Valiant TMS Merged Reality Concept
XR User Story
TheoremXR and Microsoft HoloLens 2
Savings at a Glance
Let's begin by talking about the Valiant TMS Merged Reality Concept
Suresh: "I have a teenage son at home who is really into virtual reality and video games and one day it struck me that his experience growing up must be so different from mine when I was his age.
I assembled a team to begin studying virtual technologies and how we can apply them to our process of designing and integrating industrial automation solutions. We knew we were on the brink of a major shift in how the industrial sector uses technology as we were already seeing it infiltrate this space in small ways.
While my team dove into their research, I briefed our senior management team and received overwhelming support to continue down this path. Their forward-thinking attitude was centered on our ability as a company to serve our customers and align with their aspirations and vision of the factories of the future. As a trusted automation partner, our customers expect us to be leaders in this area."
"After comprehensive research, we selected Microsoft HoloLens as our hardware platform, and TheoremXR as our software solution because of how well it worked with our existing 3D CAD data and aligned with our ideas and concepts.
Today, we have made significant progress. Many of our teams have adopted this technology and use it every day – they rely on it to perform at a higher level.
What started as an idea and concept within our North American operation is now being used by our teams globally; growth and adoption is still accelerating as more people are exposed to the benefits it brings. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a factor in increasing the rate of adoption because people need new ways to collaborate due to travel restrictions and health and safety concerns – the fact is that people still need to work in a team environment, they just need to do it from home instead of the office or plant."
One path is through the visualisation and utilisation of our 3D CAD content to create holographic models that can be used and manipulated in space and in the real world through head gear or other forms of visualisation hardware. The other path, was the utilisation of information transfer, allowing individuals to quickly acquire knowledge based on directions provided through the visualization hardware. This is most often seen in instructional applications and many of the companies that we researched approached it from that direction.
Our focus is on design, build and integration of automation equipment and specialized manufacturing technologies. We wanted to empower the people on our manufacturing team with effective tools that would allow them to engage with the CAD design data as they assemble the actual equipment with the ability to validate that it’s been done right."
Return on Investment
What about ROI in terms of cost/time savings that can be expected by implementing some of your use cases?
Suresh: "We have several cases where traditionally it may have taken days to carry out a task, required travel time and related expenses and may have delayed our project timing. After adopting HoloLens with TheoremXR and applying them to our process we’ve been able to do many of these tasks in a matter of hours, without having to travel. It’s much more efficient.
We have described several specific use cases to show some of the ways we have used the technology and realized benefits."
Learn how XR is at the forefront of CAD data visualization
TheoremXR exists to solve the problem of the cognitive gap. The cognitive gap is the relationship between the form in which information is presented, and the context in which it is applied. Advanced visualization, which places information in context with the environment to which it refers, is the solution.
