RealWear, Inc., the global leader of enterprise head-mounted wearables, announced today that French car manufacturer Groupe PSA has successfully rolled out RealWear’s flagship HMT-1 head-mounted enterprise wearables for its factory technicians to improve productivity and quality during the vehicle assembly process.
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Factory employees at Groupe PSA wear RealWear’s assisted reality headsets (HMT-1s) to improve factory uptime and empower and connect workers with other experts. Headsets are versatile and serve multiple use cases to maintain quality and safety in assembly of automobiles. The auto conglomerate has already logged thousands of hours using RealWear’s voice-controlled, hands-free Android system. (Photo: Business Wire)
Groupe PSA, which owns car brands Peugeot, Citroën, DS Automobiles, OPEL, and Vauxhall initiated its “Glasses Assist” project with RealWear in March 2018. Since that time, Groupe PSA workers have logged more than 10,000 hours on RealWear’s HMT-1 wearable computers. The 45 voice-controlled, fully hands-free headsets are now in frequent use in factories in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Slovakia, Russia, Morocco, India, Argentina and Brazil.
“Our fleet of HMTs was seamlessly integrated within our existing processes and passed all safety compliant requirements without question. We will continue to expand our HMT-empowered team with big plans ahead,” said Guillaume Calfati, who is in charge of new digital experiences and creative excellence at Groupe PSA.
Groupe PSA said it chose to standardize on RealWear due to its ruggedized construction and factory-friendly form factor. The company said the device is extremely comfortable and convenient, clipping easily onto a hard hat or bump cap, and the voice command interface is so intuitive that it can be learned in a few seconds without instructions.
The solution, which was deployed in 80% of the company’s factories to date with plans to expand, now runs HPE Visual Remote Guidance (VRG), a secure, enterprise-ready collaboration software application. The application runs atop RealWear’s purpose-built Android enterprise platform, allowing for a visually guided two-way interactive communications session via 3/4G or Wi-Fi.
The assembly of cars is the last step in the manufacturing process. During this stage, Groupe PSA must bring together thousands of parts and suppliers and run quality control checks at every step to identify and resolve defects. The Groupe PSA project allows remote experts in other facilities hundreds of miles away to troubleshoot defaults in real-time during the manufacturing process and resolve them within minutes.
“We are thrilled to partner with Groupe PSA and HPE on another global deployment of our systems,” said Andy Lowery, RealWear’s CEO. “Groupe PSA has demonstrated successful long-term deployment of RealWear’s HMT knowledge transfer platform. This experience with HMT-1 is a success as the company will use this tool as a standard.”
About RealWear
RealWear® is a knowledge transfer platform company providing in-situ information and in-the-field training with software and hardware to help people improve safety and increase productivity at work. The company’s flagship product, the HMT-1®, is the best ruggedized head-mounted, wearable, Android-class tablet computer that frees a worker’s hands for dangerous jobs. With an ever-growing number of hands-free software solutions, enterprise customers gain instant knowledge with remote mentor, document navigation, industrial IoT visualization and digital workflow solutions. Global leaders in energy, manufacturing and automotive industries trust the HMT-1 and HMT-1Z1® to empower and connect their global workforce.
RealWear will be hosting live demonstrations of its award-winning hands-free head-mounted system at CES (#CES2020) in the Las Vegas Convention Center January 7-9, South Hall 2, Meeting Room 25578. To schedule a demo, visit this page.
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