Industrial devices have virtual and physical components that interact with each other in a plethora of ways. We report on a system that enables operators to pose queries about physical, regulatory and functional relationships between components and visualizes responses as a holographic overlay, thereby enabling in-situ querying and rendering of information for “on-the-spot” decisions. Importantly, our approach is not only applicable to digitally integrated components but applies equally well to “simple” objects such as surfaces and workpieces, and the materials they are made of.
