Authors: Yuqiuge Hao, Rayko Toshev, Petri Helo
Cloud manufacturing is a service oriented, customer centric and demand-driven manufacturing model that enable manufacturers to face a dynamics business environment. Due to the products and the corresponding manufacturing processes get more and more complex, operatorsâ?? daily working life are also getting more difficult. Enhanced human-machine interaction is one of the core tasks for the success of next-generation manufacturing. Most of current research only focuses on the automation and flexibility features of cloud manufacturing, the interactions between human-machine and the value co-creation among operators are missing. Therefore, attentions are needed to the operators, and also their works. One promising approach is future factory concept, with the objective to reduce time and costs of machine control and maintenance. This paper describes the architecture of a system that uses the technologies of augmented reality, internet of things, and wearable technologies to support operatorsâ?? working and communication in discrete factories.