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Airbus Soars with Wearable Technology

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Technology Category	Wearables - Augmented Reality Glasses, Headsets & Controllers
Applicable Industries	Aerospace
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization
Challenge	Building an Airbus aircraft involves complex manufacturing processes consisting of thousands of moving parts. Speed and accuracy are critical to business and competitive advantage. Improvements in both would have high impact on Airbus’ bottom line. Airbus wanted to help operators reduce the complexity of assembling cabin seats and decrease the time required to complete this task. Read More
About Customer	The Airbus Group is a global pioneer in aeronautics, space and defense-related services, creating cutting-edge technology. Read More
Customer Name	Airbus Read More
Solution	Wearable technology proved to be a relevant solution for a manufacturing environment and provides instant access to critical information, enabling improved productivity and increased operator satisfaction while reducing training requirements. Using contextual marking instructions, the smart glasses display all required information for an operator to help mark the floor faster and reduce errors to zero. In addition, the eyewear technology, implemented by Accenture, also offers interactivity by granting access to features including barcode scanning, data retrieval from the cloud, voice command and augmented reality. Using this innovation technology, all aircrafts’ seat locations can be marked down to the last millimeter and checked for accuracy and quality. Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Accuracy, Man Hours, Operator Compliance, Process Procedure, Production Efficiency Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Wearables - Augmented Reality Glasses, Headsets & Controllers

Applicable Industries

Aerospace

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Challenge

Building an Airbus aircraft involves complex manufacturing processes consisting of thousands of moving parts. Speed and accuracy are critical to business and competitive advantage. Improvements in both would have high impact on Airbus’ bottom line. Airbus wanted to help operators reduce the complexity of assembling cabin seats and decrease the time required to complete this task.

About Customer

The Airbus Group is a global pioneer in aeronautics, space and defense-related services, creating cutting-edge technology.

Customer Name

Airbus

Solution

Wearable technology proved to be a relevant solution for a manufacturing environment and provides instant access to critical information, enabling improved productivity and increased operator satisfaction while reducing training requirements. Using contextual marking instructions, the smart glasses display all required information for an operator to help mark the floor faster and reduce errors to zero. In addition, the eyewear technology, implemented by Accenture, also offers interactivity by granting access to features including barcode scanning, data retrieval from the cloud, voice command and augmented reality. Using this innovation technology, all aircrafts’ seat locations can be marked down to the last millimeter and checked for accuracy and quality.

Data Collected

Accuracy, Man Hours, Operator Compliance, Process Procedure, Production Efficiency

Impact #1	[Cost Reduction - Training] Increased flexibility with reduced training needs. Training requirements are reduced as operators receive data from the smart glasses in real time without needing to rely on a manual.
Impact #2	[Efficiency Improvement - Labor] Improved ergonomics and increased operator satisfaction.

Impact #1

[Cost Reduction - Training]
Increased flexibility with reduced training needs. Training requirements are reduced as operators receive data from the smart glasses in real time without needing to rely on a manual.

Impact #2

[Efficiency Improvement - Labor]
Improved ergonomics and increased operator satisfaction.

Benefit #1	Error rate reduced to zero.
Benefit #2	500% increase in productivity.

Benefit #1

Error rate reduced to zero.

Benefit #2

500% increase in productivity.

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Airbus Soars with Wearable Technology

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