Augmented and virtual reality is making the manufacturing process simpler! The rapid prototyping and modeling is reducing both time and cost of physical modeling. Also, the engineers and supervisors can now keep an eye on the workers and advise them if they need to, even if they are not inside the factory. It would not be wrong to say that AR/VR is driving multiple process improvements in the manufacturing sector. Hence, AR/VR is bringing in a new revolution in manufacturing all together.
In recent predictions, experts had predicted that the use of AR/VR in manufacturing will hit a valuation of US$2.8 billion by 2023. Accordingly, over 23 million industrial jobs will be using AR/VR for training, designing, manufacturing, and delivering services to customers by this time. Also, in a recently conducted survey, over 48% of the manufacturers had agreed that AR/VR will become mainstream for them in the next three years. This number increases by another 38%, if we consider the predictions for the next five years. And this number is expected to grow even further in future.
Develop virtual prototypes of the products using AR/VR solutions. This reduces the time needed to build prototypes by almost 80%. Also, as real prototypes are replaced by virtual models, it saves a considerable amount of expenses. It also makes designing faster, as the virtual prototypes can be modified and rebuilt multiple times.
Now, the instructors don’t have to be present in the warehouse itself to manage inventory. The warehouse workers can connect to the managers virtually using AR/VR technology. The managers can check stocks, instruct the workers, and the workers can complete all the works successfully under their manager’s supervision, without the need to be present under the same roof.
Many times, the instruments used may cause injuries to the workers. Using virtual working environments, these injuries can be easily minimized. However, it may prove to be quite a challenging task for the industries to implement such working environments successfully. Hence, they often need help from AR/VR solution providers like Acadereality!
Augmented and Virtual Reality can help a lot in giving virtual industrial training to the employees. The employees can virtually learn to handle the machines, without the need for actually coming to the site for such training. It saves time, efforts, and expenses of industrial training.
With the immersive technology, the engineers are just one-click away from their machines. Even if they are out of the town, they can still take care of their machines, and supervise the workers working on them if required, virtually. Hence, it will not be wrong to say that AR/VR is forming a bridge between man and machine in virtual space!
Since AR/VR reduces the time to build multiple physical models, time to travel long distances to communicate between the warehouse and manufacturing units, and the time to supervise the process, AR/VR makes the overall manufacturing process faster. Also, it reduces the cost of developing real prototypes by almost 80%.
Using the AR/VR solutions, the managers can supervise their workers anytime, and from anywhere. This ensures more enhanced supervision, and better management of the manufacturing process.
If the workers work in virtual work environments, with virtual instruments, their risk of getting injured reduces by many folds.