Mixed Reality at Industry 4.0: HoloLens 2 and its value to the manufacturing sector

New technologies are changing the way the industrial sector operates and the environments in which they are forced to compete. Technicians and remote collaborators can add mixed reality annotations to provide instructions in context.

 

Guides: Dynamics 365 Guides is a mixed reality tool that enables employees to learn new knowledge faster without writing code through interactive instructions with the Hololens2 device.

 

Custom Solutions: For any other use case, Bravent has a team of experts for the development of custom solutions.

These applications bring many benefits in the short, medium, and long term to the industrial companies that decide to implement them:

Mixed Reality (MR) is the combination of virtual reality and augmented reality. This combination makes it possible to create new spaces in which both real and virtual objects and/or people interact, i.e.,

The person wearing this viewer, the Hololens2, will be able to interact with their real physical environment and at the same time with virtual reality through holograms.

Regarding the Hololens2 device, it is the device offered by Microsoft to apply untethered Mixed Reality that is designed to help you solve real problems of today’s businesses using intelligent applications and solutions.

 

This technology has 3 applications

 

Remote Assist: this allows technicians to collaborate and troubleshoot with remote collaborators using Dynamics 365 Remote Assist for mobile devices or Microsoft Teams. Technicians and remote collaborators can add mixed reality annotations to provide instructions in context.

Guides: Dynamics 365 Guides is a mixed reality tool that enables employees to learn faster new knowledge without writing code through interactive instructions with the Hololens2 device.

Custom Solutions: For any other use case, Bravent has a team of experts for custom solutions development.

 

These applications bring many benefits in the short, medium, and long term to the industrial companies that decide to implement them:

  • Up to 25% increase in employee productivity using the available tools.
  • Improved training and preparation for complex tasks that require several steps for their execution.
  • Optimization of direct costs by up to 15%, thanks to the remote assistance that avoids the displacement of your staff and their physical presence and on the other hand through the training of employees.
  • Guarantees quality, a better service will be offered by expert staff.
  • Digitization and automation of processes will allow the standardization of most of the processes.
  • Optimize your production chain by obtaining statistics through the proposed tools that will allow you to analyze processes and make decisions about them.

In addition, Bravent is the only supplier in Spain that has the Hololens2 device integrated into the Trimble XR helmet that complies with the certifications and approvals for use in industrial spaces.

Therefore, it is a safe bet to improve processes and optimize costs with one of the technologies that have grown the most in recent years and that adds value from the first minute to the industrial sector.