The Manufacturing Institute created a free Smart MFG app that allows anyone to be a creator using augmented reality (AR). On the app, users can design and manufacture a drone and "place” the drone in their current location, tilting the phone to see it move.
A few years ago, Rockwell Automation and PTC teamed up to create a smart manufacturing comic book app to introduce kids to the modern world of manufacturing. The free app combines a comic book-style design with augmented reality to give kids the feeling they’re inside a manufacturing plant solving real challenges in IIoT and additive manufacturing. The premise of the app is that superheroes are trying to build a drone, and app users need help performing repairs, making product design decisions, and retooling the factory.
This new approach is a great way to introduce young kids to the world of manufacturing by communicating with them in a language they already understand: apps and digital gaming.
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