Rockwell Automation is known for its Integrated Architecture® system and The Connected Enterprise®. These concepts have always centered around the combination of technologies, networks, people and processes to effectively provide solutions to any industrial automation challenge. The integration of Vuforia Augmented Reality (AR) and the Fiix® computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is no different.
Vuforia Expert Capture: Augmented Work Instructions for Maintenance Procedures
Interest levels in Augmented Reality work instructions have seen a steady growth in manufacturing the past few years. Vuforia Expert Capture remains an effective tool that supports maintenance teams with efficient and intuitive augmented work instructions. What makes this technology perfect for building augmented maintenance procedures?
Capture expertise from your most experienced technicians
There’s an understandably wide knowledge gap between seasoned maintenance technicians and those just joining the team. So how do maintenance organizations bring those new hires up to speed as efficiently as possible? Capturing and recording the knowledge of your trusted experts with Vuforia Expert Capture allows them to scale their expertise quickly and helps prevent them from having to be available or on-site every time problems arise. By leveraging the Vuforia Capture app, experts can grab a mobile device, a camera or even better - use a wearable headset to record common troubleshooting procedures or inspections completely hands free.
Record user feedback during routine maintenance or inspections
Whether scheduled or reactive, maintenance procedures are very rarely just going through a list of steps without capturing data, recording meter readings or identifying which assets are approaching states of wear or concern. Vuforia Expert Capture can capture this information through a variety of user feedback options including free form comments, step acknowledgment or confirmation and pass / fail states.
Step Check: Automatically pass or fail a step based on real-time asset status
Want to remove any uncertainty about whether a step was completed correctly? Vuforia Expert Capture offers its most advanced feature so far: Step Check. This visually based artificial intelligence model references 3D CAD data and is trained with images captured in procedure completion. This results in steps that are automatically marked as Pass or Fail through the technician’s camera input alone, for more efficiently completed work orders.
