LightGuide
Manufacturing Workforce Today
The nature of manufacturing is changing. As industrial organizations move towards greater digitalization of production processes, flexible and faultless execution of activities on the factory floor are becoming standard expectations. At the same time, as competition grows, manufacturers are looking for ways to reduce operational costs and ensure business success without sacrificing productivity or throughput. Consequently, these demands put increasing pressure on their workforce to perform activities more efficiently and at the highest quality. Our team leverages LightGuide Projected Augmented Reality (AR) Software to help industrial organizations streamline processes, better support their workforce in the execution of tasks and ensure error-proof manufacturing.
About LightGuide
LightGuide Projected Augmented Reality Software is an audio-visual platform with patented Industry 4.0 technology that standardizes and dramatically improves any manual process by projecting virtual step-by-step instructions onto an employee’s work surface. Displaying the right information in the right place at the right time, the industrial AR platform helps your people work at the speed of light and delivers immediate impact in quality, productivity and training effectiveness.
LightGuide uses digital projection technology to overlay a virtual operating “canvas” onto any work surface, interfacing with existing manufacturing equipment to deliver immersive, interactive, visual work instructions that simplify complex sequences of a manufacturing organization's key execution tasks:
- Assembly;
- Inspection;
- Material-handling;
- Training operations;
- Part picking and kitting;
- Maintenance.
LightGuide Stand-Alone Systems: The AR software platform can be deployed running on a standard Windows 10 PC, driving one or more high-lumen, high-resolution industrial-grade projectors, and interfaced to sensors, cameras, input devices and torque tools to visualize and error-proof the workflow.
LightGuide Factory Deployment: LightGuide workstations can power your core operational processes, from part picking to assembly to test, inspection and training. They connect to and communicate with any MES, PLC or SCADA environment, ensuring the data flows seamlessly across the factory network with no latency.
LightGuide Enterprise Connectivity: LightGuide interfaces easily to all common cloud platforms and provides connections to all major web-hosted business intelligence environments, enabling full digital traceability and real-time analytics for complex manufacturing processes running anywhere in the world.
Target Manufacturing Sectors
- Assembly manufacturing
- Aerospace, space and defense
- Automotive and heavy equipment
- Electronics, batteries and semiconductors
- Energy and utilities
- Food and beverage manufacturing
- Medical device manufacturing
Features of LightGuide
- Project specific color-coded, animated light beams and audio-visual prompts in the form of text, symbols, graphics, blueprints and video
- Eliminate operator reliance on hardcopy work instructions, computer screens and/or memory
- Guide operators through quality tasks and confirm that each check meets requirements for product assembly
- Automatically record inspection times, providing real-time data and analytics for management
- Ensure error-proof quality testing for all product variations
- Configure system to integrate hundreds of standard factory tools, including MES, PLCs, torque tools, cameras and sensors
- Interface with Cloud platforms to create custom dashboard and analytics
- Capture real-time operational metrics, including station status, cycle time, step times, throughput and defect logging
- Capture key performance metrics, storing pictures and videos and providing a “digital birth certificate” for every part produced
Benefits of LightGuide
- Inspire workforce empowerment
- Improve workforce performance
- Improve training effectiveness
- Increase factory productivity
- Improve process and product quality
- Streamline and error-proof manufacturing
- Increase safety, cognitive capacity and overall operational success
Engineering’s Expertise
Engineering Group has partnered with LightGuide to offer our customers more innovative Augmented Reality solutions that enable them to improve workforce performance and optimize training, execution and maintenance operations on the factory floor. Leveraging the proven capabilities of LightGuide for the industrial setting, combined with our knowledge across the entire spectrum of Industry 4.0 technologies and manufacturing processes, we can make your organization smarter, safer and more efficient.
Interested in speaking to one of our experts? Contact us at info@indx.com.
