Manufacturers are constantly facing a shortage of skilled workers and this has been for years now. The average tenure of a new worker in manufacturing is very low nearly couple of years now, meaning even if a manufacturer has to attracts new talent and quickly train them, at same time expense of training them as to be low and quickly scalable
The senior and expert positions are hard to to fill are typically the biggest impact on performance. Technical positions such as controls engineers, skilled operators, technicians, and machinists, are critical to expanding operations, but what if junior positions employes are provided tools and assistance through which they can quickly operate at skills of senior positions employees.
With Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality these manufacturing pain points are seeing a disruption in how workforce is trained and assisted while at work:
Traditional and conventional methods such as training manuals, job shadowing, and evaluations and certification processes are outdated, less effective, and time consuming. These methods also don’t address the need to cater to different learning styles: visual, aural, verbal, etc. hence with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality these processes are at the brink of disruption.