A report has been published by AREA Member EPRI, written by Christine Perey, of Perey Research & Consulting and also of The AREA. The full report can be downloaded on the EPRI website. The Read more...
A recent article by Forbes discusses future opportunities for Augmented Reality in the workplace, and mentions how AR will be a key advantage for organisations in term of competition. The Read more...
An article on Futureofbusinessandtech.com provides a neat summary on enterprise Augmented Reality: mainly that AR can boost operational efficiency, reducing time, costs and mistakes, therefore Read more...
Recent news has alluded to Tim Cook’s interest in Augmented Reality. This summary article has been taken from a blog on redcode.net regarding plans for the iPhone 7.Dual-camera technology of the Read more...
An article on itnewsafrica.com has provided information on Dell and Intel’s Future Workforce Study, which reported that nearly half of employees in Europe and South African regions feel as though Read more...
A recent article by TechCo discusses five key technology trends that should be taken notice of, especially as 2016 has seen a drastic increase in advanced tech development. These trends are: • Read more...
A report covering the current state and future prospects for the global smart glasses market for the years 2016 to 2020 has been released. It offers an overview of the market as well as Read more...
The French defence and electronics group Safran announced on 19 September that it had acquired a stake in AREA Member Diota. Diota, also a France-based company, specializes in the development of Read more...
Readers may be interested in a Whitepaper by Cognizant Reports which offers information on Augmented Reality in the enterprise, and advice on how to navigate its integration. Important research Read more...
Smart glasses are increasingly being chosen by the leading industrial companies of the world to drive meaningful outcomes. In this inspirational presentation, real stories will be shared on how businesses are deploying smart glasses into production environments today, alongside the vision of where it all goes from here. Businesses are investing into smart glasses with visions on how it begins to transform the workplace today alongside other industry 4.0 drivers such as industrial IoT, big data analytics, and the connected workers. Ultimately, smart glasses connect the human workforce with the intelligence of machines and data, enabling people to keep pace with the machines.
APX Labs, maker of Skylight© enterprise platform for wearables and a 2016 World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, recently engaged with Boeing on a smart glasses implementation for one of the company's wiring harness production sites, and saw meaningful results: a 25% decrease in assembly time and significant reduction in error rates.
To learn more about the use case, read the article on CIO, or check out this video.
When you truly sit in the pilot seat, from the technician's point of view, having a hands-free device where the information is just always in the upper right corner of your eye really starts to make sense.
This report summarizes problems and solutions identified in “Augmented Reality: Development and Implementation for Manufacturing at Boeing,” by Paul Davies and David Lee, a case study published by the Boeing Company in March 2014.
This document, released on 30 September 2015, describes Augmented Reality and use cases in the Navy. It is made available to the public with permission from the author. The Navy Augmented Reality Community (NARC) self-organized with a common passion for AR, and with a desire to work more effectively across NRE boundaries to advance the state of the art.
Although often considered a nuisance, order picking is one of the most important steps in supply chain logistics and warehousing, accounting for approximately 20% of all logistics costs and up to 55% of the total cost of warehousing5 . Moreover, order picking is the last supply chain step before goods are delivered to the customer. Mistakes made in this step cannot be undone internally anymore and thus directly influence the customer’s perceived quality of...
