Dr. Brian Laughlin is a Technical Fellow/ IT Architect, CAS/GS&S, serving as the Co-lead of the Enterprise Point of Use (PoU) Core Team, for Mobile, Wearables and Internet of Things.
Brian is currently focused on the area of Wearable computing, Advanced Visualization, and strategic development and implementation of mobile technologies, both across Boeing, and with our customers and suppliers around the globe.
A 28yr veteran in Aerospace, he draws from a diverse background: Sheet metal/Composites Mechanic, Process Engineering Analyst, Lean Coach, Teacher and Mentor, etc. He holds a Masters in Experimental and a Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology.
Also a prolific inventor, Brian has 47 Disclosures and patents and received many awards: 1 Tech Rep, 2 Special, 4 Meritorious and an Ed Wells Initiative, for a body of work that has saved Billions and created RevGen opportunities for Boeing and the Aerospace market, world-wide.
Before implementing an enterprise wearable technology strategy, it's important to brainstorm the plan's overall goals and roadmap potential capabilities first, according to Brian Laughlin, technical fellow, strategic technical planning and IT architecture at Boeing, and Bradd Busick, CIO at MacDonald-Miller. Laughlin and Busick spoke with SearchCIO at the recent Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit in Boston, where they discussed best practices to get started with utilizing wearable tech in the enterprise. In this video, they offer pointers on how to identify problems that wearable tech deployment could solve and explain why a pilot project is often the best way to start implementing enterprise wearable technology.
There's a lot to love about gaining computing power while retaining human workers. And plenty of use cases proving that you shouldn't wait to make your own machine merger.
In this joint presentation, Brian Laughlin and Paul Davies of Boeing take the audience through the multiple ways in which Boeing has been applying Augmented Reality – a term the company coined in the late 80s – to manufacturing. The effects of using AR at Boeing have included reductions in assembly time, errors and training requirements, increase in workers’ capacity to recall work instructions, and the transfer of knowledge from an aging workforce to a newer one—things get built faster with higher quality because AR is the fastest mode of instruction. Given challenges like industry regulations, content and ergonomics, Boeing is employing AR on various devices depending on the use case. HoloLens, for one, is great for design review as well as for training. Brian and Paul also used their time on stage to demo several HoloLens applications, where 3D content, 2D text and audio combine to train and assist workers.
