Augmentir Welcomes Mike Carroll to Board of Advisors

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Augmentir welcomes Mike Carroll to our Board of Advisors! Mike is widely recognized as an industry trailblazer and visionary, with a proven track record of driving innovation, industrial transformation, and AI strategy.

We’re excited to welcome Mike Carroll to Augmentir’s Board of Advisors!

A recognized leader in industrial operations, digital innovation, and workforce strategy, Mike brings decades of experience driving transformation across manufacturing and industrial enterprises.

augmentir welcomes mike carroll to board of advisors

Widely regarded as an industry visionary, Mike most recently served as Vice President of Innovation at Georgia-Pacific, where he led transformative initiatives across the company and its parent, Koch Industries. His leadership in AI strategy, operational excellence, and workforce enablement makes him a powerful addition to Augmentir as we continue to grow our AI-powered connected worker platform — helping manufacturers tackle their most critical workforce challenges.

A Career at the Intersection of Manufacturing, Innovation, and Industrial Transformation

Mike’s career spans key leadership roles where he has helped organizations modernize operations by aligning people, process, and technology. At Georgia-Pacific, he led enterprise-wide efforts in operations, engineering, and manufacturing excellence, creating more adaptive, future-ready workforces.

His expertise extends beyond technology adoption — encompassing workplace modernization and the human side of digital transformation. These experiences make him a valuable voice in the evolving conversation about the future of work.

Why This Matters Now

Manufacturing is undergoing a seismic shift. With aging workforces, widening skills gaps, labor shortages, and increasing production complexity, manufacturers are being forced to rethink how they engage, support, and train their frontline teams.

At the same time, emerging technologies like AI, connected worker platforms, and intelligent automation are opening new opportunities — but only when implemented with real-world operational understanding.

That’s where Mike’s experience is invaluable. Having led transformation initiatives from within the industry, he brings both a strategic lens and practical wisdom to ensure that workforce transformation remains central to industrial innovation.

Mike has a unique ability to connect operational goals with frontline execution. His strategic vision and practical insight will be a tremendous asset as we continue helping manufacturers digitize their frontline operations and unlock workforce potential through AI.

We see the future of industrial work now being realized by emerging AI approaches, utilizing generative AI knowledge management, and AI factory agents collaborating alongside humans on the shop floor. Augmentir’s focus on delivering an intelligent frontline operations platform goes beyond visualizing data to actually driving action. It digitally connects people, processes, and systems, enabling proactive management through intelligent workflows, digital task management, and continuous improvement tools. With Augmentir, data isn’t just displayed—it’s used to empower smarter, faster, and more effective operations.

“Augmentir isn’t just another layer of dashboards, it’s goal is to be a unified ‘single pane of glass’ that closes the loop between training and work execution, empowering frontline teams with AI-driven insights and augmented guidance to drive continuous improvement in safety, quality, and productivity. I’m excited to join a company that doesn’t merely digitize processes but learns from every action on the shop floor and delivers in-line support, whether through generative AI assistants or remote expert collaboration, so manufacturers can onboard workers faster, optimize skills, and unlock their full potential.”

– Mike Carroll

Driving the Future of Connected Work

At Augmentir, we’re committed to helping manufacturers digitize and optimize their frontline operations with AI-powered tools for skills management, digital workflows, industrial collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Welcoming Mike Carroll to our Board of Advisors is another step forward in that journey — strengthening our ability to serve manufacturers with both cutting-edge technology and real-world operational insight.

Please join us in welcoming Mike to the team!

 

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Augmentir Named a Leader and Top Innovator in Frost & Sullivan Augmented Connected Worker Radar Report

Frost & Sullivan recognizes Augmentir’s AI-powered platform as a top innovator for its use of AI agents and applied AI to help manufacturers address skilled labor shortages, accelerate workforce upskilling, and improve operational performance.

January 8, 2026 – Augmentir, the world’s only Agentic AI platform for connected work, has been recognized for the second year in a row by Frost & Sullivan as a leader and #1 in innovation in its Frost Radar™: Augmented Connected Worker, End-to-End Platforms, 2025 report.

The Frost Radar™ evaluates vendors across two core dimensions—Innovation and Growth—to identify companies best positioned to drive future market transformation. Augmentir achieved the top innovation ranking for its AI-native approach to connected worker solutions, delivering advanced capabilities across digital work instructions, skills management, real-time guidance, collaboration, and continuous improvement within a single, unified platform.

Why Augmentir is Positioned as a Market Leader

Frost & Sullivan highlights the growing importance of augmented connected worker platforms as manufacturers address skilled labor shortages, accelerate workforce upskilling, and improve operational performance.

Augmentir’s use of AI agents and applied AI to personalize work execution, predict skills gaps, and continuously optimize frontline operations was a key factor in its #1 innovation rating. Frost & Sullivan also identified several differentiators that set Augmentir apart from other ACW providers:

  • Augmentir is an AI-native platform, with intelligence embedded across all capabilities to drive operational performance, workforce effectiveness, and continuous improvement—not added as a layer, but core to how the platform delivers value.
  • Agent Studio and workforce intelligence leverage AI agents to automate data collection, analyze operations, and track true productivity, performance, and engagement to focus continuous improvement and workforce investments.
  • Augie Industrial GenAI serves as a secure work and content assistant—supporting troubleshooting, recommending training, personalizing digital work instructions, and converting manuals, videos, and images into digital workflows.
  • Broad use-case coverage across operations, safety, quality, workforce management, and maintenance, with MES, LMS, and ERP integrations delivering a single pane of glass for frontline execution.
  • In-workflow workforce development provides personalized guidance, training, and assessment during task execution, while maintaining a real-time skills inventory for capacity planning and shift optimization.
  • AR-enabled work guidance maps the shop floor with spatially anchored instructions to reduce training time, accelerate maintenance, and improve quality and compliance.
  • Industrial collaboration tools enable remote expert support via live video to speed troubleshooting and reduce downtime.
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Pushing the Boundaries of What AI Can Deliver for Frontline Workers

Augmentir addresses a multitude of use cases in its portfolio and has embraced AI as the groundwork upon which its platform is built.

Augmentir’s platform addresses a multitude of use cases that manufacturers require to enhance and expand their operations, with remarkable highlights and leaps in innovation with its AI capabilities, the inclusion of AR technology that is rare among vendors in this analysis, and a comprehensive workforce development approach. This, combined with a focus on practical metrics that have a real impact on operations and the development of a single pane of glass for workers to interact with their daily work make the company a leader on the Frost Radar™ Innovation index.

“This recognition reflects our commitment to pushing the boundaries of what AI can deliver for frontline workers,” said Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder at Augmentir. “Being rated #1 for innovation by Frost & Sullivan validates our mission to transform how industrial work is executed and continuously improved.”

According to Frost & Sullivan:

“Augmentir stands out for its AI-native approach to the augmented connected worker market. Its ability to apply AI across work execution, skills development, collaboration, and continuous improvement, as well as its use of AI agents to optimize frontline operations, positions the platform at the forefront of innovation in this rapidly evolving space.”

 

The 2025 Frost Radar™: Augmented Connected Worker (End-to-End Platforms) report benchmarks providers on innovation, scalability, customer alignment, R&D effectiveness, and growth execution, spotlighting companies shaping the future of connected frontline work.

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Interested in learning more?

If you’d like to learn more about Augmentir and see how our AI-powered connected worker platform enables Augmented Connected Worker initiatives to improve safety, quality, and productivity across your workforce, schedule a demo with one of our product experts.

 

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Frost & Sullivan Names Augmentir the Leader on the Frost Radar™: Augmented Connected Worker Platforms, 2024

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The latest Frost & Sullivan Radar report recognizes Augmentir as the Leading Augmented Connected Worker Platform.

Augmented Connected Worker (ACW) solutions revolutionize manufacturing and industrial operations and Augmentir is leading the way!

The recent Frost & Sullivan Radar report recognized Augmentir as the Leading ACW Solution with our AI-powered connected worker platform. AWC is a concept that combines the methodologies behind connected worker and augmented worker initiatives to provide a clearer, more accurate picture of what the future of manufacturing work looks like.

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Read below to learn more about Augmentir in the Frost Radar report and how ACW technologies benefit both manufacturers and their workers alike.

The Frost & Sullivan Augmented Connected Worker Radar Report 2024

The Frost & Sullivan Radar Report, or Frost Radar™, is an analytical tool that benchmarks the future growth of leading organizations across multiple industries. Through careful selection and research across criteria that encompasses 2 major indices and 10 evaluation criteria, analysts select organizations that will be able to successfully support users into the future.

This edition of the Frost Radar, ranked Augmentir #1 out of all the ACW vendors. Augmentir empowers organizations to embrace Augmented Connected Worker initiatives through a comprehensive platform that combines connected worker and AI technologies to connect and support frontline workers like never before.

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As manufacturing workers become more interconnected, they can use AI tools in conjunction with smart connected worker solutions to gain insights that pinpoint areas with significant potential for improvement, this allows them to truly augment their workforces equipping them with the knowledge and abilities to complete their work safely and competently.

For more information on the Frost Radar, and the evaluation methodology used by Frost & Sullivan, click here.

Augmentir Ranked #1 Connected Worker Platform, Most Complete Solution on the Market

Frost & Sullivan has identified nine functionalities that are essential for a complete ACW solution.

  1. Knowledge and data management. The solution serves as a repository of knowledge.
  2. Work assistance and productivity. It provides digital tools to enhance frontline workers’ tasks, such as digital work instructions, digital Kanban boards, and navigation guidance.
  3. Seamless experience. The solution must be easily accessible from available devices (phones, tablets, wearables) to integrate seamlessly into everyday operations.
  4. Skills management. This serves as an extension for learning management systems (LMS) and provides supervisors and plant managers the necessary tools to upskill the workforce.
  5. Channel for communication. The solution offers native features to enable collaboration across operations, such as remote assistance, multi-site or multi-team workflows, and news feeds.
  6. Reporting and analytics. This refers to pre-built dashboards with workforce and task execution data. The ACW platform can also provide tools for configuring custom dashboards and integrating data from other systems.
  7. Integrations. The solution comes with a variety of pre-built connectors and tools to easily build new integrations to common systems.
  8. Platform capabilities. NC and LC development environments allow the building of digital procedures, workflows, training programs, and dashboards. Standard templates are available to accelerate time to value and the default deployment option is cloud-based.
  9. Integrated AI. The solution leverages AI in one or more ways. AI-enabled features include predictive maintenance, automatic creation of workflows/digital work instructions/troubleshooting procedures based on video or worker input, automatic analysis and optimization recommendations for processes, AI-powered search engines, copilots, live translations, and more.

Frost & Sullivan ranked Augmentir as a Leader in both innovation and growth within the ACW solution landscape.

According to Frost & Sullivan:

Augmentir offers one of the most comprehensive ACW solutions in the market. Its new AI copilot sets it apart from most other products in the market by covering a variety of use cases. The company’s plans to leverage engagement data from the workforce is a unique initiative in the current market. All these factors contribute to making Augmentir the leader in the Frost Radar Innovation Index.

Augmenting Frontline Workers with an AI Platform for Connected Work

Manufacturing is uniquely situated as an industry to benefit from Augmented Connected Worker solutions leveraging AI-powered connected worker technology for process improvements, quality, management, enhanced training, and more. ACW initiatives facilitate faster onboarding, increased workforce flexibility, and the retention of essential knowledge.

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AI – including generative AI tools, software, and assistants – plays a crucial role in ACW initiatives, addressing overarching trends like skills variability and the loss of tribal knowledge within the workforce. It serves as the cornerstone for implementing data-driven improvements in operational performance and continuous enhancement.

At Augmentir, we believe that a connected worker platform’s purpose goes beyond just delivering instructions and remote support; it should continually optimize the entire connected worker ecosystem and augment the capabilities of frontline workers. With this in mind, we introduced Augie™ – our generative AI assistant for industrial work, in early 2023.

With Augie, manufacturers can unlock previously untapped potential in their frontline personnel and operations. Our recent expansion and enhancements now offer the first-ever suite of dedicated GenAI assistants for manufacturing enterprises covering anything from Troubleshooting, Operations, and Data Insights, to Content Creation and even GenAI-as-a-Service.

Interested in learning more?

If you’d like to learn more about Augmentir and see how our AI-powered connected worker platform enables Augmented Connected Worker initiatives to improve safety, quality, and productivity across your workforce, schedule a demo with one of our product experts.

 

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Augmentir Named to the 2022 CB Insights’ Advanced Manufacturing 50 List

Augmentir recognized by CB Insights for achievements in AI-based connected worker technology.

Horsham, PA July 27, 2022 – Augmentir, the provider of the world’s only smart connected worker solution, today announced it has been named in CB Insights first-annual Advanced Manufacturing 50 ranking, which showcases the 50 most promising private advanced manufacturing companies in the world. Augmentir was highlighted in the factory analytics and AI category.

“This initial cohort of the AM 50 includes a wide range of companies at different stages of maturity, product development, and funding. Collectively, they are working on everything from factory analytics and artificial intelligence to industrial internet of things cybersecurity,” said Brian Lee, SVP of CB Insights’ Intelligence Unit. “We’re excited to watch the companies on this year’s list continue to grow and further create operational efficiencies that will have meaningful impact across industries.”

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Utilizing the CB Insights platform, the research team picked 50 private market vendors from a pool of over 6,000 companies, including applicants and nominees. They were chosen based on factors including R&D activity, proprietary Mosaic scores, market potential, business relationships, investor profile, news sentiment analysis, competitive landscape, team strength, and tech novelty. The research team also reviewed hundreds of Analyst Briefings submitted by applicants.

Augmentir’s suite of AI-powered connected worker tools helps industrial companies to deliver effective skills management, training, collaboration, and point-of-work support for today’s more dynamic industrial workforce. Augmentir’s software platform is already being used worldwide by leading industrial companies and organizations, including Colgate-Palmolive, Cisco, Baker Hughes, the U.S. Air Force, and Hunter Industries to digitize and optimize frontline work and deliver significant growth and continuous improvement in the areas of manufacturing, maintenance, service, and quality.

Quick facts on the 2022 AM 50: 

  • Equity funding and deals: Since 2017, the 2022 AM 50 cohort has raised $6.9B+ from 369 investors, across 177 equity deals. In 2021 alone, companies in this cohort raised over $3.7B across 46 deals.
  • Unicorns: There are 12 companies with $1B+ valuations on the list.
  • Global Reach: Twenty-seven of the selected companies are headquartered in the US. Germany and Canada tied for second, with four winners each. Other countries home to at least one winner on this year’s list include India, China, France, South Korea, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

 

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About CB Insights

CB Insights builds software that enables the world’s best companies to discover, understand, and make technology decisions with confidence. By marrying data, expert insights, and work management tools, clients manage their end-to-end technology decision-making process on CB Insights. To learn more, please visit www.cbinsights.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 deliver effective skills management, training, collaboration, and on the job support for today’s more dynamic, more flexible industrial 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 augmentir.ai.

Augmentir Triples Company Revenue and Expands Next Generation Connected Worker Offering Globally

Augmentir achieved 350% revenue growth in 2021 and is accelerating global expansion by appointing a leader in the DACH region.

Horsham, PA March 22, 2022 – Augmentir, the world’s only provider of artificial intelligence-based connected worker software, celebrated a stellar year of product and business momentum during 2021 and projects further acceleration in 2022.

The global disruptions of the past two years have elevated the urgency to address the top challenges faced by the industrial frontline workforce. Rapidly declining tenure rates and increased worker churn have made the lengthy onboarding processes untenable for industrial organizations. The resultant skilled worker shortages have served as a catalyst for work process digitization. The $7.5M in Series A financing raised by Augmentir in the latter part of 2021 positioned the company to expand the breadth of its product and organization to meet the growing needs of the industry.

“We are excited to accelerate our global expansion by appointing a leader in the DACH region to meet our growing prospect and client demand across Europe,” said Carsten Hunfeld, newly appointed Head of Operations in the DACH Region of Augmentir. “Augmentir is committed to equipping our customers with tools that will help them boost worker proficiency and performance. We expect to make a lasting impact on the way workforce management is done.”

Augmentir’s suite of AI-powered connected worker tools helps industrial companies to deliver effective skills management, training, collaboration, and point of work support for today’s more dynamic industrial workforce. Augmentir’s software platform is already being used worldwide by leading industrial companies and organizations, including Colgate-Palmolive, Cisco, Baker Hughes, the U.S. Air Force, and Hunter Industries to digitize and optimize frontline work and deliver significant growth and continuous improvement in the areas of manufacturing, maintenance, service, and quality.

“2021 was a transformative year for Augmentir, during which we achieved 350% revenue growth, increased our customer base by 230%, increased the functional breadth of our platform, and expanded our team internationally,” said Russ Fadel, CEO of Augmentir. “2022 is off to a great start and we are getting significant uptake from clients seeking to use our platform to help get new frontline workers onboarded and productive in 80% less time than traditional approaches. Our patented AI-based Workforce Intelligence capability helps deliver standardized work in an era of highly variable workforces.”

 

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 deliver effective skills management, training, collaboration, and on the job support for today’s more dynamic, more flexible industrial 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 augmentir.ai.

U.S. Air Force Awards Augmentir with Phase II SBIR Contract to Improve Asset Maintenance and Operations using Connected Worker Technology

U.S. Air Force to use AI and augmented reality based connected worker technology from Augmentir to improve the productivity and efficiency of their maintenance workforce

HORSHAM, PA – December 1, 2021 – Augmentir, Inc., the world’s only provider of artificial intelligence-based connected worker software, announced today that it has been awarded an AFWERX Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AFWERX’s mission is to solve problems and enhance the effectiveness of the Air Force by enabling thoughtful, deliberate, ground-up innovation across the Air Force.

“We are honored that our AI-based connected worker technology has now entered the US Armed Forces,” said Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder of Augmentir. “We look forward to delivering an innovative solution that will help improve the operational readiness of the Air Force.”

As part of the Phase II effort, Augmentir’s software platform will be utilized to drive innovation and readiness within the USAF’s maintenance organization. Augmentir’s software will utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) to enable Air Force maintainers to inspect, troubleshoot, and repair more efficiently. The solution will deliver improvements across several areas:

  • Productivity and quality – Augmentir’s AR-based digital work instructions increase the accuracy and consistency of routine maintenance and inspection procedures
  • Knowledge sharing – Augmentir’s technology help to centralize mindshare and build a knowledge base for training and organizational improvement
  • QA and compliance – Digital QA sign offs, data capture, and automatically generated audit trail documentation ensure compliance
  • Training and workforce development – In-line and “moment of need” training fills knowledge gaps to result in better skills retention, and Al-based recommendations suggest both individual and organization-wide actions to improve overall maintenance effectiveness

Augmentir’s suite of AI-powered connected worker tools is helping companies in a range of industries understand their diverse workforce at an individual level, enabling them to reduce the effort it takes to onboard, guide, and support their workforce. Augmentir’s solution has been successfully deployed across industries such as manufacturing, construction, utilities, oil and gas, mining, and field service.

 

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About SBIR

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research process in an attempt to speed up the experience, broaden the pool of potential applicants and decrease bureaucratic overhead. Beginning in SBIR 18.2, and now with topic AF211-DCSO1, the Air Force has begun offering ‘Special’ SBIR topics that are faster, leaner and open to a broader range of solutions. For more information on SBIR, visit https://www.sbir.gov.

 

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 augmentir.ai.

 

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 augmentir.ai.

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 augmentir.ai.