Vuforia Expert Capture Reduces Scrap
How a High-Tech Manufacturer is Saving Millions with Industrial AR
Skilled expertise is a cornerstone of your business. It’s also a substantial source of increasing costs and pressure. Manufacturing businesses across many verticals are confronting global workforce challenges:
Skilled experts are exiting the workforce at an accelerating rate.
Products are increasingly complex to build, operate and service.
Training and upskilling novices is a long and costly process.
Poor instruction and human error can incur punishing costs.
Solve Your Skills Crisis with Industrial AR
Cognitive studies have established that vs. traditional training and guidance methods,
A PTC customer is using an AR-enabled workforce efficiency solution to realize substantial bottom-line savings, which will see significant growth as the solution scales.
AR is faster and
more effective.
A PTC customer is using an AR-enabled workforce productivity solution to realize substantial bottom-line savings, which will see significant growth as the solution scales.
Workforce Efficiency Savings:
High-Tech
Manufacturing
For producers of high-tech manufacturing goods, high operating costs are driven by complex products and skilled labor. A PTC customer in high-tech manufacturing focused on three specific priorities to reach key business goals:
Increase
asset uptime
Decrease
scrap & rework
Reduce
overall labor costs
Identifying Improvement Opportunities
By focusing on three specific challenges, they identified substantial inefficiencies:
How a High-Tech Manufacturer is Saving Millions with Industrial AR
Content creation standards
Return on training investments
Manual documentation
Manual documentation
Printed manuals and guides are difficult and costly to produce, update, and distribute. Scaling to document product variants and to localize for global workers drives additional costs.
Content creation standards
Documentation lacks uniformity and structure, and may not even be available, leading to user error, downtime, scrap, and rework costs.
Return on training investments
Training costs are high, processes are slow, and first-time employee performance could be improved.
Measuring the Impact of Workforce Productivity
PTC helped this manufacturer address these opportunities through a workforce productivity solution enabled by Vuforia Expert Capture. Realizing a rapid ROI, they are now on track to scale across their organization. Once complete, the customer has projected the following savings, which are per facility.
$40k
$500k
$15m
$15m
$5m
Benefit
result
.5% Increased Production Capacity
28% Less Unscheduled Downtime
25% Less Scrap & Rework
50% Less Authoring Time
40% Faster Training Time
Lower 3rd-Party Vendor Costs
Lower Capital Equipment Costs
Lower Scrap Costs
Reduced Headcount
Reduced Attrition
$40m
Total Potential Value
(per facility)
Learn more about how PTC can transform your bottom line through AR-enabled workforce optimization:
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Vuforia
Expert Capture
Discover the AR technology that enables organizations like yours to quickly produce and scale AR experiences that increase worker productivity. Vuforia Expert Capture requires no pre-existing training manuals, documentation, or digital design files to build and deliver effective AR-based instruction and training tools.
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