| | June 20188CIOReviewife is changing rapidly for manufacturing industry. The modern factory is connect-ed, smart and getting data enriched.`While the factories becoming factory of the future, human worker remains key for factory floor performance.'How does the frontline workforce keep up? Are they equipped to leverage the factory of the future to deliver better results? As a matter of fact, major market of work-er of all jobs in manufacturing, have barely been touched by traditional and mobile computing.In addition to technology advancements, manufac-turing industry is also facing other challenges in terms shortage of skilled workers, growing knowledge gap, availability of specialist knowledge globally etc.Both people and business need new techniques to stay relevant for next industrial revolution. Industry 4.0 needs Frontline 4.0.Augmented Reality technology offers an answer:Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality is making huge strides in enterprise across industry verticals and throughout the product life cycle.Thanks to original device manufactures (ODM) and technology advancements, now AR/VR has reached us-ability phase in enterprise. What we are seeing is that the big glass ODMs who missed the consumer market are able to see success in enterprise market and many more are shifting their focus to enterprise market. Today en-terprises have several options when it comes to selecting smart glass from many industry leaders, such as Micro-soft, Google, Vuzix, Real ware, ODG, Epson, Toshiba, Sony, Meta, Daqri and more.While the application of AR smart glasses is seen in various business functions across industry verticals, we see the focus and momentum is more towards manufac-turing and filed services.`In manufacturing/field services, enterprises are in-creasingly adopting augmented reality through wearable devices to boost the performance and improve safety of the worker. This high-tech empowered workforce is what we call Frontline 4.0.'Majority of the enterprises across the world, signifi-cantly in US and Europe have moved beyond pilot phase in adopting AR.`Enterprises are observing a step function change (> 30 percent) in the productivity of the worker using AR, not just trivial increments. Therefore, benefits at scale are significant, saving millions of dollars.'Several AR Scenarios in manufacturing:We see numerous used cases in manufacturing, in field services. Popular ones are augmented work instructions/ repair instructions, remote support, quality inspection, expert knowledge capture, data visualization, order pick-ing etc. For example, step-by-step work instructions or LIN MY OPINIONFRONTLINE 4.0 FOR INDUSTRY 4.0WEARABLE AUGMENTED REALITY; CHANGING THE FACE OF WORK FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKFORCEBy Kamal Vittapalli, Head - Enterprise AR/VR competency at Tech Mahindra.
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