Title
Mobile Service Technician 4.0 - Knowledge-Sharing Solutions For Industrial Field Maintenance
Abstract
With the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, many work tasks are becoming knowledge intensive. At the forefront of the change are workers that are already mobile, working in the field with customers. We describe the human-centred design process that resulted in the Mobile Service Technician 4.0 concept. The concept illustrates how industrial field maintenance work could benefit from knowledge-sharing solutions based on Industry 4.0. The solutions utilize industrial internet, virtual and augmented reality as well as wearable technologies to improve mobile service technicians' daily work performance and work satisfaction. The Mobile Service Technician 4.0 concept illustrates the user experience of future maintenance work: feeling competent, feeling connected to the work community, and feeling of success and achievement by being better prepared for maintenance visits, getting situationally relevant support in maintenance operations, sharing knowledge with peers, and making maintenance reports effortless.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
INTERACTION DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURES
Industrial field maintenance, knowledge sharing, user experience, augmented reality, virtual reality, wearables, social media, user studies
Field
DocType
Volume
Technician,World Wide Web,User experience design,Social media,Virtual reality,Knowledge sharing,Wearable computer,Computer science,Knowledge management,Mobile service,Augmented reality
Journal
38
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
38
1826-9745
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
20