dynaEdge smart glass solution

In the world of manufacture, time is money, and so too is quality. Providing your manufacturing base with a digital workflow ensures that the correct instructions are provided at the correct time, in the correct order, and can also be audited.

A digital workflow allows the worker to receive instructions so they can work hands-free. Each step is recorded with a time/date stamp. Updates to the manufacturing process are delivered without the need for extra training that would slow down production (on the job training).

Workers can call a supervisor at any time, so they can see production issues in real time. And they can capture documentary evidence (image/video) of the product for use in QA or auditing.

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In modern manufacture, it’s not uncommon to have a rapidly changing production line, where multiple variants of a product can be in the same production, or even different products on the same line.

This poses a challenge to the workforce, however. But using the built-in camera or a hand-scanner, an identifying code can be scanned, which ensures the relative instructions are shown.

In this way, you can be confident that your workers can handle any product on the production line, reducing QA failures and contributing to ISO9001 /BS5750 attainment.

What happens when you open a new facility or expand into a new territory? How long does it take to train the new workforce? How much does it cost to move your experts around the globe to train the new workforce or ensure things have been setup correctly?

Digital Workflows, combined with Remote Expert, afford the ability to maintain your implementation/setup team virtually into any location. This reduces the number of people you need to send, and how long they need to remain there. After an initial induction phase, the expert team can return to their home base and still be available to help as needed.

This reduces travel budgets, reduces your carbon footprint, allows expertise to be distributed globally, and ensures your workforce are as efficient and happy as possible, and upskilled more cost effectively.

Whether manufacturing or performing maintenance, the ability to perform an accurate and successful QA check is critical. Imagine if every job completed could be recorded as a picture or video, with accompanying audio notes as required, thus providing an instant audit trail of what happened

Today’s wearable technology offers just that. The dynaEdge AR100 allows your organisation to record every job, reducing the number of errors. And if something should fail, the latest inspection or manufacturing steps can be checked and verified to correct the problem.

The dynaEdge AR Smart Glasses keep product flowing and accounted for. Equipped with the industrial-grade smart glasses and HMD barcode scanning capabilities, workers can have order information sent wirelessly to the display. They can also work untethered in a warehouse, for pick-and-pack services, as well as inventory management. Using wearable technology for a visual picking process has been shown to improve pick times by more than 25% and virtually eliminate picking errors.

Visually delivering information to the worker eye-line also ensures they are less fatigued and more productive, as they are given the correct information at the correct time. Confirmation cues can also be given audibly as well as visually.

Training, a vital part of any successful organization, but also an activity under a lot of time pressure. Using wearable technology with Remote Expert and Digital Workflows, training time can be reduced, and on-the-job training increased.

Your workers can be mentored live, in a real-world environment, via the benefit of direct video support and instructions. Such training is known to deliver a more confident workforce as they learn new skills and have the re-assurance of being immediately backed-up by experts.

That reduces the need for class-led training, minimising time away from the real work, reducing travel and accommodation costs, and allowing your workers to learn from their peers.

Using wearable solutions and a Digital Workflow, auditors can attend site and conduct their survey following the workflow. They can take pictures and provide notes via voice-to-text, with all this information being stored against the workflow either locally and/or in the cloud. Once complete the workflow will provide a detailed report, containing all of the picture, video and notes taken during the survey.

As an organisation, you will benefit from knowing a structured survey has been carried out to your standards in the quickest possible time. Your worker benefits from not having to write a full report later (it just needs reviewing), being able to work hands-free, and not having to carry too much equipment with them.

Assessments take time and are often seen as a necessary evil. They involve either sending an assessor on site, which can be inconvenient for your customer, or taking the technician "off-the-road", so they can be assessed and requalified.

Using a Remote Expert solution, the worker can be assessed at any location, even when on the job. The assessor can see exactly what the worker can see and is doing at any given point. The assessor can also take videos and pictures as documentary evidence of the assessment.

This can save time and money by keeping the individual working and reducing the need for extra travel. As such, it also helps reduce your organisation’s CO² footprint.