What is augmented reality in training?
Before augmented reality, training experiences took place in classrooms or by shadowing expert employees. Relying on their memory, technicians and operators struggled to navigate paper-based manuals and turned to SMEs for on-the-job assistance. Augmented reality training acts as a “digital mentor” that provides in-context visual instructions for employees to leverage while they’re working. Users learn on the job, retain information better, and avoid interrupting experts.
Training challenges in manufacturing and service
Retiring workforce and high attrition
After they’re trained, new hires depend heavily on subject matter experts for on-the-job assistance—particularly when paper-based manuals lack the required details and visual context. But as more and more experienced workers retire, taking their valuable knowledge with them, fewer experts are available to support and mentor those new hires. And with high attrition and turnover in the manufacturing workforce, training each group of new hires is time-consuming and costly.
Increased product complexity
Increasingly complex products make it that much more challenging to train new employees, especially given the lack of sufficient instructions to navigate that complexity. Having fewer experts available to lend support only exacerbates this challenge.
Outdated tools and processes
Outdated tools and processes can make training less effective, increase training time, and slow comprehension. Manufacturers need a training solution that provides details and visual context, empowers users on the job, and lessens the burden on SMEs to assist new hires.
Where is augmented reality training most useful?
Manufacturing and service challenges call for an innovative approach to training. Leading manufacturers realize that training experiences are best delivered as ongoing support through in-context augmented reality instructions. When frontline workers have access to detailed, 3D instructions in the context of their physical environment, they unlock efficiencies throughout the training process and beyond.
Onboarding
Product knowledge training
Safety
Upskilling
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