Digital Mentor
Pair every worker with an expert in the form of an AR Digital Mentor to accelerate onboarding and improve productivity.
Challenges of the modern workforce
Retiring experts take their knowledge
Twenty-five percent of manufacturing workers are aged 55 or over, and these subject matter experts have spent their entire careers building their knowledge and guiding new workers. Much of their knowledge doesn’t exist in paper documents, but in their heads, making it impossible to share it across the organization. Their accumulated experience leaves the business with them if not captured effectively.
Fewer workers and higher attrition
The pool of skilled workers to choose from is becoming smaller. A poor perception of manufacturing and a push for non-trade skills combined with high attrition rates means companies barely get their new hires production-ready before they move on to another organization. This costs the business valuable time and money.
Increasing product and process complexity
As more companies embrace innovation in their machinery, products and processes are becoming increasingly complex, making it difficult for new hires. The current processes to create and document instructions and knowledge are cumbersome, slow, and often inaccurate. Seventy-seven percent of frontline workers say that they do not have the right tools to be more productive.
What is a Digital Mentor?
A Digital Mentor can capture knowledge from your seasoned experts and share it across your organization, providing your workforce with clear, in-context digital instructions. For frontline workers, it’s like having an expert by their side all day—without impacting a real expert’s productivity.
How Digital Mentors works
A Digital Mentor offers companies a way to effectively capture the knowledge of their experts and scale it out across their organization. It can be further enhanced with 3D models and live data, offering key insights into your workforce productivity.
Capture and distribute knowledge
When an expert employee retires, they take their knowledge with them. In many cases, this knowledge has never been formally documented. Using a Digital Mentor solution enables experts to capture step-by-step procedures and hands-free voice commands, while they are carrying out their work. It makes recording procedures much easier than traditional methods. These instructions can then be easily formatted and distributed across the organization.
Standardize and improve
An intuitive interface simplifies the creation of AR work instructions with drag-and-drop templates. Authors can add and edit photos, videos, schematics, and even location awareness to further enhance the work instructions. These more accurate instructions can be scaled out and used as the standard across the entire organization. This way, new hires at different facilities are all getting the same experience and best industry practices regardless of location.
Monitor and analyze
Easy content organization
Connect to business systems
Steps for successful digital transformation
Digital transformation doesn’t need to happen all at once. Not every new and impactful technology has to be adopted at the same time—in fact, taking things slowly and strategically can be beneficial for long-term adoption. Start with digitizing your work instructions, scaling out new tools, then integrating new ones as you move toward a connected workforce.
Case studies
Vuforia Studio is a flexible, efficient AR authoring solution that can leverage existing product data to create immersive 3D AR experiences.
Vuforia Expert Capture is a SaaS AR solution to improve worker efficiency with domain expertise captured on the job and AI-enhanced visual inspection.
Vuforia Chalk brings technicians and experts together for real-time problem-solving with clear AR annotations that stick to the physical world.