AR Helps Revolutionize Quality and Training at Magna

00:02 Nascote Industries is a division of Magna International, one of the world's largest suppliers in the automotive space, shipping millions of parts to customers annually. Nascote holds themselves to a high standard, and their customers expect zero defects. In a continued effort to meet customer expectations on the amount and quality of parts shipped, Nascote started to explore new ways to both train employees and improve quality inspection. Today, classroom and on the job training with paper based instructions

00:35 are the primary methods to train new Nascote employees. These methods can be difficult for new workers who aren't familiar with manufacturing or individuals who struggle to learn from just reading instructions without additional context. It can take several days to several weeks to train a new employee before they become fully productive. Because training is so critical at Nascote, they began to look at ways to enhance it. Vuforia Expert Capture enables Nascote to create

01:06 augmented reality training instructions that can engage the workforce, offering them a better way to learn and retain knowledge. The visual step by step instructions paired with a first person point of view can be easily followed on iPads or smart glasses. Expert Capture - Vuforia’s SaaS AR solution allows Nascote to provide new employees with a training method that is more engaging than simply reading paper documents. This speeds up the training process to help new employees

01:37 enter production faster, with information more easily retained. With the goal to exceed their current customer satisfaction, Nascote identified another area that could benefit from augmented reality - quality inspections. Today, Nascote workers perform daily inspections such as poka-yoke and red rabbit checks to make sure that the chances of getting a bad part out the door are minimized. This is important because if bad parts are missed in an inspection, they are going to be producing a lot of scrap and rework.

02:09 Nascote wanted to focus on identifying soft connections on their parts, such as a plug not fully connected as these can be difficult to identify visually. Expert Capture’s AI-enhanced visual inspection capability, Step Check, ensures that inspections are done right the first time. Step Check identifies and displays pass or fail states automatically in AR so that the worker clearly sees if a soft connect has occurred in real time.

02:39 This means that Step Check can detect if the plug isn't all the way in and alert the frontline worker - a case where previously the traditional computer check might say it passes, but it really doesn't. Every step is automatically recorded and documented for later review. This enables Nascote to analyze the critical data and insights gathered at the front line to identify patterns and opportunities for improvement. Nascote has seen the impact that augmented reality can have in their training programs and on the front line with quality inspections.

03:13 With this exciting new chapter ahead, Nascote has plans to promote and grow the use of augmented reality to their sister divisions.