Smartglasses Transforming Work
In a recent PC Mag article, Ben Dickson wrote about ‘How Augmented Reality Is Transforming Work’.
In his words:
‘Google Glass fizzled among consumers, but on factory floors, augmented reality smart glasses can make a huge difference in speed and efficiency.’
The Benefits of Smartglasses
There are many benefits quoted by smartglasses manufactures and software providers and in this article alone "The application of smart glass and AR is helping companies save time and traveling costs for their highly trained experts, one of their scarcest resources", "Reduce production time by 25 percent" and "Error rate that was effectively being driven to zero" and are just a few benefits quoted.
In the simplest application of smartglasses, a technician wearing AR glasses can stream, in real time, what they see and hear to a subject matter expert watching on a computer screen from anywhere in the world. The real benefits of AR in improving the versatility of the workforce come into play when it's combined with other emerging technologies, bringing digital workflows, measurability, and transparency to the workplace.
Case Study Facts
Just as broad outline, here some of the benefits quoted by some of the industry leaders in this field:
- 23% more productive
- 30% Higher output
- 20% Greater utilisation
- 25% Production time cut
- Reduced errors to nearly Zero
- More machine uptime and availability
- A shorter overall production cycle
- Reduced production costs
- 11% cut in field costs
- 34% increase in productivity
- 46% improvement upon first-time use of AR glasses
