Augmented Reality

Empower Your Workforce

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Revolutionize Manufacturing with Augmented Reality Solutions

Are you ready to empower your workers to perform better, avoid safety risks, access the training they require, remain compliant and service your facility remotely? Industrial Augmented Reality (AR) can help improve your workforce productivity, efficiency and safety, all while enhancing customer satisfaction.

Companies today are challenged with the biggest workforce shortage in decades that has manifested into a skills gap never before witnessed in manufacturing. Digitally native, early entry employees are looking for innovators in technology to achieve productivity rapidly.

Furthermore, products are becoming more challenging to service and manufacture because your most knowledgeable workers are retiring at a rate greater than ever before. AR is bridging the gap and meeting the challenges facing your facilities today.

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Augmented Reality is Transforming Manufacturing

Improve workforce productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Engineered for Immediate Value

Vuforia® AR solutions enable you to create and deliver easily-consumable instructions with new or existing media content/capture, 2D and 3D content, sequences, IoT data and real-time annotations in shared environments.

View AR experiences on industry-leading mobile devices and 2D and 3D eyewear including Microsoft HoloLens® 2, RealWear, Vuzix, Magic Leap and others. Each Vuforia® solution is optimized for specific capabilities and use cases.

Remote Assistance

Connect and collaborate with remote experts in real-time

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Training

Reduce errors in training and instruction methods

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Safety

Improve workforce safety, efficiency and accuracy

Knowledge Transfer

Upskill workers rapidly with fewer incidents and errors

Powering the Future with Augmented Reality

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Powering the Future with Augmented Reality

Reduce errors in training and instruction methods and overcome the challenges of retiring experts, new paradigms in the workforce and new technologies with Vuforia Studio.

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Unlocking Value Through Augmented Maintenance

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Unlocking Value Through Augmented Maintenance

Improve workforce safety, efficiency and accuracy through augmented maintenance and safety for intelligent motor control centers. Bringing data to life by transforming 2D to 3D, Rockwell Automation AMS makes work accessible via mobile and cloud-based tools.

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Augmented Reality Work Instructions

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Augmented Reality Work Instructions

Vuforia Expert Capture is designed for manufacturing companies who seek a scalable, out-ofthe-box solution to improve quality, machine performance and compliance by reducing the errors associated with traditional training and instruction methods.

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Vuforia® Expert Capture

Quickly create and share expert procedural guidance from start to finish

With the Vuforia® Expert Capture™ app on an assisted reality or mixed reality headset, experts can capture first‐person, step‐by‐step video and images of procedures as they perform them. The entire capture process is controlled by voice commands, gestures and can include location‐based steps. Once a procedure has been captured, it is revised and enhanced before publishing using a drag‐and‐drop, cloud‐based application with automatically built templates. Vuforia Expert Capture is designed for manufacturing companies who seek a scalable, out-of-the-box solution to reduce the errors associated with traditional training and instruction methods. This will enable you to extend the value of the digital thread to front-line workers by leveraging your 3D CAD to create, deliver and scale interactive work instructions to optimize inspection for Quality and Field Maintenance use cases.

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Vuforia Studio

Scalable AR content on demand and in context

Vuforia® Studio™ allows technical content creators to transform existing 3D CAD or scan data, into detailed AR experiences tailored to specific product models and configurations. These experiences may also include 3D animations, IoT and business systems data to help employees and customers better understand how to operate, maintain and demonstrate complex equipment in the context of their physical work environments.

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Vuforia Engine

AR software development technology using advanced Computer Vision

Vuforia® Engine™ helps developers put their content into the real world by using advanced Computer Vision to have a deep understanding of the environment and objects around us. By using this SDK, you are giving your custom apps an eye into the world. Vuforia offers support for several development platforms, including Unity. PTC and Unity have a strategic partnership that enables deep and seamless integration of Vuforia Engine into the Unity interface.

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Connecting Users Across the Digital and Physical World

With AR, work instructions become handsfree and are delivered in real time where assembly or field service take place. Knowledge from experienced workers is easily captured and shared with new workers and service technicians. Remote expertise can be delivered to workers no matter where they are in the world. Training manuals and videos become a thing of the past.

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Optimize Inspections with CAD-based Work Instructions

An out-of-the-box solution for fast and easy creation, execution and analysis of CAD-based work instructions.

Accurate Inspections

Incorrect inspection procedures can lead to increased downtime with failed equipment. Paper-based processes can be error-filled, difficult to act on and expensive. A single procedural step in an inspection process missed may lead to poor equipment performance, or worse, critical failure.

AR guided instructions provide context visually, with step-by-step comparison, communication and confirmation with a handheld device, or even a wearable device such as HaloLens2, RealWear and others, to provide hands free information. Inspect it right the first time for proper maintenance when needed.

This out-of-the-box solution may extend to your customers as well by providing service technicians with step-by-step AR-guided instructions on how to inspect and repair equipment at the customer site. AR guided instructions speed service calls, improve first-time fix rate (FTFR) and reduce customer downtime.

Knowledge Transfer

Provide your workers access to in‐context expert knowledge on a wide range of devices. AR applications can be used on HoloLens2, RealWear, Vuzix, Magic Leap and others to record the procedures, allowing hands‐free knowledge transfer. It’s time to empower your workers with augmented expert guidance so they can get the job done quickly, accurately and safely.

Your digitally native, early career employees entering the workforce are inspired to work for industrial companies who are at the forefront of technology. They arrive already plugged into the latest technology and expect nothing less from their employers to remain engaged.

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Transformational Workforce Productivity

An easy solution for knowledge transfer.

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Improved Safety

Most manufacturing facilities inherently include hazardous environments. Though safety zones are painted on the shop floor, these may be ignored or unnoticed. Arc Flash incidences are unpredictable. While there are methods in place to help prevent them from occurring, companies need to be prepared for the ‘what if’ scenario. A virtual safety barrier can help prevent the risk of exposure to an Arch Flash blast zone, improving the safety of your employees.

In addition, procedures that must be strictly adhered to can be tracked and recorded to understand where knowledge gaps are most prevalent. AR helps you identify the greatest risk areas for further training and instructions to reduce errors that might lead to safety violations.

Live Remote Support

Operators of your facilities may be located all over the world. Access to their expertise has never been easier. Real-time AR support from your team members reduces the time that it takes to repair or resolve, without the travel costs. Combine advanced AR with real-time communications to connect a field technician with an expert so they can see and discuss the situation in the field. Technicians and experts can draw digital annotations on a mobile screen or desktop that stick to 3D physical objects, allowing the expert to guide the technician through a process, step-by-step.

Offering your customers this remote service capability saves hours, days and even weeks when provided instantly through AR. Your customer service satisfaction is paramount to long-term loyalty.

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Improve Quality and Reduce Costs

Empower frontline workers, improve quality and drive continuous improvement with AR-enabled instructions.

Maintenance and Service

Downtime due to failed equipment results in lost production and idle systems. Facilities require the most efficient meantime to repair (MTTR). Companies can no longer rely on the memory and skill retention of their operators and technicians to handle the increasing necessity to adapt to the complexity and variation of products and production lines. Ambiguity related to the context is reduced when 3D digital content is overlaid on top of the product itself. The inspector can observe the physical product and see the information they need, now.

AR enhances right-the-first-time maintenance. Your technicians may now access the knowledge of senior technicians at their finger tips through a smartphone or tablet. AR can be your best employee, now accessible to every one of your technicians.

Augmented Work Instructions

With a powerful, easy-to-use UX, technical content creators can transform existing 3D CAD or scan data into detailed AR experiences tailored to specific product models and configurations. These experiences may also include 3D animations, IoT and business systems data to help employees and customers better understand how to operate, maintain and demonstrate complex equipment in the context of their physical work environments. Develop your AR connection to your workforce rapidly either on-premise or in the cloud.

Training has never been so easy. Gone are the thick manuals and confusing guides for work instructions. Employees may now learn rapidly through a 3D visual environment.

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Improving Maintenance with Augmented Reality

Improve workforce training and performance, deliver differentiated service and enhance customer experiences.

Real-time Metrics Captured

Disparate systems, big data from multiple sources and complex systems are challenging companies more each year. You need a platform to empower your business, including your augmented reality solutions. ThingWorx allows you to quickly connect industrial assets and applications into a single source for collecting, aggregating and enabling more secure access to industrial operations data. Provide work order, work instruction, machine and smart tool data on a single screen to your operators for rapid IIoT deployment. Take control of your data today and put it to work for you.

When you combine an IIoT platform powered by ThingWorx, your augmented reality solutions are enhanced exponentially. Now is the time to join the future of manufacturing with a digitally transformed enterprise.