Retaining and ensuring an engaged and operationally efficient workforce today means empowering them with the use of technology. AR/VR is one of those vital technologies currently being deployed to combat the manufacturing labor crisis.
It offers powerful immersive training to accelerate “door-to-floor” efforts, helping workers adapt to new technology by simulating new work environments. 3D models can be used with augmented reality to help close the skills gap created by the departure of more experienced employees.
Some advantages of 3D-driven training include:
- More realistic training experience that engages frontline personnel more directly and holistically
- Supports the development of skills that are difficult to impossible to explain verbally
- Eliminates the need to create physical mock-ups of control rooms, plant equipment or product sub-assemblies
- Accelerates learning and provides easy mechanisms to reinforce learning (train anywhere, immersive work instructions, etc.)
- Provides higher levels of trainee engagement
- Improves reusable learning content over time and across sites
Not only are AR/VR technologies becoming fundamental building blocks in the future of industrial work, but they are also “force multipliers” to accelerate digital transformation more generally. AR/VR enables new processes and operationalizes digital twin strategies, improves quality and manufacturing productivity, and accelerates new product introduction while providing immersive and intuitive technology to give feedback and close the digital twin loop.
The broader aim of such technologies is to create value for customers, meaningful work for people, and empower frontline workers to make decisions. This helps manufacturers become change-ready by reducing the burdens of technology adoption in frontline workers while blending advanced technology and digital dexterity with uniquely human skills for the highest level of decision support and productivity.
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