Advanced Manufacturing Series: Augmented Reality Training with Taqtile

Mechanical Engineer and Cobot Project Manager, Beau Wileman, explains how PBC Linear is utilizing augmented reality (AR) to standardize and increase engagement for their shop floor training. This is made possible with visually creative and engaging training software from Taqtile. Their programs use holograms projected through a headset, or goggles, into a user’s field of view while physically stationed at a machine. The PBC Linear team chose Taqtile after extensive market research, as well as for their focus within both government and private sectors. Additionally, Jackson Duncan, Manufacturing Engineer, provides more details of augmented reality training creation including templates and visually tagging specific tasks and functions with visual markers.

Augmented Reality in Manufacturing?
It is new in general but manufacturing latest industry to kind of hop on the augmented reality trend. What is perfect about if for manufacturing is there is so many opportunities to train people. Once you put the headset on and you start going through the trainings, it's very easy to follow the flow what's going on. Because of this, it makes the training so much more engaging to the person doing it. Instead of going to computer screen or listening to someone and possible their bad habits or their short cuts they take. You’re going through sort of like in a video game, where you see the instruction, you see a video, right next to the machine and then you can go right up to it and practice what you just learned. PBC takes decades of Tool Maker and Machinist knowledge and we break that down into very understandable and very consistent instructions which we then author into the augmented reality space. You shadow someone who has used that machine and is competent in operating it and changing things out and you learn from them, take your own notes, but you can take what you've learned to make a template. It has steps that you can read, but you can also put in pictures, you can put in videos in pictures, you can put in videos whoever learning that template would put on the headset and they would click the scan QR button, and once they scan that the template will pop up for them. The template itself is the same as thing as a document or manual, except you can put AR spatial markers in it. So unlike a manual, you can actually highlight in space where this button is that they need to press. AR has drastically dropped our time for training and increased our consistency with what workers have learned. We find that to be extremely valuable in today's day and age in manufacturing where there's a skill gap for just about every ten people leaving manufacturing, only one or two are entering the field. Those people typically are not the younger generation. So this engages the younger generation and makes them more excited about manufacturing. While also passing on that tribal knowledge and that skill set that the previous generations mastered.

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