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Extended Reality Product Configuration for Flexible Production Systems: A Case Study

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Manufacturing companies are increasingly interested in customer-involved product configurators due to their capacity to better meet customers’ needs. The capacity of eXtended Reality (XR) product configurators to enhance user experience makes them highly useful for realizing the concept of human-centric design for mass customization. We present a case study of an XR Configuration System (XRCS) compatible with a flexible production system. The aim of this work was the development of an interactive and user-friendly XRCS. The XRCS allows product configurability and customization while considering production and sustainability information. Moreover, it allows to send the final configuration to the production system in real-time. For this purpose, the XRCS has been integrated into the full-scale production demonstrator located at Fraunhofer Italia’s Area for Research and iNnovative Applications (ARENA).

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Regional Development Fund (Fondo Europeo di Sviluppo Regionale FESR Alto Adige 2014–2020) under the Grant Agreement n. EFRE1135 CUP B52F20001530009 (project SMART-Pro).

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    Ilaria Di Blasio, Julius Emig, Elias Niederwieser, Dietmar Siegele & Dominik T. Matt

  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Università 5, 39100, Bolzano, Italy

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Ilaria Di Blasio and Julius Emig contributed equally to the work by drafting the method, implementing, and testing the XRCS. Elias Niederwieser reviewed the manuscript. Dietmar Siegele worked on the method and reviewed the manuscript. Dominik T. Matt supervised the development.

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  1. University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

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  2. University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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  3. CNR-STIIMA, Lecco, Italy

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Di Blasio, I., Emig, J., Niederwieser, E., Siegele, D., Matt, D.T. (2023). Extended Reality Product Configuration for Flexible Production Systems: A Case Study. In: De Paolis, L.T., Arpaia, P., Sacco, M. (eds) Extended Reality. XR Salento 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14219. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43404-4_35

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