Vuzix Smart Glasses for Airbus Aircraft Assembly
Vuzix Corporations will work with Accenture and Airbus on a new initiative to reduce time taken to assemble aircraft cabin seats. The glasses have contextual marking instructions which they use to display all the information needed by an operator to quickly and accurately mark the floor.
The collaboration between Airbus, Accenture and Vuzix smart glasses is part of a larger initiative towards industrialized wearable technology in major aircraft manufacturing companies.
The eye technology which is implemented by Accenture increases the level of interaction by offering access to important features like data retrieval from the cloud, barcode scanning, Augmented Reality and voice commands. By using this technology, Airbus is able to mark seat locations to the last millimeter with a lot of accuracy and high quality.
According to Airbus, the technology produced impressive results. The process of making cabin seats improved by 500%. The company also says the technology reduced the rate of error to zero and generally accelerated the level of operations.
In addition, the technology reduced the requirements for training as the smart glasses relay the required data hence wiping out the need for use of manual methods.