WILLBÖ: Innovation in Industry 4.0 with Mixed Reality
Industry 4.0 has become mainstream in the industrial economy, especially during the last few years. The digital transformation and the change it brings is so great that many refer to it as the fourth industrial revolution.
At this stage, digital technologies are responsible for linking the physical and digital worlds, enabling devices and systems to collaborate with each other to create a smart industry that blurs the barriers between people and machines.
How to achieve solutions that maximize the full potential of this technology? How to empower the workforce?
Willbö Holographic Model Tool is an application aimed at visualizing your projects while maximizing the potential of mixed reality through the use of HoloLens 2.
WILLBÖ is an engineering and consulting company based in Vigo and Mumbai, whose focus is the provision of engineering services at an international level for the marine and industrial sector.
WILLBÖ was faced with a scenario in which the shipbuilding industry needed to radically transform digitally to address challenges such as efficiency, productivity and sustainability.
Therefore, we started with the challenge of ensuring that the tool would maintain geometries and metadata in the format WILLBÖ used to export to HoloLens, as the variability of formats used in shipbuilding does not facilitate the standardization of a solution.
The process
To meet the challenge, the format loaded on the HoloLens 2 had to be graphically optimized to have the best immersive experience on board.
This results in an application that provides access to different functionalities, such as the visualization of models in design mode and in the real environment, the definition of inspection points, the validation of measurements and on-side elements, etc.
Application development with mixed reality.
And, not to be left alone there, the voice command capabilities of HoloLens 2 have been taken advantage of, in order to activate most of the functionalities in spoken form and thus achieve a faster and more fluid interaction.
In addition, it allows capturing the real environment in point cloud format using a 3D LiDAR scanner for later visualization.
Application development with mixed reality.
Application for visualizing naval projects with HoloLens 2.
“Being able to visualize the model metadata with its properties in HoloLens has been a key point, as well as being able to export high polygonization models. We really appreciate the fact that everything has been integrated into our work pipeline, because the adaptation curve has been shorter. We also appreciate the fact that Azure Files makes it easier to share projects between our employees and end customers.
Julián Fontela, Business Development at WILLBÖ
Resultados Concretos
- Facilitates better usability of the installation.
- Has applications in various phases of the construction process.
- Increases the possible solutions to a problem.
- Reduces the economic cost of its solution on site, in addition to reducing its deadline implications.
- Facilitates the final design to meet customer requirements, seeking optimization and integration at each stage of the value chain.
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