Vuforia Augmented Reality Work Instructions
Vuforia’s AR work instructions scale the knowledge of your experts to offer an easier and more effective way to get the job done. Empower your employees with step-by-step AR work instructions to improve operations and increase workforce efficiency.
What are augmented reality work instructions?
Augmented reality work instructions present critical information and guidance in a highly visual, interactive way—displayed on the physical products in the real environment. AR work instructions can be easily created through capturing knowledge via first-person video, leveraging existing 3D content, or in real time by remotely connecting with an expert for visual guidance. Overlaying digital content in context with the work being done increases manufacturing productivity, service accuracy, inspection quality, and overall workforce efficiency.
Types of augmented reality work instructions
3D visual guides
For the most immersive experience, model-based AR work instructions can be delivered as 3D visual guides, which allow the user to see step-by-step 3D-animated sequences overlaid on top of machines, offering clear, in-context visualization for service, operating, or training instructions.
AI-enhanced expert knowledge
Your experts take their knowledge with them when they retire. Seasoned frontline workers can capture their knowledge for AR work instructions and easily create and scale AI-enhanced inspection procedures with 3D CAD data.
Remote assistance
Working remotely comes with challenges, but AR bridges that gap by adding clear visualization. Technicians and experts can draw digital annotations on a mobile screen or desktop that accurately stick to 3D physical objects in the real world, allowing the expert to guide the technician through the process.
AR work instructions help to address challenges
Retiring experts
Widening skills gap
Hybrid and distributed workforce
Insufficient tools
Creating high-value AR work instructions has never been faster or easier
Vuforia’s portfolio of AR solutions allows organizations to quickly author, edit, publish, and distribute step-by-step instructions and remote assistance globally. Vuforia AR work instructions enable:
- Intuitive content authoring supported by the digital thread for faster time to value
- Immersive instructions powered by leading computer vision and AI
- Simple cross-platform publishing that fits your organizational needs
- Enterprise security, management, and scalability
Accelerate AR authoring by automatically sourcing existing 3D product data
Creating work instructions from scratch is a difficult process, and making sure those instructions are updated and in the right employees’ hands adds even more complexity.
Fortunately, organizations can connect their existing business systems to accelerate the creation of augmented reality work instructions.
Instead of authoring a single AR experience, CAD, PLM, and AR can be seamlessly connected to scale the creation of AR work instructions for variable, complex product lines—saving your engineers and technical writers time and money. Updates made to the product design, or changes to the way it should be assembled, serviced, or inspected, will be reflected automatically within the AR application, increasing the confidence and accuracy of frontline workers.
Industry applications for AR work instructions
Manufacturing
Service
Inspection
Training
Vuforia work instructions case studies
Vuforia work instructions offerings
Vuforia Expert Capture is an easy-to-use SaaS AR solution to help frontline workers more efficiently with on-the-job captured domain expertise and AI-enhanced visual inspection.
Vuforia Studio leverages the digital thread to transform your existing CAD, PLM, and IoT data into detailed 3D AR instructions that provide critical information overlayed on the physical world.
Vuforia Chalk makes augmented reality widely available and quickly accessible by combining advanced AR collaboration tools with real-time video to connect a field technician with an expert.
PTC named #1 vendor in Quadrant’s 2024 Enterprise Augmented Reality Assessment
Quadrant's analysis evaluated 11 AR solution providers. PTC achieved the highest scores for Customer Impact and Technology Excellence, securing the top vendor position. The 2024 edition is the fourth year in a row that Quadrant has recognized Vuforia as a leading AR solution in the market. Explore the complete report to understand why PTC Vuforia is the right solution for your organization.