Augmentir Continues Strong Growth as Leading Mid-Market Companies Adopt its AI-based Remote Assist Solution

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.

Augmentir Announces New Product Features to Extend Leadership Position in AI-based Performance Optimization for Frontline Work

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.

Augmentir Unveils Global Scalability Enhancements, Empowering its Large Enterprise Customers to Accelerate Digital Transformation Efforts

World’s only AI-based connected worker platform adds localization, enterprise connectors, and SSO to support the needs of Fortune 1000 customers in CPG, automotive, life sciences, industrial equipment, paper & packaging, energy, and food & beverage

HORSHAM, PA – March 16, 2021 – Augmentir, Inc., the only provider of artificial intelligence-based connected worker software, today announced new features and updates to its market-leading connected worker platform to meet the needs of its expanding global customer base. The additional product features include localization support, enterprise connectors, single sign-on support, and multi-region scalability and redundancy. These enhancements will provide increased flexibility, security, and ease of use to help industrial companies digitize their operations on a global scale.

“Augmentir has been helping industrial companies of all sizes digitize their frontline workforce and deliver improved safety, quality, and productivity in today’s new normal,” stated Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder of Augmentir. “Over the past several months we’ve worked closely with our enterprise customers to add several exciting features to our already easy-to-use platform. The new features we announced today will help these companies continue to expand their digital transformation efforts on a global scale.”

Today’s announcement includes:

  • Localization support for globally distributed worker teams, enabling companies to provide digital guidance and remote support in multiple languages for teams located across the globe.
  • Expanded library of Enterprise Connectors, which allow companies to fully integrate Augmentir into popular business applications. This release adds connectors for SAP, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics, making it easy to integrate digital workflows and share data.
  • Enterprise security and Single Sign-On (SSO), enabling large enterprises to reduce security risks and streamline user experiences while delivering seamless access from anywhere.
  • Multi-Region Scalability and Redundancy, which increases Augmentir’s already marketing leading availability, providing business continuity and global availability for enterprises that operate across multiple global regions.

According to LNS Research:

“Industrial organizations clearly recognize the potential business value to be gained from Industrial Transformation (IX) investments aimed at digitally connecting the industrial frontline workforce. Work on the plant floor to field service is being revolutionized once again with deeper connectivity between the workforce and overall industrial operations. Connected Frontline Workforce technologies enable greater integration between people and systems across operations, extending capabilities to wherever work is performed.”

Augmentir’s AI-powered connected worker platform is being used to digitize operations across a range of industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, and automotive manufacturing, as well as utilities, oil and gas, mining, and industrial equipment manufacturing and service. The platform provides digital workflow and remote collaboration tools to help industrial companies intelligently guide and remotely support their frontline teams with a solution that is fully supported on mobile devices or AR-enabled smart glasses. In addition, the platform delivers AI-based organization-wide insights and recommendations that focus on continually improving the quality and productivity of frontline workers.

To learn more about the Augmentir connected worker platform, visit www.augmentir.com.

 

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.

Augmentir Welcomes Pete Stamatis as Vice President of Sales, Accelerating Its Growth and Expansion Plans

Leading provider of AI-Powered Connected Worker Software welcomes industry veteran with more than 20 years of global sales and business development experience

HORSHAM, PA – JANUARY 29, 2020 – Augmentir, Inc., a leading provider of connected worker software for industrial companies, today announced that Pete Stamatis has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. Pete will assume responsibility for all aspects of Augmentir’s revenue expansion including sales team leadership, new channel development, and customer success.

Stamatis brings over 20 years of global sales and business development experience to Augmentir, with the majority of that experience leading enterprise SaaS sales teams. Before joining Augmentir, Stamatis was the Director of Sales at Thermo Fisher Scientific for the Unity Lab Services Division leading their sales team across North America. Prior to Thermo Fisher Scientific, Stamatis lead teams at Health and Safety Institute and Verisk 3E selling SaaS-based Environmental Health and Safety Platforms as well as Learning Management System Platforms. His experience spans selling into a wide range of industries and delivering exceptional customer experiences while driving growth.

“We are excited to welcome Pete to the Augmentir team,” stated Russ Fadel, Co-Founder and CEO of Augmentir. “Pete brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to our executive leadership team, and his efforts will be critical to achieving our global growth plans.”

“The Augmentir team has a rich history and strong reputation in bringing innovative software to the industrial sector,” stated Stamatis. “With a growing momentum in the connected worker space, there is a tremendous opportunity for Augmentir to continue to address some of the most critical issues that the manufacturing industry is facing today.   Augmentir’ AI-first approach offers unique solutions to closing the rapidly expanding skills gap, and the loss of tribal knowledge due to the aging workforce.  I’m excited to join the team and help extend Augmentir’s position as a market leader.”

The addition of Stamatis comes at a time where Augmentir has seen rapidly expanding demand and new customer growth.  Augmentir’s AI-powered connected worker platform is being used by companies of all sizes in manufacturing, production, energy, and service to help frontline workers perform their jobs with higher quality and increased productivity while closing the skills gap, seamlessly capturing tribal knowledge, and seizing opportunities that drive continuous improvement. The platform provides software that helps guide frontline workers with augmented, step-by-step-instructions, assists workers with live remove expert collaboration, and utilizes its AI engine to deliver organization-wide insights and recommendations that focus on improving the quality and productivity of frontline workers.

 

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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 help frontline workers 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.

E&S Grounding Solutions Selects Augmentir to Further Innovate its Best-in-Class Electrical Grounding Services with the Latest in Connected Worker Technology

Leading electrical service provider uses Augmentir’s AI-powered connected worker platform to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of its on-site grounding engineering services.

HORSHAM, PA – October 19, 2021 – Augmentir, Inc., the world’s only provider of artificial intelligence-based connected worker software, today announced that E&S Grounding Solutions (“E&S”) has selected Augmentir to further connect, digitize, and modernize its highly specialized electrical services.

With nearly 20 years of dedicated grounding installations across the USA and international sites, plus numerous electrical engineering books published, E&S Grounding Solutions specializes in providing best-in-class electrical grounding services and live online training on an international scale. The company offers innovative grounding solutions — a critical safety feature for all electrical installations, including industrial, utility, and generating plant applications.

By utilizing leading industry computer modeling software, E&S provides highly sophisticated grounding design solutions that reduce costs and provide timely accurate solutions for its clients. The solutions are engineered from detailed soil resistivity test data, analysis, and computer modeling, delivering critical safety features for the industrial and utility sectors. Now, with Augmentir, E&S is further digitizing and optimizing its processes and procedures for a range of services that the company offers, including:

  • Onsite Engineering Services – Augmentir’s connected worker and digital workflow tools improve the accuracy and quality of physical site evaluations and soil resistivity testing, allowing field technicians to connect and coordinate with various instrumentation they bring along to the site. Augmentir’s tools improve the field technicians’ accuracy with automated field data collection and decision support.
  • Remote Expert Assistance Services – Augmentir augmented reality-based remote collaboration solution allows E&S Grounding Solutions to remotely assist its clients’ maintenance teams or external contractors while onsite.

“We were seeking a solution that would help us connect, digitize, and modernize our onsite engineering services and assistance we provide to our clients,” stated Joe Plourde, COO at E&S Grounding Solutions. “Augmentir with its innovative connected worker technology allows us to improve the accuracy and guidance we are providing to our field technicians.  Furthermore, Augmentir’s AR-based Remote Assist tool allows us to quickly and easily collaborate with customers and provide expert guidance in real-time.”

“We are thrilled to be selected by E&S Grounding Solutions as a core technology for their engineering and remote assistance services,” stated Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder at Augmentir. “Our partnership with E&S highlights the broad applicability of our AI-based performance support solution across a range of industrial applications, allowing companies like E&S to deliver exactly the right information at the right moment to help their workers do their jobs to the highest possible level.”

 

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About E&S Grounding Solutions

E&S Grounding Solutions, Inc., (E&S) is a leading global provider of electrical grounding & earthing engineering services, to include design, site testing and auditing, lightning risk assessments, and advanced diagnostics and analysis. E&S also provides both virtual and onsite Training Services, covering a broad range of related topics including international standards. E&S enables its Clients to realize state-of-the-art grounding designs that are high performing yet exceptionally cost effective. The E&S Mission is to ENGINEER, EDUCATE and EMPOWER the world’s leading electrical technology professionals and companies to become safer, more successful, and more profitable, every single day. Learn more at esgrounding.com.

 

About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only provider of AI-based connected worker software. Augmentir’s software is a suite of AI-powered connected worker tools that helps industrial companies optimize the safety, quality, and productivity of today’s rapidly changing industrial frontline workforce. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage 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 performance support, training, and workforce development. For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com.

Augmentir Raises $7.5M in Oversubscribed Series A to Advance AI-based Performance Support for the Industrial Workforce

The company will use funds to expand its leadership position in AI-based performance optimization and workforce development for the industrial frontline workforce.

HORSHAM, PA – November 10, 2021 – Augmentir, Inc., the world’s only artificial intelligence-based connected worker software provider, today announced that it has secured $7.5 million in Series A financing. This new funding will enable Augmentir to grow its team and to expand its leadership position in delivering performance support for industrial frontline workers. The Series A was led by Gardner Lewis Asset Management along with other key investors Lerer Hippeau, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and HOLT Ventures.

The funding comes as today’s 350 million strong industrial frontline workforce face readiness challenges magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses face a growing skilled labor shortage, retention, and worker engagement challenges, all while lacking the appropriate digital tools and data to effectively train and continually support their workers.

“The workforce crisis in manufacturing, and across the entire industrial sector, is at an all-time high,” said Russ Fadel, Co-founder and CEO of Augmentir. “Companies like Colgate-Palmolive, BioChem Fluidics, and Hunter Industries are responding to these challenges by investing in Augmentir’s data driven, AI-based platform to transform how they train and support their frontline teams. This funding will enable us to expand our global footprint and deliver our innovative, AI-first approach to a broader set of industrial companies.”

Augmentir’s suite of AI-powered connected worker tools helps industrial companies understand their diverse workforce at an individual level, enabling them to reduce the effort it takes to onboard, guide, and support their workforce.

“Although the industrial workforce is clearly becoming more dynamic, its well-known skills gap remains, making it difficult for companies to meet their operational goals. Augmentir’s unique, AI-based solution for understanding the workforce at an individual level enables companies to move from a “one size fits all” approach to onboarding, guidance, and support, to one that is more personalized. This transforms these processes, which results in lower costs to hire, train, and support workers, all while delivering superior operational performance,” stated Whit Gardner, CEO of Gardner Lewis Asset Management. “In addition, we have confidence in the leadership team at Augmentir, having successfully invested with them in other market leading software products created by ThingWorx (acquired by PTC) and Lighthammer (acquired by SAP).”

Since its product launch in July 2019, Augmentir has experienced many successes in the form of industry recognition and new client adoption, including:

This latest round of funding will allow Augmentir to further expand its global reach in the industrial sector, including manufacturing, construction, utilities, oil and gas, mining, and field service industries, and continue to provide solutions that will shape the future of the industrial workforce.

 

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About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only provider of AI-based connected worker software. Augmentir’s software is a suite of AI-powered connected worker tools that helps industrial companies optimize the safety, quality, and productivity of today’s rapidly changing industrial frontline workforce. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage 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 performance support, training, and workforce development. For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com.

STRONGARM Expands Use of Augmentir to Improve Manufacturing Quality

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STRONGARM chose the Augmentir platform because of its ability to help them modernize their manufacturing environment and improve quality and efficiency

August 11, 2020

STRONGARM is a small to mid-sized company that designs and manufactures ergonomic and environmentally protected workstations for companies in a wide range of market segments, including life sciences, food and beverage, oil and gas, healthcare, and general manufacturing.

The company initially deployed Augmentir’s software platform 12 months ago, with a focus on improving quality assurance (QA) processes. STRONGARM had previously relied on paper-based work instructions and QA checklists, but as growth and shipments picked up, this method became unwieldy and the company selected Augmentir’s software platform to help digitize its operational workflows and improve quality.

“What we really liked about Augmentir was that they are a modern, SaaS-based company that really fit within our IT needs and helped us meet our quality and continuous improvement objectives. With Augmentir, we found a simple and easy-to-implement solution that allowed us to get going in less than an hour, and the results have been fantastic.”

Steve Thorne, President and CEO of STRONGARM

STRONGARM chose the Augmentir platform because of its ability to help them modernize their manufacturing environment and improve quality and efficiency. The company was able to quickly evaluate the Augmentir software platform, prove out key use cases, and fully implement the platform within days – all without significant IT involvement.

STRONGARM’s initial focus with the Augmentir platform was on the assembly and final quality control processes for the company’s most complex workstation and industrial display unit. Augmentir’s rapid authoring environment allowed STRONGARM to quickly migrate their existing paper-based instructions to digital, augmented instructions that incorporated rich media, checklists, verifications, and several other features that were central to their assembly and QC processes.

Using Augmentir has allowed STRONGARM to not only digitize their operation, but also realize significant improvements in quality and performance. With Augmentir, STRONGARM has been able to:

  • Completely digitize their Quality Assurance (QA) processes
  • Reduce QA time per system by 50% – from 30 minutes down to 15 minutes
  • 20% reduction in average build time in their most complex workstations
  • Improve and standardize on required QA and audit activities

According to Steve Thorne, General Manager at STRONGARM, “Augmentir’s AI-based ‘True Opportunity™’ system enables us to gain insight into how our technicians are performing, and autonomously identifies our largest capturable opportunities across our entire operation.”

“Because the process was so easy, our technicians were able to quickly incorporate Augmentir into their daily operations, and the results were immediate – technician productivity improved, and inspection times went down. Furthermore, when one of our senior and most experienced technicians retired recently, we were able to onboard a new technician and trust Augmentir’s AI engine to guide him during the learning curve to get product out the door at 100% quality so that we didn’t miss shipments. Once Augmentir’s AI engine determined that the worker had become proficient, it recommended that the instructions should be adjusted to enable him to complete the job faster while still meeting quality and safety goals. This has resulted in a 20% reduction in average build time in our most complex workstations.” Thorne added that based on the initial successes, STRONGARM plans to expand its use of Augmentir into the manufacturing operations of their ruggedized workstations used in the oil and gas industry.

“Based on the success of Augmentir for our QA processes, we have expanded the system into other areas of our manufacturing operation, including complex assembly, shipment staging, and preventive maintenance,” added Thorne. “Augmentir’s AI engine automatically helps identify the biggest areas of quality improvement – this is helping support our organization wide continuous improvement and quality initiatives”

From day one, Augmentir has been focused on providing affordable and easy-to-use solutions that create sustainable value for small, medium, and large sized businesses. The platform provides a suite of AI-powered 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.

 

Bio-Chem Fluidics Deploys Augmentir’s AI-Powered Augmented Worker Platform to Drive Continuous Improvement across its Manufacturing Operations

Leading manufacturer of high performance pump and valve solutions improves frontline worker performance across its manufacturing operation and reduces training time by over 80% with Augmentir’s software platform

HORSHAM, PA – SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 – Augmentir, Inc., a leading provider of augmented worker software for industrial companies, today announced that Bio-Chem Fluidics, a manufacturer of high performance pumps and valves for clinical diagnostics and analytical chemistry applications, has deployed Augmentir across its operation, resulting in improved manufacturing processes and productivity. Today’s announcement comes on the heels of the launch of Bio-Chem Foresight, intelligent pumps and valves that utilize the Company’s new Foresight Predictive Technology, further demonstrating Bio-Chem’s commitment to innovation.

Founded in 1983, Bio-Chem Fluidics designs and manufactures high-performance pump and valve solutions for leading instrumentation OEMs in the global Clinical Diagnostics, Analytical Chemistry, Water Quality and Medical Device markets.  Bio-Chem’s staying power is the result of the Company’s enduring mission to passionately provide high technology solutions in the Life Science Instrumentation marketplace to improve quality of life for everybody, every day. With its newly announced deployment of Augmentir’s software platform, Bio-Chem has reaffirmed its commitment to innovation and continuous improvement in its manufacturing processes and product quality.

Augmentir’s Augmented Operations™ platform enabled Bio-Chem Fluidics to:

  • Move from Paper-based to interactive augmented instructions for assembly and QA procedures
  • Collect and provide insights on the granular assembly data required for their Lean Manufacturing initiatives and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements
  • Drive quality improvements through validation of critical assembly steps
  • Provide built-in “training” for less experienced assemblers and temps
  • Reduce training time by over 80% (from three months down to two weeks)

“Augmentir has given us the power to make data driven decisions regarding our operational environment,” stated Conor Puckett, Continuous Improvement Engineer at Bio-Chem Fluidics.  “By looking at the insights generated from the Augmentir platform, we are able to identify problems in our historical procedures that have been hidden until now, and we have identified a handful of potential continuous improvement projects from just the first few months of clean data.”

Linsey Holden-Downes, Vice President of Operations at Bio-Chem, added, “Augmentir has made our complex procedures very repeatable for operators of all skill levels. As a result, our training time for new operators has been reduced by over 80%. The flexibility and ease-of-use of the Augmentir platform have made it painless to implement across our company. Employees at Bio-Chem have really engaged with the Augmentir platform as there is a strong value proposition for all levels of the organization.”

“We are excited to partner with a forward-thinking company like Bio-Chem.  Their organizational commitment to continuous improvement made our AI-based Augmented Operations platform a perfect fit for their goals,” stated Russ Fadel, CEO of Augmentir.  “Augmentir goes beyond traditional electronic work instructions by combining high granularity data collection with automatic Artificial Intelligence insights and recommendations to help focus organizations on their largest True Opportunities™ across productivity, quality, and training.  We look forward to continuing this journey with Bio-Chem in the future.” The Augmentir Augmented Operations Platform includes complete functionality that makes it easy for industrial companies to improve their operations across a range of manufacturing and service use cases. The Platform provides software that helps guide frontline workers with augmented, step-by-step-instructions, assist workers with live remove expert collaboration, and utilizes its AI engine to deliver organization-wide insights and recommendations that focus on improving the quality and productivity of frontline workers.

 

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About Augmentir

Augmentir is a leading provider of augmented worker software for industrial companies. Its flagship offering, the Augmented Operations™ platform, is the first of its kind to combine enterprise augmented reality (AR) with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to empower frontline workers, helping workers perform their jobs with higher quality and increased productivity while driving continuous improvement across the organization.  For more information, please visit www.augmentir.com.

About Bio-Chem Fluidics

Bio-Chem designs and manufactures high performance pump and valve solutions for leading instrumentation OEMs in the global Clinical Diagnostics, Analytical Chemistry, Water Quality and Medical Device markets. Bio-Chem Fluidics’ dedicated commercial teams work closely with OEMs to solve fluid control issues with renowned engineering prowess and industry leading fluidic components Bio-Chem Fluidics, headquartered in New Jersey, is a subsidiary of Halma plc, and a part of the Halma Medical and Environmental Sector. For more information, please visit www.biochemfluidics.com.