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Highlights o Industrial Augmented Reality (AR) is a central part of Industry 4.0 initiatives o Providing guidance on which aspects industry should focus on to ensure AR implementation success o Technology context and organisational fit are key success factors for the AR implementation o User barrier and external support do not significantly influence the AR implementation success o While technological aspects are important, organisational issues are more relevant for industry

Highlightso Augmented Reality (AR) is a major part of industry 4.0 advancements o While AR is not ready yet for industrial deployment in some areas, it is already used in others o Hardware and software still require improvements in certain areas of AR o The context of research concerning AR is getting increasingly broader as its implementation rises o The future research needs to focus on intelligent manufacturing applications of AR Citation details: Egger, Johannes, and Tariq Masood. "Augmented reality in support of intelligent manufacturing -A systematic literature review." Computers & Industrial Engineering (in press)

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Over the past years the concept of human centred automation has received a lot of attention to achieve hybrid automation. A form of hybrid automation is taking benefit from the synergistic effect of human-robot collaboration. When used in assembly, the requirement of flexibility, adaptability and safety makes the design and redesign of human-robot collaborative (HRC) systems a complex and prone to error process. The use of time-based continuous simulations can offer safe virtual space for testing and validation thus easing the design of complex HRC systems. However, conventional simulations don't allow to experience the future production system as an end-user in an immersive environment. This paper explores the technological development in VR for design of human-centered production systems and develop a unified framework to combine human-robot simulation with VR. The simulation as an event-driven simulation helped in estimating the humanrobot cycle times, developing process plan, layout optimization and robot control program. The same simulation is used in VR to interact with the production equipment and particularly with the robot. Additionally, AWS Sumerian environment is used to create a virtual robot to assist VR user in the design process.