Bibliometric analysis for the determination of fields of opportunity for new technological trends: augmented reality as quality control

Abstract

With the emergence of industry 4.0, innovation was made in terms of emerging technologies, one of them is Augmented Reality as a tool that manages to enhance the new generation of automated factories. This leads to a use by operators or any type of personnel who need interaction with specific information such as: product data sheets, instructions for maintenance procedures, assembly, manufacturing, quality control forms etc. just to mention a few of the applications. They can be handled efficiently and amplifying the degree of ease of these processes by applying AR. Therefore this is the reason why this research is carried out taking into account different environments, the objective is to provide an overview in which fields of opportunity or trends are identified on the use of this pillar of i4.0 within the quality control process, with the intention of showing approaches that motivate scientific research, to achieve this goal, a bibliometric analysis was applied to a database obtained in Scopus, using the R software, with which authors, research topics, journals of interest, keywords, scientific production by year or country were identified. With the intention of finding the most significant information, so the results obtained show 5 potential areas where AR can play an important role within the quality control process demonstrating its suitability to improve processes.