Stakeholders’ Roles
KUKA (industry & pilot owner), SUPSI (Human DT Provider), ATB (Industrial Solution Integrator).
Rapid Human Centric AI-Enabled Product Design
Motivation & Description
One motivation to adopt XR in Industry 5.0 technologies is to bridge the gap between physical and digital spaces, enabling better communication, collaboration, and decision making. Furthermore, the complexity of assembly lines and the infinite number of product variations create challenges in manufacturing, such as high levels of rejected parts and low part availability. To the rescue, XR5.0 technologies can reduce complexity, optimise operations, and create a sustainable and human-centric future. KUKA aims to leverage XR5.0 technologies to enhance productivity, efficiency, sustainability and competitiveness. The emphasis is on bridging the gap between physical and digital spaces, providing immersive training experiences, and utilizing AI - powered solutions to address challenges in manufacturing and workforce dynamics.
KPIs
KPIs: >30% reduction on physical testing, >25% reduction on consumption of test parts/waste, >50% faster troubleshooting.
Use Cases
This Use Case will adopt various integrated XR5.0 results to reduce the complexity of the assembly lines and enable early detection of possible faults directly on the production line. The solution involves digitally embedding the products to be manufactured and test parts in the real plant, allowing employees to see how the product fits into the machine/plant and how it behaves. This reduces the need for trial parts and enables early detection of possible faults directly on the production line through the project’s active and generative learning models. Human DT technology will be utilised to provide real-time personalised feedback on production quality. This UC will leverage the XR5.0’s HMIs to optimise the human machine interaction and communication. XR5.0 will enable KUKA to reduce the complexity of assembly lines, improve production efficiency, and provide a more sustainable approach to operations.
This UC will tackle the challenges in robot-automated assembly, including the complexity of the assembly process and the need for skilled workers. XR5.0’s AI and XAI solutions will detect and recognise the influence that different product variants have on the plant, providing direct information via the XR environment to employees on which parts of the complex systems are relevant and uncritical. To this direction, generative AI technology will be employed to produce product variants and their cyber-representations for visualisation in the XR space. Moreover, virtual commissioning and augmented reality technology will be utilised to improve the efficiency and productivity of the assembly process, concluding to mitigate the shortage of skilled workers, reduce the consumption of test parts and waste, and provide a more sustainable approach to operations.