Food industry
Format changeover, cleaning, adjustment: your best line operator passes on their skill in a few minutes, at the machine. Seasonal workers, temporary staff and newcomers follow it in augmented reality, in their own language, with no phone or tablet in the production area. No cloud, no account, no network: your recipes and settings stay at your site.
Your challenges
The food industry hires a lot, and often for a single season. At every peak, everything starts again.
Among food industry workers, a large share of recruitment is seasonal: onboarding starts again at every peak.
High staff turnoverSkilled food industry workers are hard to recruit, and maintenance technicians even more so.
A significant share of machine-related accidents happen during maintenance, cleaning and adjustment.
The BRCGS Food Safety standard requires control of portable items, phones and tablets, in open production areas1. Some sites ban them.
Your recipes, settings and processes are what set you apart: they have no business being on a software publisher’s servers.
Secrets to protectYour best line operator cannot keep up the pace and train every newcomer at the same time.
What SHIFT89 changes
No cloud, no account, no network to open: your recipes, settings and processes never leave the plant.
Learn moreThe instruction is displayed where action is needed and voice is enough to move forward: hands stay on the machine. No shared screen to touch, no phone in the production area.
Learn moreYour expert passes on the task during their format changeover or cleaning: one minute per instruction, with no writing or editing.
Learn moreIn the PC application, each instruction is translated and read aloud in the language of the seasonal or temporary worker, by an AI that runs at your site.
Learn moreUse cases
Your best line operator’s setting, available at every changeover and for every shift, even at night, even for someone who rarely does it.
Dismantling, cleaning, reassembly: the moves of your most rigorous team, shown on the equipment, in the right order.
Before an adjustment, cleaning or maintenance: making the machine safe in the right order, before touching it.
Take the challenge (2 min)Routine maintenance tasks entrusted to line operators, shown on the machine by your maintenance technicians, to be reviewed before a rare intervention.
The key points of your HACCP plan shown where they matter, and a quiz to check they are understood.
Every newcomer is guided step by step on the real line, in their own language, without tying up a mentor for each new arrival.
A fair comparison
They are excellent tools. On a food production line, however, they impose a few constraints, by their very nature.
What we equip
The tutorial fits into your practices: it shows the task at the machine; it replaces neither your HACCP plan nor your reference procedures.
Our hardware advice
As former industry professionals, we advise you as we would have advised ourselves: the device suited to your line, your hygiene rules and your budget. Only solutions proven in real conditions.
A dedicated device, provided by the site, that never leaves the plant: it fits into your portable items rules and your glass and brittle plastics register. Your quality department decides; we help it prepare its decision.
Ambient-temperature lines are the ideal setting. Cold and explosive atmospheres require a case-by-case study: we tell you beforehand, not afterwards.
The device has to be wearable with your clothing and protective equipment, on your line, not just in a demo room.
The right number of devices for your lines and teams, without oversizing: margins are tight, we know.
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.
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.
For confidentiality, we only name a customer with their written consent.
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.
A 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
Nothing. Everything runs offline, on your devices and workstations: SHIFT89 hosts none of your data, and the software requires no online account.
The device is dedicated, provided by the site and never leaves the plant: it fits into your portable items rules and your glass and brittle plastics register. The decision lies with your quality department; we help it prepare.
Ambient-temperature lines are the ideal setting. Cold and explosive atmospheres require a case-by-case study: before any project, we tell you what is possible at your workstations.
Tutorials remain from one season to the next. Each instruction is translated and read aloud in each person’s language, by an AI that runs on your computer, offline.
They have nothing to write: one minute per instruction, a few minutes for a tutorial, during the format changeover or cleaning. No writing, no filming, no mandatory editing.
No. Your HACCP plan and your procedures remain the reference. The tutorial shows the task at the machine, where it is done.
A 30-minute to 2-hour demo, on one of your lines.
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