Augmentir’s massive growth through customer satisfaction, enhanced value through partnerships, unmatched customer support, innovation focus, and brand loyalty drive Its strong leadership focus.

April 25, 2023 – Frost & Sullivan recently assessed the connected worker solutions industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Augmentir with the 2023 Global Company of the Year Award. The company provides the only artificial intelligence (AI)-powered connected worker platform for the industrial sector. Augmentir has earned an impeccable reputation for delivering unparalleled value by optimizing digital workflows and enhancing quality, performance, and safety. With its exceptional blend of leadership, heritage, and innovation, the company is positioned as a preferred partner in the connected worker arena.

Augmentir named connected worker company of the year by frost and sullivan

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Augmentir’s AI-powered connected worker platform enables customers to experience significant enhancements in performance, optimized processes, heightened safety, and increased compliance with regulatory requirements. The platform complements customers’ existing enterprise software solutions, allowing it to integrate seamlessly with existing enterprise systems to optimize end-to-end workflows for a truly connected frontline workforce. Unlike other connected worker platforms, Augmentir’s solution offers a hosted set of integration services to allow deep integration with existing business processes within Augmentir’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. Augmentir continually enhances its customer value, garnering widespread recognition, evidenced by its customer loyalty and accolades from research analysts.

“Augmentir’s solutions are AI-powered at their core; this is a huge differentiation factor as all other competitors’ platforms lack this foundational capability,” stated Michelle Funke, Best Practices Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. “The company takes a four-pronged approach to connected work by targeting skills management, digital workflows, collaboration, and knowledge sharing to bring end-to-end results for industrial organizations and employees.”

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Augmentir’s AI-driven solutions foster a connected workforce, generating extensive data that enables customers to deliver more tailored and precise work instructions and guidance. The technology facilitates more streamlined and effective communication, contributing to ongoing safety and quality improvements. Augmentir’s skills management capabilities, unlike traditional solutions, oversee worker certifications, endorsements, and permits to enhance safety and compliance with government regulations, thereby broadening Augmentir’s market reach and expanding the scope of its functionality. Augmentir sustains strong customer relationships to guarantee ongoing satisfaction and maintain a vital connection to the market, empowering it to respond effectively to emerging trends and pain points.

“Augmentir’s unwavering commitment to customer value, innovation, and quality solutions has propelled its substantial growth, despite recent macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges. The company tripled its revenue last year, acquired dozens of new customers, secured several multi-year contracts with existing clients, and recently announced a new round of funding,” added Sebastian Trolli, Senior Industry Analyst, Industrial Technologies at Frost & Sullivan. For its customer-centric strategies, best practices implementation, and strong overall performance, Augmentir earns Frost & Sullivan’s 2023 Global Company of the Year Award in the connected worker solutions industry.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents one Company of the Year Award to the organization that demonstrates excellence, in terms of growth strategy and implementation in its field. The award recognizes a high degree of innovation with products and technologies and the resulting leadership, in terms of customer value and market penetration.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

 

 

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About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only Smart Connected Worker solution. Augmentir’s software includes a complete suite of connected worker capabilities, connectors to business systems, and broad extensibility that enable manufacturers to digitize their frontline operations, reduce onboarding time, and increase workforce productivity. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage Augmentir’s suite of tools to deliver effective skills management, training, digital workflow, and collaboration for today’s more dynamic industrial workforce. For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com

Augmentir announces its latest funding round and continued organizational growth to help power the future manufacturing workforce with AI.

April 18, 2023Augmentir, provider of the world’s only AI-based connected worker solution, announced today that it has completed a new financing round and is expanding its team to support the company’s accelerating growth.

Augmentir is known for its one-of-a-kind, industry-leading connected worker technology, that harnesses the power of AI to digitize and optimize frontline work based on worker capability and task complexity. This technology adds precision to workforce development by helping manufacturers identify opportunities to improve training and optimize upskilling and reskilling programs. In February, Augmentir announced that it expanded its AI platform to incorporate Generative AI and other foundational technologies underpinning ChatGPT. This addition represents another step forward in the company’s AI-first journey, and unlocks even greater potential for manufacturers looking to improve support for their frontline workforce.

The new financing round, led by Gardner Lewis Asset Management, includes participation from Lerer Hippeau, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and the Company’s founding team. The investment will be used to expand Augmentir’s global sales and marketing efforts while accelerating product development and innovation.

“We’re thrilled to be able to raise capital at a significant increase in Augmentir’s valuation, at a time when peers are struggling in the market,” said Russ Fadel, CEO of Augmentir. “Our exponential growth is a result of our commanding AI-based competitive advantage, and has given us a leadership position in the Connected Worker space.”

In addition to the funding news, Augmentir has also announced organizational growth, including two new additions to the Company’s leadership team. Kiyomi Otani joins the team as Vice President of Operations bringing with her two decades of experience in technology leadership. Carsten Hunfeld, who previously led Augmentir’s sales efforts in the DACH region, will become the Company’s Director for EMEA, as the Company ramps up its efforts in that region. Augmentir experienced an employee growth rate of over 50% in the last twelve months to advance its mission of empowering frontline workers with next-generation software solutions.

Augmentir’s suite of AI-powered connected worker tools helps industrial companies deliver effective skills management, training, digital workflow, and collaboration for today’s more dynamic industrial workforce. These capabilities, built on top of Augmentir’s patented “Smart” AI foundation, close the loop between training and work execution to deliver the data and in-line insights necessary to continuously improve operational excellence day-over-day, year-over-year.

 

About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only Smart Connected Worker solution. Augmentir’s software includes a complete suite of connected worker capabilities, connectors to business systems, and broad extensibility that enable manufacturers to digitize their frontline operations, reduce onboarding time, and increase workforce productivity. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage Augmentir’s suite of tools to deliver effective skills management, training, digital workflow, and collaboration for today’s more dynamic industrial workforce. For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com.

Integration between SAP PM and Augmentir’s AI-powered connected worker solution delivers smarter plant maintenance and operational intelligence for manufacturing plants.

April 6, 2023Augmentir, the provider of the world’s only AI-based connected worker solution, announced today the availability of its Smart Connected Worker Solution for SAP® Plant Maintenance (PM). This solution connects SAP PM with shop floor workers leveraging AI-based mobile tools to help digitize and optimize maintenance teams and uses Augmentir’s built-in Smart AI for advanced workforce analytics and optimization insights.

For manufacturers using the SAP Plant Maintenance module, Augmentir’s solution extends the capabilities of SAP PM to the factory floor, creating a single, universal interface for frontline teams to optimize and personalize work orders, standard operating procedures, and maintenance requests. When used in conjunction with Augmentir’s Autonomous Maintenance/TPM module, companies have a complete picture of every asset’s maintenance and reliability history, helping reduce equipment downtime and improve the overall reliability of their assets.

Many Fortune 500 manufacturing companies, including Colgate-Palmolive, already use Augmentir with SAP PM to deliver optimized maintenance programs.

Gabriel Solomon, Digitization & Smart Technology Engineer at Colgate-Palmolive stated “Augmentir’s ease of use and seamless integration into Colgate’s global SAP instance helped us digitize our maintenance, changeover, and EHS LOTO procedures, as well as quality checklists via digital, guided workflows. As a result of using Augmentir, we’ve seen up to 30 minutes saved per shift, and as much as 120 minutes reduced between maintenance notification and maintenance order closure.”

Manufacturers will see the following benefits:

  • Increased “wrench-time” by 16% due to more efficient execution of work orders and elimination of manual data entry
  • Increased first-time fix rates by 17% and decreased unplanned downtime by 21% due to improved maintenance compliance
  • Rich, interactive work instructions, personalized to each technician to enable them to perform at their very best
  • Improved collaboration between people and assets to create a true digital thread
  • Built-in AI that immediately optimizes shop floor activities and provides guidance for targeted continuous improvement efforts

“Our AI-powered solution for SAP Plant Maintenance goes far beyond mobilizing plant maintenance functionality: we are transforming how manufacturers digitize and optimize their maintenance programs,” said Russ Fadel, CEO and co-founder at Augmentir. “Augmentir personalizes the maintenance instructions to the needs of each maintenance technician, enabling each worker to perform at their individual best, increasing maintenance efficiency and reducing MTTR. Additionally, Augmentir uses AI to process the data streaming off of these maintenance activities and provides automated insights into productivity and workforce development opportunities, creating a foundation for continuous improvement. This is the future of plant maintenance.”

Augmentir also recently announced an expansion to its AI platform, which unlocks even greater potential for manufacturers looking to digitize and optimize their frontline operations. Augmentir’s purpose-built AI, which is focused on industrial operational insights, combined with Generative AI and other emerging foundation models, enhances the value that manufacturers can achieve with Augmentir, helping them uncover new opportunities to improve productivity and optimize their operations.

 

About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only Smart Connected Worker solution. Augmentir’s software includes a complete suite of connected worker capabilities, connectors to business systems, and broad extensibility that enable manufacturers to digitize their frontline operations, reduce onboarding time, and increase workforce productivity. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage Augmentir’s suite of tools to deliver effective skills management, training, digital workflow, and collaboration for today’s more dynamic industrial workforce. For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com.

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The company adopts Augmentir’s AI-powered Connected Worker platform to empower its manufacturing workforce and improve operational efficiency

HORSHAM, PA – September 9, 2020 Augmentir, Inc., the leading provider of artificial intelligence-based connected worker software for industrial companies, announced today that Hunter Industries, a global manufacturer of products for the irrigation, outdoor lighting, dispensing technology, and custom manufacturing sectors, has selected Augmentir as its next-generation Connected Worker platform for its manufacturing operations.

Hunter offers a full spectrum of water- and energy-efficient solutions for residential, commercial, municipal, and agricultural applications. The company’s diverse array of products can be seen all over the world. Hunter prides itself on core values of customer satisfaction, innovation, social responsibility, and valuing employees. The selection of Augmentir’s connected worker platform reinforces those themes, allowing Hunter to deliver digital tools that help their manufacturing workforce perform at their best and improve overall efficiency. The company’s initial focus for Augmentir is on their injection Molding and Extrusion departments, where changeover processes often lead to lengthy downtime.

Augmentir’s software platform allows Hunter to:

  • Digitize and standardize on work instructions for manufacturing, changeover, and quality assurance (QA) procedures
  • Create and deploy work instructions at a faster rate
  • Accelerate onboarding and provide on-the-job instant training for technicians
  • Gather instant feedback from their technicians as they perform tasks
  • Reduce scrap and prevent unplanned downtime and quality issues within its manufacturing operation
  • Provide remote guidance tools for technicians, allowing them to virtually connect with subject matter experts to help resolve manufacturing or maintenance issues

“The use of Augmentir within our manufacturing operation highlights our commitment to our people and innovation in the workplace,” stated Yunior Murillo, Operations Training Supervisor at Hunter Industries. “Augmentir’s platform allows our technicians to perform at their best while improving efficiency across our manufacturing department. Additionally, the operational insights provided by Augmentir’s AI allow us to focus our training efforts on individuals that need them most and intelligently guide our technicians in their day-to-day activities.”

The Augmentir Connected Worker Platform is a comprehensive suite of AI-powered tools designed to help manufacturing and service teams improve operations, close skills gaps, capture tribal knowledge, and drive continuous improvement efforts. The platform provides tools to help teams author and publish digital work instructions and workflows and also provides an industrial remote assistance and collaboration solution to support remote expert guidance scenarios. In addition, the platform delivers AI-based organization-wide insights and recommendations that focus on improving the quality and productivity of frontline workers.

“We are excited to work with Hunter and bring an innovative connected worker technology to its manufacturing operation,” stated Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder of Augmentir. “Our AI-based Connected Worker platform helps industrial companies to intelligently close skills gaps so that the entire workforce can perform at its peak.”

Hunter plans to expand its use of Augmentir across its operation and into its maintenance group, furthering the workforce efficiency and continuous improvement benefits that the platform offers.

 

About Hunter Industries

Hunter Industries is a global manufacturer of products for the irrigation, landscape lighting, custom manufacturing, and dispensing technology sectors. Founded in 1981, the family-owned company offers more than 1,000 products, including a complete spectrum of water-efficient solutions for residential, commercial, golf course, and agricultural irrigation systems. Hunter’s core mission will always remain the same: to deliver valued products and services, grow the company conscientiously, and remain true to the culture that make its employees proud to work at Hunter.

About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only AI-Powered Connected Worker platform for industrial companies. Augmentir is the first of its kind to combine enterprise augmented reality (AR) with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to intelligently close skills gaps so that frontline workers can perform their jobs with higher quality and increased productivity while driving continuous improvement across the organization. Augmentir is being used to help intelligently guide and support frontline workers in a wide range of industrial use cases – from manufacturing teams on the shop floor to service and repair teams out in the field. For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com.

In support of their global digital transformation efforts, Colgate-Palmolive’s Global Supply Chain group had been exploring tools to digitize equipment changeover and maintenance operations and have selected Augmentir’s Connected Worker Platform.

In support of their global digital transformation efforts, Colgate-Palmolive’s Global Supply Chain group had been exploring tools to digitize equipment changeover and maintenance operations plus integrate into Colgate’s SAP ERP and MES Wonderware Systems and have selected Augmentir’s Connected Worker Platform.

Augmentir’s “AI-based” Connected Worker Platform offers connected worker technology with augmented work instructions. Equipped with digital devices that could include tablets, mobile phones, or even AR-enabled industrial smart glasses, frontline workers are able to receive fully augmented, guided instructions on any device to improve productivity, quality and allow workers to perform their jobs more independently. These help guide workers with visual aids, AR/MR experiences, and contextual information.

Significant Results in 6 Short Months

Since the selection of Augmentir in November 2020, Colgate has already seen tremendous progress towards its goals, and deployment has helped enable people at each of our global plants to build, maintain, and share their own localized content, plus boost adoption and productivity.

According to Colgate-Palmolive: “Augmentir platform’s ease of use and broad applicability to different scenarios helped to enable people at each of our global plants to build, maintain, and share their own localized content, and has boosted adoption”. Their results include:

  • 1060+ Digital WorkFlows created across 10 Plants (maintenance procedure, workflow, changeover, shift change
  • More than 16,500 Workflow executions and 500+ Procedures optimized
  • 10-30 minutes saved per shift
  • As much as 120 minutes reduced between Maintenance Notification and Maintenance Order Closure (Maintenance Execution Time)
  • Advanced statistics available for integration with other CP datasets for future integrations and improvements
  • Actual Maintenance Work Order times automatically captured and recorded in SAP PM, increasing the accuracy of maintenance planning and scheduling for sites utilizing SAP integration

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Colgate-Palmolive Accelerates Digitization in Manufacturing Operations

New AI capabilities represent another step forward in the company’s AI-first journey, delivering innovations for the manufacturing industry.

February 28, 2023 Augmentir, the provider of the world’s only AI-based connected worker solution, announced today that it is expanding its AI platform to incorporate the foundational technologies underpinning ChatGPT. These new capabilities will improve the company’s existing True Productivity™ and True Proficiency™ offerings while accelerating the introduction of its True Engagement™ offering. These three unique, patented capabilities enable industrial companies to thrive in this era of workforce disruption while safeguarding customer data and maintaining privacy.

Augmentir’s platform has become the leading connected worker solution in the industrial sector, offering a wide range of out-of-the-box capabilities, connectors to business systems, and broad extensibility that enable manufacturers to digitize all their frontline operations, reducing onboarding time, and increasing workforce productivity. The platform’s AI-based tools, which include machine learning algorithms and natural language processing, help workers to access the right information at the right time and enable managers to optimize their workforce’s performance.

“We’re excited to be adding the foundational technologies of ChatGPT into our platform,” said Russ Fadel, CEO of Augmentir. “This will build on our experience of delivering AI-driven insights to industrial companies since 2019. We are uniquely positioned to bring these technologies to the market quickly, and in a manner that places our customers’ privacy and IP as a top priority. Adding the ability to communicate with the platform using natural language will make it even easier for our customers to access the information they need and engage with their colleagues. When combined with our existing AI-based features, this will further improve the overall efficiency and productivity of their operations, leading to better business outcomes.”

This expansion unlocks even greater potential for manufacturers looking to digitize and optimize their frontline operations. Augmentir’s purpose-built AI, which is focused on industrial operational insights, combined with Generative AI and other emerging foundation models, enhances the value that manufacturers can achieve with Augmentir, helping them uncover new opportunities to improve productivity and optimize their operations.

The new capabilities will be available to select Augmentir customers in the coming months, with a commercial release expected in late 2023.

To learn more about Augmentir, please visit www.augmentir.com/ai.

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About Augmentir

Augmentir is a leading provider of connected worker software solutions for industrial companies. The company’s AI-based platform speeds the onboarding of new workers, while dynamically closing skills gaps at the moment of need leading to improved efficiency, productivity, and safety. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage Augmentir’s suite of tools to deliver more intelligent skills management, training, collaboration, and on the job support for today’s more dynamic, more flexible industrial workforce. For more information, visit www.augmentir.com

 

Industry’s only true SaaS platform enables industrial companies of all sizes to deploy a highly secure remote collaboration solution designed for the needs of the frontline workforce

HORSHAM, PA – February 16, 2021 Augmentir, Inc., the leading provider of artificial intelligence-based connected worker software, today announced multiple mid-market companies have selected Augmentir Remote Assist as a remote collaboration solution for their frontline teams. Companies large and small continue to rely on Augmentir to connect and digitize their frontline workforces and deliver cost-effective remote worker assistance with minimal effort and virtually no IT overhead costs. The continued adoption of Augmentir’s connected worker platform within the mid-market sector is evidence that industrial companies of all sizes are continuing to shift towards digitizing their frontline work processes as a way to operate in today’s new normal.

Augmentir’s Remote Assist tool, a component of the company’s market leading AI-Powered Connected Worker platform, is an industrial collaboration solution designed to help frontline workers and end customers virtually collaborate and get assistance from subject matter experts, wherever they are located. The solution is available on both mobile devices and augmented reality (AR) enabled smart glasses, and allows users to remotely collaborate through chat, document exchange, and live video streaming with AR-based annotations.

Augmentir Remote Assist gives companies the ability to:

  • Connect frontline workers to internal or external subject matter experts: Help keep employees safe and avoid travel by allowing on-site workers to remotely collaborate with internal subject matter experts or OEM technicians without requiring onsite visits.
  • Connect customers to internal support teams: Keep internal support teams safe by remotely collaborating with customers to help quickly diagnose and troubleshoot issues.

“The continued adoption of Augmentir’s connected worker platform is evidence that industrial companies of all sizes are embracing innovation and continuing to shift towards innovative technology as a way to operate in today’s new normal,” stated Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder of Augmentir. “Our AI-based Connected Worker platform is designed for companies of all sizes to digitize all aspects of their frontline operations. This is especially important in the COVID era.”

Timber Building Systems and Luminance are among the industrial companies that have recently made the move to Augmentir’s connected worker solution as part of their digital transformation efforts.

Timber Building Systems (TBS, www.tbsaus.com.au), is revolutionizing the building industry with their unique post-tensioned pre-manufactured timber building system destined for residential, commercial and multi-story construction. The innovative system provides TBS’s clients with a sustainable solution, fast turnaround, exceptional architectural design flexibility, high quality, customer service, and lower overall costs.

“Our team needed a cost-effective solution that allowed us to deliver remote assistance and guidance for contractors performing on-site assembly and installation, domestically and internationally,” stated Rob Ravlic, Project Engineer at TBS. “We were able to implement the system quickly with Augmentir, and their Remote Assist solution allowed us to deliver the appropriate remote guidance to our teams, helping us avoid costly site visits and ensure the safety of our team. The solution allows us to continue to deliver excellent quality, quick installation, and lower overall costs to our clients.”

Visit www.tbsaus.com.au for more information on their revolutionary building system.

Luminance (www.luminance.net) helps organizations optimize their most important asset—their people. The company designs customized training, identifies and solves performance problems, and delivers high-value, customized courses.

“Real-time communication and collaboration with our clients is critical to the success of our business, and we need a tool that allows us to remotely deliver our services to our clients in a cost-effective manner,” stated Jeremy Robins of Luminance. “Augmentir’s Remote Assist platform enables us to remotely collaborate with our clients and provide virtual training and support, saving us precious time and eliminating unnecessary travel costs. Their platform has been a real life saver for our teams during these times.”

Augmentir’s Remote Assist is being used to digitize operations across a range of industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and consumer packaged goods manufacturing, as well as utilities, oil and gas, mining, and industrial equipment manufacturing and service. Combined with the Augmentir platform’s digital workflow capabilities, companies can quickly create digital work instructions to help guide workers to independently complete jobs safely and correctly, and leverage AI to direct continuous improvement efforts.

About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only AI-Powered Connected Worker platform for industrial companies. Augmentir is the first of its kind to combine enterprise augmented reality (AR) with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to intelligently close skills gaps so that frontline workers can perform their jobs with higher quality and increased productivity while driving continuous improvement across the organization. Augmentir is being used to help intelligently guide and support frontline workers in a wide range of industrial use cases – from manufacturing teams on the shop floor to service and repair teams out in the field. For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com.

New AI innovations help industrial companies in manufacturing, service, energy and construction identify and capture the largest workforce performance opportunities.

HORSHAM, PA – August 4, 2021 Augmentir, Inc., the world’s only provider of artificial intelligence-based connected worker software, today unveiled its latest product innovations that are redefining how AI is being used to improve safety, quality, and productivity in industrial frontline work. The company announced the release of several new product features which improve and expand the in-app AI insights that deliver performance optimization opportunities to any industrial company with frontline workers.

Augmentir’s AI Suite leverages anonymized data from millions of job executions to significantly improve and expand its ability to automatically deliver in-app AI insights in the areas of productivity, safety, and workforce development, increasing the benefits to Augmentir customers.

Augmentir’s latest product innovations include:

  • Enhanced Workforce Development Insights – Augmentir’s AI automatically delivers workforce development insights, providing companies with laser focus on where each individual in your workforce has room for improvement to maximize the value per dollar spent on upskilling, and understand what types of training would have the largest impact on operational improvement.
  • Improved Quantifying of Work Process Re-Capture Times  – Augmentir’s AI engine now provides a more refined True ProductivityTM stack ranking of the amount of productivity per work process that can be captured and what actions are needed to capture it.
  • New AI-derived True Benchmark™ – Using the highly granular data from work execution, Augmentir’s AI predicts ideal execution times for each work process, quantifying the productivity opportunity across all frontline work activities and helping companies better evaluate performance improvement efforts.
  • New True Proficiency™ Score – Augmentir’s AI helps to objectively baseline each of your team members for their level of proficiency at every task so organizations can optimize productivity and throughput, intelligently schedule based on proficiency and skill-levels, and personalize the level of guidance and support to meet the needs of each member of the workforce.
  • New True Engagement™ –  Augmentir’s AI predicts the engagement level of each of your team members to help identify areas where early intervention would be beneficial. Based on the platform’s AI insights, companies have the tools to increase engagement through higher levels of interactivity, modification of task assignments, additional positive reinforcement, and targeted training.

Augmentir customers like Colgate-Palmolive, Bio-Chem Fluidics, and STRONGARM are already leveraging Augmentir’s AI in conjunction with the platform’s digital workflow and remote collaboration capabilities to optimize their frontline operations and deliver significant growth and continuous improvement in the areas of manufacturing, maintenance, service, and quality. The latest updates to Augmentir’s AI suite now improve and expand those benefits.

“Augmentir has given us the power to make data-driven decisions regarding our business and operational environment,” said Bio-Chem Fluidics Operations Manager, Conor Puckett. “By looking at the insights generated from the Augmentir platform, we are able to understand and target the areas of our manufacturing environment that can drive the most gain back to the business, resulting in a 21% improvement in productivity across our manufacturing operation.”

According to Gartner, “AI will play a critical role in the long-term success of connected factory workers.” Gartner further adds, “As more information is curated and made available, algorithms must be continually trained in a Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) approach in alignment with continuous improvement initiatives.”

“Today’s connected frontline workforce is a new and valuable source of data for the enterprise. A challenge is that this data is inherently noisy, making traditional business intelligence approaches useless in surfacing the productivity and workforce development opportunities contained within,” said Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder of Augmentir. “Augmentir’s embedded AI engine automatically cleanses this data and presents a stack ranked view of your opportunities for productivity, quality, and workforce development, helping companies to remain competitive in an era of intense global competition.”

To learn more about Augmentir and how its AI-powered connected worker platform is delivering performance optimization for industrial companies, visit augmentirdev.ai.

About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only AI-Powered Connected Worker platform for industrial companies. Augmentir is the first of its kind to combine enterprise augmented reality (AR) with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to intelligently close skills gaps so that frontline workers can perform their jobs with higher quality and increased productivity while driving continuous improvement across the organization. Augmentir is being used to help intelligently guide and support frontline workers in a wide range of industrial use cases – from manufacturing teams on the shop floor to service and repair teams out in the field. For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com.