Aerospace
Production or Part-145 maintenance: your know-how never leaves the site, with no connection and no data held by the software publisher. Your experts pass on their skills in a few minutes; your new technicians and fitter-assemblers learn them hands-free, in augmented reality, on the part, the sub-assembly or the aircraft.
Your challenges
Order books full for years: the industry has to train fast, without compromising on safety.
Recruitment is increasing: every newcomer has to become autonomous quickly, on demanding tasks.
Training a lot of people, fastFitter-assemblers, welders, boilermakers and sheet-metal workers: trades where recruiting is difficult.
In many of the industry’s SMEs, the owners are approaching retirement. With them, know-how can leave too.
Your experts are leavingPart-145 requires competence in human factors1; the UK authority’s CAP 716 guidance details its twelve pitfalls, the “Dirty Dozen”2.
A swarf chip, a screw or a forgotten tool becomes a foreign object. Every item set down in the area is one more risk.
Part of the industry’s activity is defence-related: restricted-access areas, protection of scientific and technical know-how. A cloud complicates everything there.
What SHIFT89 changes
Authoring, AI and tracking without any connection: your know-how stays in your workshop or hangar, nothing held by the software publisher, nothing in the cloud. An asset for your restricted-access areas.
Learn moreThe device is worn, never set down: the instruction is displayed on the part, both hands stay on the tool, and no tablet is left lying around in the area.
Learn moreYour experts pass on their skills in a few minutes, on the real part: one minute per instruction, with no writing and no contractor.
Learn moreIn the PC application, a quiz checks what has been learnt and you track who has been trained on which task, and where people get stuck.
Learn moreUse cases
Your new fitter-assemblers follow the procedure of your best experts, in augmented reality, on the real part, at their own pace.
Before a rare task, the technician reviews the expert’s procedure on the equipment; the task card and the maintenance manual remain the reference.
The critical points of a special process shown identically to every operator. The tutorial trains; it does not qualify.
From one shift to the next, the procedure remains available: the next shift finds it on the equipment, just as the expert showed it.
No tablet set down in the area: the device is worn, and is inventoried like your tooling.
The knack of an expert who is retiring, passed on in a few minutes on the equipment, for those who stay.
A fair comparison
They are excellent tools. Next to an aircraft or a sub-assembly, however, they impose a few constraints, by their very nature.
What we equip
The tutorial supports the task: it replaces neither the task card, nor the maintenance manual, nor human factors training, nor the Part-66 licence.
Our hardware advice
As former industry professionals, we advise you as we would have advised ourselves: the device suited to your workshop, your protective equipment and your budget. Only solutions proven in real conditions.
A device that is worn, never set down, and inventoried like your tooling.
The use of a device with cameras is a matter for your security officer. Everything runs offline: approval is easier to obtain, and we help you prepare it.
Your content does not depend on one device: several glasses and headsets are compatible, and we recommend hardware that will be supported over the long term.
Just the hardware needed: neither the latest fad nor a cheaper but unreliable solution.
Turnkey: we configure each device and fit it with the necessary accessories, so that it works in your environment and with your constraints. What we prepare
Works on: Microsoft HoloLens 2, Arvicom CART-S, Samsung Galaxy XR, VITURE Luma Ultra XR, XREAL Aura and VIVE Eagle, and soon Arvicom CART-3D. Your content does not depend on a device.
Measured results
Figures measured during our deployments. Our method has been evaluated against Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides, in a study published at IEEE ISMAR 2022.
Industrial research
Our method stems from work carried out with Institut Mines-Télécom in a boiler manufacturing plant. It was compared with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides.
Result: a study published at IEEE ISMAR 2022, the leading international conference on augmented reality.
Deployment
In our deployments, one day of training is enough: trainers create their first tutorial that same afternoon, then work on their own from the next day.
Result: 8 trainers operational at D+1.
Funding and procurement
An off-the-shelf solution, on quotation. It is up to the buyer to qualify their purchase, according to the rules that apply to them.
One licence per device, glasses or headset, with volume discounts, and one licence for the PC application. Your choice: annual licences, multi-year licences or licences for the lifetime of the hardware. A quotation based on your project.
Your existing headsets remain in use, including after Dynamics 365 Guides.
After GuidesA one-hour scoping session by video call, one day on site with up to 8 of your experts, then standard project management. Additional support days when your project requires them.
Frequently asked questions
No. The task card and the maintenance manual remain the reference. The tutorial shows, on the equipment, the task they describe.
No. It is support for the task, on the real equipment. It complements your human factors training; it does not replace it.
The device is worn, never set down, and is inventoried like your tooling. That is precisely what it avoids: a tablet set down in the area.
The use of a device with cameras there is a matter for your security officer. Everything runs offline, with no data held by the software publisher, and under a non-disclosure agreement we provide the technical documentation needed for that decision.
Your content does not depend on one device: it also works on other compatible glasses and headsets. HoloLens 2 security updates continue until December 2027 for connected devices, we support it until at least the end of 2030, and we advise you completely independently.
Yes: one minute per instruction, a few minutes for a tutorial, on the equipment, while doing the task. No writing, no filming, no mandatory editing.
A 30-minute to 2-hour demo, on one of your pieces of equipment.
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