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Boeing Cuts Production Time by 25% with Skylight on Glass

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Virtual & Augmented Reality Software Wearables - Augmented Reality Glasses, Headsets & Controllers
Applicable Industries	Aerospace
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Augmented Reality
Challenge	130 miles of wiring go into every new Boeing 747-8 Freighter, tucked away overhead and underfoot from the cockpit to the wheel wells. Every Boeing aircraft, from the workhorse 737 to the new 787 Dreamliner, has multiple configurations, each with its own wiring scheme. In past years, technicians used “phone books” full of diagrams to do their work. Even with laptops, the same basic problem arised: constant look-away interruptions as workers got directions and cross-checked diagrams and schematics. Read More
About Customer	The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.The company also provides leasing and product supp Read More
Customer Name	Boeing Read More
Solution	Skylight gives Boeing’s technicians the instructions they need right in their viewfinder. No need to look away or tap a laptop: they can move through multiple prompts with voice commands, the Glass touchpad, and the head tracking interface. A simple voice command like “local search 1-8-6-A” calls up the correct step-by-step schematic for every last wire. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Virtual & Augmented Reality Software

Wearables - Augmented Reality Glasses, Headsets & Controllers

Applicable Industries

Aerospace

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Augmented Reality

Challenge

130 miles of wiring go into every new Boeing 747-8 Freighter, tucked away overhead and underfoot from the cockpit to the wheel wells.

Every Boeing aircraft, from the workhorse 737 to the new 787 Dreamliner, has multiple configurations, each with its own wiring scheme. In past years, technicians used “phone books” full of diagrams to do their work. Even with laptops, the same basic problem arised: constant look-away interruptions as workers got directions and cross-checked diagrams and schematics.

About Customer

The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.The company also provides leasing and product supp

Customer Name

Boeing

Solution

Skylight gives Boeing’s technicians the instructions they need right in their viewfinder. No need to look away or tap a laptop: they can move through multiple prompts with voice commands, the Glass touchpad, and the head tracking interface. A simple voice command like “local search 1-8-6-A” calls up the correct step-by-step schematic for every last wire.

Impact #1	[Efficiency Improvement - Operation] Bar code readers and the Glass cameras help identify and confirm wiring inventory. When extra help is needed, workers turn on Skylight’s “See What I See” video stream and share their view with engineers or other remote experts. Technicians can also look at how-to videos right in their field of view, keeping their hands free to do the work.

Impact #1

[Efficiency Improvement - Operation]
Bar code readers and the Glass cameras help identify and confirm wiring inventory. When extra help is needed, workers turn on Skylight’s “See What I See” video stream and share their view with engineers or other remote experts. Technicians can also look at how-to videos right in their field of view, keeping their hands free to do the work.

Benefit #1	With Skylight, Boeing cut its wiring production time by 25% and reduced error rates effectively to zero.

Benefit #1

With Skylight, Boeing cut its wiring production time by 25% and reduced error rates effectively to zero.

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Boeing Cuts Production Time by 25% with Skylight on Glass

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