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August 13, 2024 – Augmentir, the provider of an innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based connected worker solution, today announced a collaboration with Zebra Technologies, joining the Zebra PartnerConnect program with an integrated workforce productivity software solution that is compatible with Zebra enterprise and touch mobile computers.

Operations leaders in the manufacturing, warehouse, transportation and logistics industries worldwide continue to grapple with fostering resilient supply chains amid heightened demands for speed and accuracy, ongoing skilled labor shortages, and economic uncertainty. By combining Augmentir’s AI-driven connected worker technology with Zebra’s innovative mobile computing and data capture solutions, businesses can now harness unprecedented levels of safety, efficiency, productivity, and operational excellence.

Augmentir’s industry-leading connected worker platform enables digital collaboration, skills management, and work execution across the manufacturing value chain. The platform runs natively on Zebra devices running the Android operating system, and harnesses the power of AI to digitize and optimize frontline work across a range of use cases, including autonomous and preventive maintenance, quality, safety, and operations. Momentum is building across the manufacturing industry, with more than 80% of manufacturing transformation leaders deploying a wide range of emerging technologies to connect and improve frontline operations. This paves the way for a new digital landscape enabling frontline workers in new and innovative ways.

“We are excited to announce our collaboration with Zebra to deliver a transformational AI-powered frontline workforce productivity solution. As a Zebra PartnerConnect member, we are working with Zebra to add end-to-end value to our industrial customers,” said Russ Fadel, CEO and co-founder of Augmentir. “This collaboration brings innovative AI-based technology to the industrial frontlines, extending Zebra’s solutions with AI-powered connected worker technology that empowers frontline workers to perform at their best, shaping the future of industrial work.”

The Zebra PartnerConnect program is designed to evolve the best of Zebra’s inclusive channel ecosystem, addressing the needs of distributors, resellers, solution partners, independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators (SIs), and technology alliance partners, providing opportunities for growth and meeting customer and market demands.

Augmentir was recently named the market-leading solution in the connected frontline workforce application space by LNS Research, which highlighted Augmentir as the industry’s Most Complete Product. Learn more about Augmentir and the company’s innovative approach to the future of industrial work at augmentir.ai.

About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s only AI-Powered Connected Worker solution. Augmentir’s software includes a complete suite of connected worker capabilities, connectors to business systems, and broad extensibility that enable manufacturers to digitize their frontline operations, reduce onboarding time, and increase workforce productivity. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage Augmentir’s suite of tools to deliver effective skills management, training, digital workflow, and collaboration for today’s more dynamic industrial workforce. For more information, please visit augmentir.ai.

October 24, 2024 – Augmentir, the provider of the world’s leading connected worker solution, announced today that it was selected by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller (UTM) to digitally transform their production facilities.

Augmentir’s industry-leading connected worker platform enables digital collaboration and execution across the manufacturing value chain. The platform is used to digitize and optimize frontline work across a range of use cases, including autonomous and preventive maintenance, quality, safety, and operations. Momentum is building across the manufacturing industry, with more than 80% of today’s manufacturing leaders deploying CFW solutions. This paves the way for a new digital landscape enabling frontline workers in new and innovative ways.

“Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller is excited to accelerate our digital transformation journey with Augmentir, helping us realize a fully digitized frontline operations,” stated Dominik Caliebe, Digital Transformation Manager from UTM. “After an evaluation of connected worker vendors, we selected Augmentir due to its advanced features, breadth of platform capabilities, and ease of use for our frontline workers. In our biggest site in Leppersdorf, we have over 1,000 paper forms that we use every day that we are rapidly converting into Augmentir Smart Forms to simplify analytics and auditability, and we are expanding across the Group to support several use cases in operations, maintenance, quality, and safety.”

With several international production sites, UTM uses Augmentir to fully connect and digitally transform shop floor activities across its global locations. Augmentir serves as a unified mobile interface for the Group, enabling operators and frontline staff to learn how to operate equipment, troubleshoot issues, execute standard work, and track plant maintenance activities. This includes digitizing and optimizing SOPs, step-by-step guides, shift handovers, quality data collection, checklists, capture analytics on production activities, as well as digital skills management – including delivering training programs, competence acquisition, and execution follow-up.

“We are proud to be part of this transformation at Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, and are honored to be selected as the company’s global connected worker solution,” said Russ Fadel, CEO of Augmentir. “As the future of industrial work is being reshaped by technological advances, we are excited to work with innovative companies like UTM who use Augmentir to facilitate their workers’ access to critical information they need daily to keep production lines performing at the highest levels of quality and throughput.”

To learn more about Augmentir, visit augmentir.ai.

About Augmentir

Augmentir™ is the world’s leading Connected Worker solution. Augmentir’s software includes a complete suite of connected worker capabilities, connectors to business systems, and broad extensibility that enable manufacturers to digitize their frontline operations, reduce onboarding time, and increase workforce productivity. Companies in manufacturing, service, energy, and construction leverage Augmentir’s suite of tools to deliver effective skills management, training, digital workflow, and collaboration for today’s more dynamic industrial workforce. For more information, please visit augmentir.ai.

About Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller

In the dairy segment, Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller manages the business of subsidiaries in continental Europe and Great Britain with strong, independent brands: Müller, Landliebe, Weihenstephan, Sachsenmilch and Käserei Loose.

Private labels and basic dairy products such as butter, UHT milk, lactose powder and whey protein complete the portfolio. In addition to the milk processing subsidiaries, the packaging company Optipack and Müller Naturfarm, one of the largest fruit processing companies in Germany, are also part of the Group.

Activities in the field of convenience food also come under the umbrella of the Group. The product range thus also includes well-known brands in the fish & deli, sauces and dressings segment.

CULINA Group is the market leader in chilled and ambient logistics services for the British food and beverage industry. In Germany, CULINA Deutschland and EMHAGE complement the logistics portfolio. www.muellergroup.com

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 Productivity^TM 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 augmentir.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 augmentir.ai.

HORSHAM, PA – August 26, 2020 – Augmentir, Inc., a leading provider of artificial intelligence-based connected worker software for industrial companies, today announced the immediate availability of a comprehensive subscription offering that combines the RealWear HMT-1® wearable Android tablet with Augmentir’s AI-Powered Connected Worker platform. The low-cost subscription bundle gives enterprise companies the technology and tools they need to help increase safety, quality, and productivity for frontline workers performing industrial jobs in manufacturing and service.

The subscription bundle, which includes hardware, software and support, is being being offered through a partnership with Q-mation, a leading industrial hardware and software reseller. The offering helps to reduce CAPEX costs for enterprise companies throughout the entire connected worker journey including evaluation, piloting, rollout and maintenance of the solution.

“We have seen tremendous demand for hands-free solutions based on Augmentir’s Connected Worker platform,” said Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder of Augmentir. “Our partnerships with RealWear and Q-mation bundle the right technologies into a subscription model that makes it easy for our customers to get started and scale this throughout their enterprise, allowing them to capture the safety, quality, and productivity benefits more quickly.”

“Augmentir and Q-mation, both important RealWear partners, have produced a subscription offering that helps companies avoid large CAPEX purchases, simplifying the adoption of cutting edge, productivity improving Connected Worker solutions,” said Sanjay Jhawar, President and Co-Founder of RealWear. “This will further accelerate the digital transformation of the industrial frontline workforce.”

The RealWear HMT-1® is a ruggedized head-mounted, wearable, Android-class tablet computer that frees a worker’s hands to help people improve safety and increase productivity at work. When combined with Augmentir’s AI-based Connected Worker platform, frontline workers can be intelligently guided through complex manufacturing, inspection and service procedures. Augmentir’s platform, which is optimized for a hands-free RealWear experience with voice, delivers on-the-job training and instant support from remote experts, allowing frontline workers to perform their jobs with higher quality and safety, and increased productivity.

“Q-mation has reoriented its 20+ year business to help transform the frontline workforce through a combination of Augmentir’s AI-based platform and RealWear’s market leading HMT-1 family of industrial wearables,“ added Bob D’Agostino, President of Q-mation. “With this cost effective total subscription offering we are helping companies future accelerate their deployment of valuable Connected Worker solutions such as Remote Assist and Intelligent Workforce Guidance.”

Available immediately, the subscription is priced at $140 USD/user/month for a 36-month subscription. The subscription also includes $50 of essential RealWear HMT-1 accessories, phone and email support,  software updates and device configuration.

To learn more, visit the Augmentir website at www.augmentir.ai/solutions/realwear.

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 augmentir.ai.

About Q-mation

Q-mation is a large hardware and software reseller, support and service provider focused on helping manufacturing companies adopt and deploy productivity increasing solutions quickly.  The company’s Connected Worker group has partnered with Augmentir and RealWear to accelerate the availability of their technologies to the industrial marketplace. Connect with Q-mation by visiting www.qmation.com.