Duracell Joins Augmentir’s Customer Advisory Board

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Duracell, the world’s #1 consumer battery manufacturer, is now part of Augmentir’s Customer Advisory Board, joining Colgate-Palmolive, Sargento, Graphic Packaging, and Hunter Industries.

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When it comes to high-performance batteries, there’s one brand that everyone knows and loves – Duracell.

We are excited to announce that the world’s #1 consumer battery manufacturer is now part of Augmentir’s Customer Advisory Board. Duracell’s collaboration and expertise are a major leap forward in our mission to transform industrial work and empower frontline workers worldwide with AI-driven connected worker solutions.

augmentir welcomes duracell to customer advisory board

Duracell’s commitment to innovation and excellence aligns perfectly with our vision of leveraging connected worker and AI technology to augment and transform the industrial workforce. With Duracell on board, we are set to supercharge our innovation and advance our impact on the connected worker market and manufacturing arena.

Our Customer Advisory Board was announced last September and consists of leading manufacturers from a wide range of industries who understand the importance of today’s unique industrial workforce challenges. Duracell joins other leading manufacturers including:

  • Colgate-Palmolive
  • Graphic Packaging International, LLC
  • Hitachi Energy
  • Hunter Industries
  • Sargento

This powerhouse lineup underscores our commitment to addressing the evolving needs of the industrial workforce. With Duracell and our other board members actively helping guide and shape the development of our AI-powered connected worker platform, we’re making sure it meets the industry’s needs head-on.

Collaborating for AI-Driven Connected Worker Innovation

Our AI-driven connected worker platform stands out by providing frontline workers with unparalleled personalized, real-time assistance and insights – enhancing productivity, skills management, workforce development, and operational efficiency. Unlike other platforms, ours was purpose-built to leverage advanced AI to continuously learn and adapt to each worker’s unique needs, offering tailored support and proactive guidance.

Recently, we were named the market-leading solution in the connected frontline workforce application space by LNS Research, highlighting us as the industry’s Most Complete Product. Augmentir was also named 2023’s “Connected Worker Company of the Year” by Frost & Sullivan, as well as named a “Cool Vendor” for Manufacturing Operations by Gartner.

“We are honored to welcome Duracell to our Customer Advisory Board,” said Russ Fadel, CEO of Augmentir. “Their expertise and forward-thinking approach will provide invaluable insights, helping us to continue delivering cutting-edge solutions that drive operational efficiency and workforce productivity.”

Duracell’s participation on the board involves sharing industry best practices gained from their extensive experience in manufacturing and supply chain management. They will provide critical feedback on new features and enhancements, ensuring that our AI-powered platform meets the practical needs of the industrial workforce. Additionally, Duracell will collaborate with us and other board members to develop innovative strategies to address common challenges in the industrial sector, such as improving safety, increasing productivity, and reducing downtime.

This partnership underscores our shared dedication to empowering the workforce of the future by harnessing the power of advanced technologies. With the input of our customer advisory board, we aim to create more intuitive, effective, and user-friendly solutions that help companies optimize their operations and support frontline workers to achieve next-level performance. Together, we are confident that we can drive meaningful change and set new standards for excellence in the industrial world.

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If you’d like to learn more about how Augmentir and our AI-powered connected worker solution is transforming industrial frontline work, schedule a demo with one of our product experts.

 

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Colgate-Palmolive Selects Augmentir to Accelerate Digitization in Manufacturing Operations

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In support of their global digital transformation efforts, Colgate-Palmolive’s Global Supply Chain group had been exploring tools to digitize equipment changeover and maintenance operations and have selected Augmentir’s Connected Worker Platform.

In support of their global digital transformation efforts, Colgate-Palmolive’s Global Supply Chain group had been exploring tools to digitize equipment changeover and maintenance operations plus integrate into Colgate’s SAP ERP and MES Wonderware Systems and have selected Augmentir’s Connected Worker Platform.

Augmentir’s “AI-based” Connected Worker Platform offers connected worker technology with augmented work instructions. Equipped with digital devices that could include tablets, mobile phones, or even AR-enabled industrial smart glasses, frontline workers are able to receive fully augmented, guided instructions on any device to improve productivity, quality and allow workers to perform their jobs more independently. These help guide workers with visual aids, AR/MR experiences, and contextual information.

Significant Results in 6 Short Months

Since the selection of Augmentir in November 2020, Colgate has already seen tremendous progress towards its goals, and deployment has helped enable people at each of our global plants to build, maintain, and share their own localized content, plus boost adoption and productivity.

According to Colgate-Palmolive: “Augmentir platform’s ease of use and broad applicability to different scenarios helped to enable people at each of our global plants to build, maintain, and share their own localized content, and has boosted adoption”. Their results include:

  • 1060+ Digital WorkFlows created across 10 Plants (maintenance procedure, workflow, changeover, shift change
  • More than 16,500 Workflow executions and 500+ Procedures optimized
  • 10-30 minutes saved per shift
  • As much as 120 minutes reduced between Maintenance Notification and Maintenance Order Closure (Maintenance Execution Time)
  • Advanced statistics available for integration with other CP datasets for future integrations and improvements
  • Actual Maintenance Work Order times automatically captured and recorded in SAP PM, increasing the accuracy of maintenance planning and scheduling for sites utilizing SAP integration

Read the full article below.

 

Colgate-Palmolive Accelerates Digitization in Manufacturing Operations

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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.