Augmented Reality is a promising technology for providing technical product information and might therefore be part of the digitalization strategy of industrial companies on their way to Industry 4.0.

Especially in manufacturing, training and service the Augmented Reality technology can help to augment the reality of a user (e.g. maintenance personnel with a specific task related to a machine) with linguistic, numerical and visual Intelligent information and lead to a context-sensitive, modern way of user instruction. 

There are results from experimental approaches that apply Augmented Reality for Technical Documentation that point to a high potential of Augmented Reality regarding time savings and safety improvements.

For an industrial company though the implementation of Augmented Reality for Technical Documentation might be a challenge and many questions still remain. How can you best profit from using Augmented Reality for industrial use cases? Can and should existing content be taken over from editorial systems or do the special features of Augmented Reality require a specific new concept of presenting information and could mean a shift towards more visual communication patterns? What could the future authoring process look like?

This contribution discusses these questions and presents preliminary approaches to tackle the challenges for industry companies.