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Mobile Devices Within Manufacturing Environments: A Bmw Applicability Study, Beshoy Morkos, Torsten Rilka, Joachim Taiber, Joshua D. Summers, Laine Mears, Georges Fadel

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With the growing need of mobile devices within manufacturing industries, new domains for their use in automotive OEMs have emerged. Advent technology has enabled the development of devices such as ultra-mobile personal computers that provide the function of a computer in a compact, mobile configuration and augmented reality (wearable mobile devices) in a production environment where hands free operation is essential. The use of mobile devices allows for more effective communication and data sharing/recording. This paper details BMW’s preliminary investigation and applicability study of implementing mobile devices within their manufacturing environment to view potential benefits that could be achieved. Manufacturing …