Augmented Reality Reduces Costs and Errors
How Pharmaceutical Manufacturers can save Millions with Augmented work instructions
A highly specialized workforce is a cornerstone of your business. It’s also a substantial source of escalating costs and pressure. The skills gap and increasing complexity of the drug production process are causing global workforce challenges.
Skilled experts are exiting the workforce at an accelerated rate.
Strict regulations drive higher numbers of lengthy, difficult standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Training and upskilling employees is a long and costly process.
Poor instruction and human error can incur punishing costs.
Solve Your workforce Crisis with augmented work instructions
When it comes to improving employee understanding and knowledge retention for complex tasks, studies have established
AR is faster and more effective than traditional training and instruction methods.
Pharma organizations using visual AR-guided instructions to enable greater workforce accuracy and productivity will realize substantial bottom-line savings, which will grow significantly as the solution scales.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers:
Workforce Efficiency Savings
Manufacturer
For pharmaceutical manufacturers, high operating costs are driven by human error, inefficient and time-consuming training methods, and compliance risks. As a result, they are focused on three specific priorities to reach key business goals:
Standardizing
Operations
Eliminating
Errors
Accelerating
Training
Improvement Opportunities
Substantial inefficiencies are reduced by focusing on three specific challenges:
Imbalance of experts to processes
Line clearance
Paper-based
SOPs
Paper-based SOPs
The high number of SOPs being created causes a huge maintenance burden. Employees use complex paper-based instructions, which lead to errors
The growing number of complex processes requires more effective knowledge transfer from departing experts to the frontline.
Measuring the Value of augmented work instructions
A global pharmaceutical manufacturer addressed its workforce challenges with PTC’s Vuforia Expert Capture Enterprise AR solution. Realizing a rapid ROI, the manufacturer is now on track to scale across its organization and reap the following savings per facility:
$1.2m
$3.6M
$3.37m
$18m
$1.4m
Benefit
result
Increased throughput
Reduced unscheduled downtime
Decrease errors and scrap
Reduced compliance risks
Improved training effectiveness
Increase top-line revenue
Accelerate time-to-market
Improve First-Time-Right quality
Ensure SOPs are followed correctly
Reduce time to competency & productivity
$27m
Total potential value of single-facility savings
Learn more about how PTC can transform pharma operations through Vuforia Augmented Work and Training Instructions:
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Vuforia
Expert Capture
Discover the AR solution that enables organizations like yours with transformational capabilities that deliver significant improvements over traditional instruction methods. Vuforia Expert Capture allows tacit expert knowledge to be easily captured and efficiently scaled across the organization – eliminating errors, standardizing operations, and accelerating training.
Imbalance of experts to processes
Line clearance
Improper line clearance can lead to significant revenue loss due to shutting down operations from batch contamination.
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Skilled expertise is a cornerstone of your business. It’s also a substantial source of increasing costs and pressure. Industries across most verticals are confronting global workforce challenges:
To improve employee understanding and knowledge retention for complex tasks, studies have established that vs. traditional training and instruction methods,
Pharma organizations using visual AR-guided instructions to enable greater workforce accuracy and productivity will realize substantial bottom-line savings, which will see significant growth as the solution scales.
AR is faster and
more effective.
Solve Your workforce Crisis with augmented work instructions
Total potential value of single-facility savings
$27m
Measuring the Impact of augmented work instructions
This global pharmaceutical manufacturer addressed their workforce challenges with PTC's Vuforia Expert Capture Enterprise AR Solution. Realizing a rapid ROI, they are now on track to scale across their organization and reap the following savings, per facility.
© 2019, PTC Inc. (PTC). All rights reserved. Information described herein is furnished for informational use only,is subject to change without notice, and should not be taken as a guarantee, commitment, or offer by PTC. PTC,the PTC logo, and all PTC product names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of PTC and/or itssubsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other product or company names are property of theirrespective owners. The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to changeat PTC’s discretion.
Learn more about how PTC can transform pharma operations through Vuforia Augmented Work and Training Instructions:
Learn More
Vuforia
Expert Capture
Discover the AR solution that enables organizations like yours with transformational capabilities that deliver significant improvements over traditional instruction methods. Vuforia Expert Capture allows tacit expert knowledge to be easily captured and efficiently scaled across the organization – eliminating errors, standardizing operations, and accelerating training.
Benefit
result
$1.2m
Improved training effectiveness
Increased labor productivity
$3.6M
Reduced compliance risks
Ensure SOPs are followed correctly
$18m
Decreased errors and scrap
Improve First-Time-Right quality
$3.37m
Reduced unscheduled downtime
Accelerate time-to-market
$1.4m
.5% Increased Production Capacity
Lower 3rd-Party Vendor Costs
Poor instruction and human error can incur punishing costs.
Training and upskilling novices is a long and costly process.
Products are increasingly complex to build, operate and service.
Skilled experts are exiting the workforce at an accelerating rate.
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Accelerating
Training
Errors
Eliminating
Standardizing
Operations
Source: PTC customer results
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