With Augmented Reality increasing its visibility in fields like marketing, mobile and entertainment applications of the technology in industrial processes help our customer to improve the quality and maintainability of their products on a day-to-day level. We are proud that we have, ever since the inception of metaio, viewed the deployment of the technology in the industrial domain as one of the strongest use-cases.
Our core industrial product metaio Engineer is the only professional Augmented Reality solution on the market to satisfy the needs of industrial users with applications in production planning, virtual prototyping and maintenance of technical products – all based on 10 years of research and development in the industrial domain.
-the metaio team
Announcing the all new metaio Engineer 5.0
From Q4/2012 the all new metaio Engineer 5.0 will be available to our customers. We have received more than 150 feature requests from our customers and partners worldwide and have implemented more than 100 features in the new release. Developing the new version we have put special emphasis on the following features:
- Integrated high precision camera calibration
- New high accuracy off set calibration
- Improved handling of CAD files
- Support for measuring tasks between real and virtual objects
The flexible design of metaio Engineer allows for the deployment in production planning, logistic planning, verification tasks as well as assembly support.
Automotive Prototyping with Augmented Reality
Shorter product life cycles and the rising complexity in automotive design and prototyping makes virtual engineering a key success factor in the industry. Using Augmented Reality to compare virtual design data with actual prototypes can result in a lower time-to-market and can improve product quality.
Learn how our customers use metaio Engineer in their prototyping environment to support the following tasks:
- Superimposition of welding bolts
- Visual check of construction status
- Validation of flexible parts (tubing and wiring for example)
- Virtual correction and assembly analysis
- Assembly space analysis
The key benefits in this application domain include:
- Reduced training costs
- Reduced number of real prototypes
- Qualitative improvement of prototyping parts (e.g. vendor parts)
- Improved communication with designers, vendors and test engineers
Have look on the case study and learn more about automotive prototyping.
Retrofitting in the Shipbuilding Industry with Augmented Reality
In our latest case-study we are showcasing how MAN Diesel is using Augmented Reality to retrofit a 30 year old ship engine. In order to save time and cost as well as for a reliable project planning, the installation of the new engine is simulated in advance using metaio Engineer.
Based on photos of the current engine compartment Augmented Reality allows for the virtual positioning of the retrofitted engine and its mounting positions.
The key benefits in this application domain include:
- Improved estimate on project costs
- Virtual evaluation of design options
- Identification of savings
- Efficient communication between engineering, sales, management and customers
- Highly accelerated capturing of spatial limitations
We see a wide field of possible applications for the methodology on all measures of retro-fitting, re-powering and maintenance of ship engines.
metaio Engineer 5.0 – live at insideAR 2012
This year our famous annual exhibition insideAR – one of the biggest Augmented Reality events worldwide – will be the platform for presenting the brand new metaio Engineer 5.0. With a large number of new features this release takes another step to an all-in-one solution for highly- accurate AR analyses in almost every kind of engineering projects.
All our guests at insideAR will have the opportunity to see metaio Engineer solve day-to-day tasks in virtual engineering on real live use-cases.
Come to insideAR on October 1st and 2nd and take a look!
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