mobile devices

Augmented Reality has the potential to radically change both our private environment and the world of work over the coming years and decades. In a study, Prof. Michael E. Porter (Harvard Business School) and James E. Heppelmann, President and CEO of PTC, examine what Augmented Reality is, which technologies and applications will make them so important in the future, and how AR will be implemented in business practice. For example, augmented reality will change the way we learn, how we make decisions, or interact with the physical environment. But AR is not just another communication channel, but a completely new way to get in touch with people. Augmented reality is intended to bridge the gap between man’s limited mental capacity and receptivity and the ever-growing amount of data and insight that the virtual, digital product world provides.

Logistic processes at seaports and inland terminals play an important role for finished vehicle logistics. High flexibility and reactivity are required to cope with frequent deviations from original operational planning. This paper describes a concept for developing tools and systems to optimize planning and control processes. This includes a simulation backed planning system and a control system for order allocation using mobile devices and their GPS as well as sensor data.

Today the developments within the area of mobile business and mobile commerce influence marketing, sales and maintenance of products and services to a high degree. On the other hand mobile technologies offer new possibilities like: personalisation, localisation, interactivity, ubiquity, comfort of transactions and emotionalisation. But how can these new applications of mobile business be supported in order to structure a company’s internal processes in a more effective and efficient way as well as to increase the customers’ acceptance and customer orientation? A promising possibility is the usage of innovative mobile devices and the investment in new technologies, e.g. Augmented Reality, to meet these demands.

This article describes a new IT system, which provides all process relevant information to the production process involved employees. The access to the company data is done online by using mobile devices (PDA, tablet PC, wearable PC etc.). The employees receive context sensitive all required information via wireless transmission (WLAN etc.). The type of information, its representation and the system’s functionality depends on the role and the function of the corresponding user within the company.