Ubimax and Vuzix Expand Partnerships to Further Smart Glass Adoption

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3Q 2017 | IN-4700

July 2017 saw a number of announcements from Ubimax, a leading wearable technology solution for enterprises. The company announced its new Frontline platform that has been designed around its four core products: xPick, xMake, xInspect, and xAssist. The platform aids companies with the deployment, integration, and management of wearable technology, specifically smart glasses, such as Google’s Glass Enterprise Edition, RealWear’s HMT-1, and Microsoft’s HoloLens. July 2017 has also seen Ubimax join with Vuzix, a leading supplier of smart glasses, to bring smart glass solutions to a number of companies.

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Ubimax’s Latest Announcements

NEWS


July 2017 saw a number of announcements from Ubimax, a leading wearable technology solution for enterprises. The company announced its new Frontline platform that has been designed around its four core products: xPick, xMake, xInspect, and xAssist. The platform aids companies with the deployment, integration, and management of wearable technology, specifically smart glasses, such as Google’s Glass Enterprise Edition, RealWear’s HMT-1, and Microsoft’s HoloLens. July 2017 has also seen Ubimax join with Vuzix, a leading supplier of smart glasses, to bring smart glass solutions to a number of companies.

Examples of Companies taking Advantage of Ubimax and Vuzix

IMPACT


The partnership between Ubimax and Vuzix is designed to bring the formers smart glass solutions to the Vuzix M300 smart glass device. Some of the companies taking advantage of this partnership include:

  • John Deere – The American manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery is using Vuzix M300 smart glasses with Ubimax’s xPick solution to help reduce errors, improve picking speed, and eliminate hand-held scanners within an assembly line machinery plant in Germany. The solution allows workers to assemble mixed model tractors, which involves a large number of heavy components, without needing paper instructions or a separate scanner. The glasses provide workers with visual cues, voice controls, and a camera for scanning parts allowing them to continue working whilst accessing information or scanning a part. After two weeks of using the solution, John Deere found that the error rate associated with assembling the tractors was reduced to nearly zero and productivity was improved.
  • W&S Kunststoff-Service – The German assembly and engineering company is using Vuzix M300 smart glasses with Ubimax’s xMake and xAssist solutions to reduce errors, optimize processes, and simplify training within various different manufacturing operations. The xMake solution allows workers to complete various tasks without requiring paper instructions or PDF’s on a computer. The glasses provide workers with a step-by-step list of instructions, whilst also communicating with sensors, scales, object recognition, and more to improve quality assurance. The xAssist solution provides workers with a communications interface without needing to leave their position. The glasses allow workers to communicate with shift leaders and experts remotely concerning questions or errors, providing a real-time telepresence feature. Both solutions can be used across one device for multiple use cases, including warehousing, assembly line, and quality assurance. WS Kunststoff-Service has found that the solutions have increased performance and reduced errors.

How the Smart Glass Market is Expanding

COMMENTARY


The above case studies are just two examples of companies using smart glasses to help improve productivity. More and more companies are turning to smart glass and solution vendors to provide them with the ability to give workers access to information hands-free. Ubimax’s customer base includes companies such as Audi, DHL, Samsung SDS, Ricoh, and Vodafone, and its partner base includes Daqri, Intel, ODG, Samsung, and Zebra. A large number of smart glass market players are seeing an increase in the number of companies looking to adopt their technology and to partner with them to develop new solutions for the market.

Concrete proof of ROI has been holding back augmented reality adoption, from the initial intense excitement and hype surrounding AR now to more realistic expectations. More case studies like that of John Deer and W&S Kunststoff are beginning to fill in the holes of uncertainty that investors have, and will begin to support the strong growth forecasted for AR over the next five years.

This ever-increasing development and adoption is helping to drive the number of enterprise wearable devices being shipped across the world, with enterprise smart glass shipments expected to reach nearly 30 million in 2022, as a CAGR of over 125%. As more companies realize the benefits of using smart glasses from the likes of Vuzix and Google (who recently publicly revealed its revamped Google Glass Enterprise Edition) with solutions from companies including Ubimax and Augmate, shipments will continue to see a boost. Companies are looking to providing workers with smart glasses to allow them to see instructions and information directly in their line of sight, as well as provide them with a hands free see-what-I-see communications interface, which will help to improve productivity, reduce errors, and ultimately save money.