Sensing the cyber-physical: extended reality in smart manufacturing

Extended Reality (XR) for Manufacturing is a new reality of development now possible for the factory floor thanks to the introduction of 5G and similar high-speed connectivity. The benefits of using a high-speed infrastructure make the virtual space an ideal development environment for factories to benefit from in areas such as financial, training, design, troubleshooting and maintenance. The adoption of enabling technologies such as XR and 5G by manufacturing is allowing the physical world to be designed and simulated virtually through digitalized processes before a physical product is even created.