Daniel Eckertz successfully completed his doctorate on the topic of "Tools for planning and preparing augmented reality-based validation in product development".
Summary:
The increasing individualization of products in combination with the time and cost pressure on global markets leads to new challenges for product development. For successful product development, an early and continuous validation with the customers is of enormous importance. Here, the visualization technology Augmented Reality (AR) offers great potential for increasing efficiency. Products can be experienced and tested at an early stage with AR and be validated across locations. However, the technological complexity of AR and the accompanying lack of methodological support prevent many companies from exploiting the potentials.
A toolset is therefore developed for the planning and preparation of AR-based validation in product development. The toolset first supports the identification of individual potentials of AR as a validation tool. Subsequently, a demand-oriented configuration of the AR system to be used is enabled. Based on this, support tools are provided for the low-effort development of individual AR validation software. A high-level procedure model provides the systematic frame and guides the planning and preparation.
The application and evaluation of the toolset are carried out exemplarily based on a shelving control unit, which is developed individually for a customer.
