MTU Friedrichshafen is a global manufacturer of large diesel engines and complete propulsion systems owned by Rolls Royce. Their primary requirement was to introduce hands-on workplace safety and guidance manuals for their engineers working on the plant through a customized application for Google-glass. They contacted IndiaNIC, to create an app that would provide safety manuals, engine assembly videos, training tutorials and overall ability to perform tasks using the touchpad located on the side of the google-glass device.
Wearable solutions can bring tremendous benefits to the manufacturing industry by providing instructions to engineers, putting an end to the use of tedious paper manuals.
However, while wearable technology is often viewed from a consumer-first perspective, it also comes with a huge business opportunity for big manufacturing companies. For example, Boeing took advantage of wearables for providing instructions to engineers, putting an end to the use of paper manuals. Although there were breakthroughs, wearables were never fully integrated on the factory floor. Half of the manufacturers are yet to adopt wearable technology by 2022. Our client MTU, one of the few savvy manufactures was an early adopter of this technology, identifying and investing aggressively for a smarter and digitized plant floor to achieve greater operational visibility and enhance production quality.
When the client first approached IndiaNIC with the task of designing and developing a custom google-glass enterprise app, our team of tech leads and designers did a detailed requirement gathering of the features and functionalities that were needed to suffice in an assembly line manufacturing system. A google-glass displays an interface on the screen which can be controlled by a tiny touchpad located on the side of the device, allowing users to control it by sliding it and accessing information, images & video content.
We designed the app keeping in mind the device’s ability to understand multi-language while users could perform tasks without touching the touchpad and complete the required actions through the microphone installed on the device. Our team of designers made various versions of the cards UI, to best fit the requirements of the custom app that could be used for hands-free operations in many large scale manufacturing units across the globe.
Our team of dedicated experts collaborated with MTU to deliver a Handsfree Solution to increase productivity.
The connected factory of the future truly starts becoming a reality. Hence, our client MTU was quick to adapt to this thriving breakthrough of devices in the manufacturing industry with the help of a custom glass app developed by our team. We not only developed a functional and operational application but also helped our client leverage all the benefits of the Google-glass technology by custom feature integrations.