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Augmented Workers

KIT-AR’s feature in Gemini

Manufacturing human worker sees the next steps to his task on a blue rectangle that displays augmented reality instructions, which is KIT-AR's solution

“Where you have people involved, mistakes are often made wherever they are. Here they quickly enable people to solve tasks. It’s supercharging of employees.”

In the month of May, KIT-AR was featured in a Gemini’s article to tell you all about how we started and grew from a research project to our present stage.

Discover the article here!

While you’re at it, take a look at our News page for more insights on KIT-AR!

University Pitch Sessions at UCL

Plug Play University Pitch Sessions at University College London (UCL)

In March, KIT-AR headed back to University College London (UCL) to show exactly how augmented workers are already eliminating human errors in production lines.

Thanks to Plug and Play University Pitch Sessions, we had the amazing opportunity to reach out and connect with 108 VCs and corporate partners.

While you’re at it, take a look at our News page for more insights on KIT-AR!

State of the Art in Enterprise Augmented Reality | Webinar

The use of Augmented Reality (AR) in industrial processes is slowly becoming more usual for many companies. However, there are still some main issues that are holding back Augmented Reality at an enterprise level.

With this webinar you can learn:

  • Why the lack of information and knowledge about immersive technologies is an issue for organizations
  • How full automation, won by eliminating people from production lines, is now out of the scope
  • How digital technologies, such as AR and Artificial intelligence (AI), can enhance the capabilities of human workers in more than one way

Together with António Almeida Almeida from INESC TEC, expert in R&D in manufacturing, we’re going to dig into these challenges and present practical solutions for them.

If you found this webinar useful, make sure to check out our Resources page for more industry insights!

Augmented Workers at Volkswagen Autoeuropa

Manufacturing human worker sees the next steps to his task on a blue rectangle that displays augmented reality instructions. It's an augmented worker because he is looking through AR.

The Digital Enhanced Operator (DEO) project is bringing Augmented Reality (AR) to Volkswagen’s Autoeuropa shopfloor with KIT-AR’s solution. The goal is to increase production quality while fewer errors are committed by the augmented workers.

DEO will be using KIT-AR’s solution to support production operations and quality control with step-by-step AR instructions viewed through HMDs (Head Mounted Displays). The goal is to research and successfully implement an AR industrial system to identify and guide workers through quality inspections in production lines, allowing them to more easily detect and report anomalies.

This project, coordinated by KIT-AR, INESC TEC and Volkswagen Autoeuropa, plans to draw new marks on the automotive industry.

DEO project is financed the Portugal 2020 programme and by the European Fund of Regional Development for the European Union, reaching a global budget superior to 830 thousand euros.

While you’re at it, take a look at our News page for more insights on KIT-AR!

Generating More Value with Augmented Workers | Webinar

Augmented Workers are digitally enhanced by immersive technologies, such as augmented reality (AR), and can help manufacturing companies achieve a continuous improvement on their shopfloor procedures.

With step-by-step augmented reality instructions, that alerts the workers of deviations and errors in the manufacturing processes (and shows how to fix them), the operators can turn complex and intricate processes into digital and easy to follow procedures.

This way, enhancing the operator’s cognitive and physical skills by using cutting-edge technologies in their day-to-day operations, will help workers reduce errors while increasing productivity. Therefore, a human workforce is essential for factories to keep growing and prospering.

But do you how factories can actually begin this augmented worker journey?

Join KIT-AR and SINTEF, while we discuss the following innovative topics in our webinar:

  • What is an augmented worker?
  • What will it bring new to the manufacturing industry and to society as a whole?
  • Are human operators really necessary or is total automation the new path for factories?

If you found this webinar useful, make sure to check out our Resources page for more industry insights!

Augmented Workers Are the Face of Industry 4.0 in Manufacturing

Manufacturing human worker clicks on next task on a blue rectangle that displays augmented reality instructions

The manufacturing industry has been through several changes over the years ever since the first industrial revolution. Nowadays, the manufacturing process relies much more on digital solutions, that can upgrade production capabilities to a whole new level.

In this way, Industry 4.0 is all about bringing a tech layer to the manufacturing industry’s shopfloor and this includes the enhancement of the human workers. This enhancing process is called augmentation. An augmented worker is an operator that uses technology to enhance his skills, which can improve their daily physical and cognitive tasks. Not only will this allow operators to do more focused and efficient work, but it will also help them overcome their failures.

There are many augmentation solutions available, however Augmented Reality (AR) provides the most important technological advantage for manufacturers, as it contributes to make humans work better and become more productive. Through AR, workers can see and interact with real-time step-by-step instructions overlaid on the shopfloor’s equipment, that guides them throughout their everyday tasks. Using animations, 3D, video and sound, operators can have a hands-free interaction with the digital instructions, through gesture and voice commands. This solution allows the workforce to do its assignments better, more easily and efficiently.

Augmentation can also help improve operator’s decision-making processes. Through automatic quality checks, workers can be alerted of a probable mistake and how to fix it, therefore reducing the error probability. Operational costs such as time of work, water and energy consumption, as well as waste are dramatically reduced while, at the same time, safety on the shopfloor increases. Overall, the continuous development of the relationship between man and machine, and the digitalization of the production process reduces non-value time on the shopfloor.

Can automation provide the expected outcomes?

It is important to mention that automation has been an essential tool for the manufacturing industry over the years and recently many manufacturers have started to believe that total automation may seem like a good solution. However, it has been proved that it would not yield the results sought out by factories, take for instance Ellon Musk who openly admitted that Tesla’s excessive automation was a mistake. Human operators have more capacities for certain tasks that machines simply do not have, such as creativity, flexibility and adaptability. Empowering the workers with augmented technology can make factories achieve continuous improvement.

Tests have also been done demonstrating that companies can use Augmented Reality solutions to upskill new employees. By not moving away from the shopfloor, they can learn new skills by visualizing instructions, while training time and costs can be decreased. As a consequence, the time-to-competence – also known as the time allocated to teach a new untrained individual and to turn him into a capable worker, who will perform his functions with confidence – will be reduced as well.

With detailed training, operators can execute specific tasks with more care and they can also do another person’s job without causing major costs. This means that line balancing, which concerns equivalating operator and machine time to the production’s rate to match the takt time, is assured.

Employees’ well-being, attention span and efficiency will increase with the benefits these technologies carry. Augmentation will improve human operator’s work, which will translate into a healthier and higher-quality manufacturing performance. Factories must start their Augmented Reality journey sooner than later, as they will, without a doubt, achieve great results with the tools that Industry 4.0 presents. 

If you found this webinar useful, make sure to check out our Resources page for more industry insights!

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