set, and a lightweight compute node hosting the IoT edge logic. SPACE develops a bespoke agent for these devices, which connects to the Guardian™ 2.0 PSIM platform for integrated surveillance rule-based incident response (e.g., triggering alarms, locking of doors and safes, lighting control etc.). Such devices have been installed and operate in several enterprise customers of SPACE (e.g., in the banking sector). However, their assembly and support are quite challenging, given the variety of components and configurations that they entail. SPACE is seeking solutions that can facilitate its engineers to carry out the assembly process in less time, yet increased quality and safety. In this direction, XR solutions (including VR/AR cyber-representations) could greatly benefit SPACE, through safe and effective training of engineers in the assembly process and through remote support to field workers in maintenance and repair tasks. Such solutions are already offered by SYN to several industrial end-users, yet existing solutions are not personalized to the knowledge and skills of the workers. This pilot will implement and demonstrate XR solutions for training and support of SPACE’s workers in the edge devices assembly, deployment, and repair processes. Most importantly, it will prove the importance and effectiveness of personalized instructions during assembly and repairs of edge devices, notably instructions that address two different skills levels (i.e., beginner, intermediate). To this end, the pilot will develop personalized content and workflows as part of two UCs.