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The skills gap has become a skills crisis. Augmented Reality is helping industrial organizations enable on-the-job training, capture and scale expertise, recruit younger workers, and close the skills gap.

Picavi’s Johanna Bellenberg talks about head-worn devices with the very people implementing the technology at Walmart, GE Transportation, Gensler, USPS, and FM Global.

AGCO’s Jackson, Minnesota manufacturing team has incorporated Google Glass to audit finished product before it is shipped to dealers for consumer purchase.

Microsoft HoloLens and Autodesk Fusion 360 are helping improve collaboration across the product development process, enabling engineers and designers to iterate together in real-time.

From giving customers a sensor’s vantage point to configuring cars in entirely new ways, Microsoft HoloLens is working to bring Volvo’s cutting edge car features to life in ways never before possible.

Similarly to mobile technology introductions, implementing enterprise Augmented Reality technologies must be planned. Sound Augmented Reality project planning takes into account potential benefits and risks to existing IT, human and business systems. Potential benefits of Augmented Reality are addressed in many places, including previous AREA webinars. This unique webinar will examine risk factors frequently encountered with enterprise AR deployments.

Selecting the best use cases for enterprise Augmented Reality introduction is arguably one of the most important steps that project managers will perform when exploring the technology’s potential to impact workplace performance. Finding a use case that is sufficiently narrow to be well defined while also broad enough to be applicable to multiple important business processes across an organization requires careful analysis. Use case selection should also take into account the stakeholders, their budgets, their power to influence corporate decision makers and their experience with emerging technology introduction.