6 industrial metaverse use cases for manufacturing | TechTarget
Summary
The industrial metaverse can potentially help manufacturing companies improve their facility design, maintenance and training, though adoption of the technology is not yet widespread. Employees can use industrial metaverse technology to create a virtual layout of a factory before building it or learn how to use potentially dangerous equipment without risking injury. "I can lay out a factory floor and test and learn before building in the real world, and once built, I could use IoT and edge computing to optimize it over time," MacDonald said. While predictive maintenance is possible without the industrial metaverse, IMV technology enables users to view data for not only one machine but for all the processes and systems that are affected by that machine undergoing maintenance, said Ryan Martin, senior research director for industry and manufacturing at ABI Research, a technology intelligence firm located in New York. In a previous role at the biotechnology company Illumina, David Williamson helped develop a metaverse application that guided employees as they transferred 40 tubes of chemicals into kits for customers.