SensAR: Location- and context-related sensory data communicated via augmented reality

The advancing digitalisation and thus the approaches from the topic context Industry 4.0 are of great importance for the further development of production processes. In the future, these will be interlinked and digitally networked, resulting in a self-organisation of production. As a result, value chains can be further optimised and an individualisation of series products can be achieved. In addition, the customer will be more strongly integrated into the production process. This is to be demonstrated using a model factory at Bingen University of Applied Sciences. The core of the planned project is the design, construction and operation of a pilot plant based on cyber-physical systems (CPS). The CPS contain autonomously functioning, process engineering plant components, e.g. pumps or reactors, and can be combined depending on the target product. Within the scope of the project, the plant is to be structured on the basis of the model-driven design from the CPS, the behaviour of the plant is to be simulated, the process parameters are to be derived and the control software is to be generated. In contrast to existing test plants in the field of mechanical engineering, the focus of the model factory considered here is on a process in the environment of the chemical-pharmaceutical industry. The model factory thus lays a foundation to enable technology transfer from large-scale chemical-pharmaceutical industry to SMEs with Bingen University of Applied Sciences as the "catalyst". With the commissioning of the plant, SMEs can get to know, test and apply the new technologies from the Industry 4.0 context, as well as train and further educate their staff on them. With the support of the university, interested companies can thus embark on the path of digitalisation in production in a very targeted manner.