Augmented Reality

Vuforia Chalk

Giving frontline workers access to real-time AR support

Quickly scale problem-solving guidance, support and expertise to your factory operations and service teams with augmented reality. Vuforia® Chalk™ is a powerful collaboration and communication tool for your organization’s experts to provide real-time assistance to technicians facing complex or unfamiliar challenges.

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Vuforia® Expert Capture

Quickly create and share expert procedural guidance from start to finish

With the Vuforia® Expert Capture™ app on an assisted reality or mixed reality headset, experts can capture first‐person, step‐by‐step video and images of procedures as they perform them. The entire capture process is controlled by voice commands, gestures and can include location‐based steps. Once a procedure has been captured, it is revised and enhanced before publishing using a drag‐and‐drop, cloud‐based application with automatically built templates.

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Vuforia Instruct

Fastest and easiest way to author CAD-based work instructions

Vuforia® Instruct™ is designed for manufacturing companies who seek a scalable, out-of-the-box solution to reduce the errors associated with traditional training and instruction methods. Vuforia Instruct will enable you to extend the value of the digital thread to the front-line workers by leveraging your 3D CAD to create, deliver and scale interactive work instructions to front-line workers to optimize inspection for Quality and Field Maintenance use cases.

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Vuforia Studio

Scalable AR content on demand and in context

Vuforia® Studio™ allows technical content creators to transform existing 3D CAD or scan data, into detailed AR experiences tailored to specific product models and configurations. These experiences may also include 3D animations, IoT and business systems data to help employees and customers better understand how to operate, maintain and demonstrate complex equipment in the context of their physical work environments.

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Vuforia Engine

AR software development technology using advanced Computer Vision

Vuforia® Engine™ helps developers put their content into the real world by using advanced Computer Vision to have a deep understanding of the environment and objects around us. By using this SDK, you are giving your custom apps an eye into the world. Vuforia offers support for several development platforms, including Unity. PTC and Unity have a strategic partnership that enables deep and seamless integration of Vuforia Engine into the Unity interface.

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Quickly scale problem-solving guidance, support and expertise to your factory operations and service teams with Augmented Reality. FactoryTalk® InnovationSuite Vuforia Chalk is a powerful collaboration and communication tool for your organization’s experts to provide real-time assistance to technicians facing complex or unfamiliar challenges.

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Accurate Inspections

Incorrect inspection procedures can lead to increased downtime with failed equipment. Paper-based processes can be error-filled, difficult to act on and expensive. A single procedural step in an inspection process missed may lead to poor equipment performance, or worse, critical failure.

AR guided instructions provide context visually, with step-by-step comparison, communication and confirmation with a handheld device, or even a wearable device such as HaloLens2, RealWear and others, to provide hands free information. Inspect it right the first time for proper maintenance when needed.

This out-of-the-box solution may extend to your customers as well by providing service technicians with step-by-step AR-guided instructions on how to inspect and repair equipment at the customer site. AR guided instructions speed service calls, improve first-time fix rate (FTFR) and reduce customer downtime.

Knowledge Transfer

Provide your workers access to in‐context expert knowledge on a wide range of devices. AR applications can be used on HoloLens2, RealWear, Vuzix, Magic Leap and others to record the procedures, allowing hands‐free knowledge transfer. It’s time to empower your workers with augmented expert guidance so they can get the job done quickly, accurately and safely.

Your digitally native, early career employees entering the workforce are inspired to work for industrial companies who are at the forefront of technology. They arrive already plugged into the latest technology and expect nothing less from their employers to remain engaged.

Improved Safety

Most manufacturing facilities inherently include hazardous environments. Though safety zones are painted on the shop floor, these may be ignored or unnoticed. Arc Flash incidences are unpredictable. While there are methods in place to help prevent them from occurring, companies need to be prepared for the ‘what if’ scenario. A virtual safety barrier can help prevent the risk of exposure to an Arch Flash blast zone, improving the safety of your employees.

In addition, procedures that must be strictly adhered to can be tracked and recorded to understand where knowledge gaps are most prevalent. AR helps you identify the greatest risk areas for further training and instructions to reduce errors that might lead to safety violations.

Live Remote Support

Operators of your facilities may be located all over the world. Access to their expertise has never been easier. Real-time AR support from your team members reduces the time that it takes to repair or resolve, without the travel costs. Combine advanced AR with real-time communications to connect a field technician with an expert so they can see and discuss the situation in the field. Technicians and experts can draw digital annotations on a mobile screen or desktop that stick to 3D physical objects, allowing the expert to guide the technician through a process, step-by-step.

Offering your customers this remote service capability saves hours, days and even weeks when provided instantly through AR. Your customer service satisfaction is paramount to long-term loyalty.

Maintenance and Service

Downtime due to failed equipment results in lost production and idle systems. Facilities require the most efficient meantime to repair (MTTR). Companies can no longer rely on the memory and skill retention of their operators and technicians to handle the increasing necessity to adapt to the complexity and variation of products and production lines. Ambiguity related to the context is reduced when 3D digital content is overlaid on top of the product itself. The inspector can observe the physical product and see the information they need, now.

AR enhances right-the-first-time maintenance. Your technicians may now access the knowledge of senior technicians at their finger tips through a smartphone or tablet. AR can be your best employee, now accessible to every one of your technicians.

Augmented Work Instructions

With a powerful, easy-to-use UX, technical content creators can transform existing 3D CAD or scan data into detailed AR experiences tailored to specific product models and configurations. These experiences may also include 3D animations, IoT and business systems data to help employees and customers better understand how to operate, maintain and demonstrate complex equipment in the context of their physical work environments. Develop your AR connection to your workforce rapidly either on-premise or in the cloud.

Training has never been so easy. Gone are the thick manuals and confusing guides for work instructions. Employees may now learn rapidly through a 3D visual environment.

Real-time Metrics Captured

Disparate systems, big data from multiple sources and complex systems are challenging companies more each year. You need a platform to empower your business, including your augmented reality solutions. ThingWorx allows you to quickly connect industrial assets and applications into a single source for collecting, aggregating and enabling more secure access to industrial operations data. Provide work order, work instruction, machine and smart tool data on a single screen to your operators for rapid IIoT deployment. Take control of your data today and put it to work for you.

When you combine an IIoT platform powered by ThingWorx, your augmented reality solutions are enhanced exponentially. Now is the time to join the future of manufacturing with a digitally transformed enterprise.