Automotive industry
A tier-one automotive supplier trains twice as fast
Autonomous operator training, guided in augmented reality on the real equipment.
Result: training speed doubled.
Chemicals and process industries
Your process operators and maintenance staff are leaving. Their skills stay on site, with no network to open.
Lockout, hot work permits, work preparation, workshop maintenance: your experts pass on their skills in a few minutes, on the real equipment, before they leave. Your newcomers learn them guided in augmented reality. Artificial intelligence included, everything runs offline: your process know-how stays with you.
- 100% offlineNo network to open, no outbound data flow: creating, translating and tracking work offline.
- No data held by the software publisherNothing is hosted by SHIFT89 and the software requires no online account.
- Hands-freeThe instruction is displayed on the equipment: hands stay free; voice is enough to move forward.
Your challenges
Structural departures, tasks that leave no room for error.
Structural departures
Many retirements every year, and just as many hires to get right.
Your experts are leavingCybersecurity and confidentiality
The NIS 2 directive covers the manufacture of chemicals, and your processes are your edge. A tool that requires no connection does not force you to open any data flow.
What SHIFT89 changes
The expert’s skill kept before they leave, rehearsed before intervening.
What the experienced process operator, the newcomer and the HSE manager experience.
100% offline
No connection, whether to create or to learn: no network to open for the workshop, no online account, nothing held by the software publisher.
Learn moreHands-free
Gloves, safety glasses, protective clothing: the instruction is displayed on the equipment, not on a tablet to handle.
Learn moreA few minutes
Your expert records the lockout or the operating procedure while doing it, before they leave: one minute per instruction.
Learn moreVerified learning
A quiz checks that the procedure is understood; you know who has learnt what, and where people get stuck.
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Use cases
Prepare, lock out, maintain.
Workshop, laboratory, packaging, training room, mock-up: the places to start.
Lockout and lockout removal
Each step in the right place, in the right order, before intervening.
Take the challenge (2 min)Hot work permits
Preparing hot work: the measures set out in the hot work permit shown beforehand and checked with a quiz.
Workshop maintenance
Pumps, valves, dismantled components: your mechanics’ skills passed on in the workshop, on the real equipment.
Work preparation
The operating procedure rehearsed before entering the unit, on a mock-up or training equipment.
Packaging and laboratories
Packaging lines, laboratories: production tasks learnt at the workstation, in each person’s language.
Newcomers and contractors
The site’s instructions shown before the intervention, in each person’s language, without tying up a mentor for each new arrival.
The difference
What phones, tablets and online platforms impose on a process site.
Every tool has its strengths. Here is what these approaches impose by nature, and what we do differently.
- Other approachesFilming an operating procedure with a phone means one hand fewer to carry it out.Then a shoot, editing, and a file to keep under control.With SHIFT89The expert passes on the task while doing it, hands-free.One minute per instruction; nothing leaves the site.
- Other approachesA tablet to touch with gloves on means an interrupted task.You take your gloves off, or you do without.With SHIFT89The instruction is displayed on the equipment.To move forward, no touchscreen to handle.
- Other approachesAn online platform keeps your operating procedures on its servers.By nature: a connection, an account, data held by the software publisher.With SHIFT89Your operating procedures stay at your site.No network to open, no online account, nothing held by us.
What we equip
Your risks, your vocabulary.
The tutorial shows the task; your operating procedures, your permits and your hazard study remain the reference.
- Lockout and lockout removal
- Isolate, lock off, verify, in the right order: each step shown in the right place.
- Hot work permits
- Prevention measures reviewed before hot work, checked with a quiz.
- Heavy process plant operator
- The experienced operator’s skills passed on before they leave, on the installation or on a mock-up.
- Process industry technician
- The newcomer becomes more autonomous, without tying up the expert for every new arrival.
- Confined spaces
- Prepare the intervention before going in, not inside: the instructions reviewed on the training equipment.
- CLP labelling and CMR substances
- Pictograms and precautions shown at the workstation, checked with a quiz.
- Seveso upper tier, lower tier
- Each use is assessed case by case, with your HSE department, in the light of your hazard study.
- ATEX
- Explosive atmospheres require a case-by-case study; we start outside the areas concerned.
Our hardware advice
The right hardware for your workshop, not the latest fashion.
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.
The operating range
Workshops, laboratories, packaging, training rooms and mock-ups are the natural settings. Explosive atmospheres and Seveso sites require a case-by-case study: we tell you what is possible beforehand, not afterwards.
With your protective equipment
Safety glasses, gloves, chemical protective clothing: we check with you, workstation by workstation, that the device can be worn with your protective equipment.
Your budget
Just the hardware you need for your workstations and teams: 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
What our deployments have measured.
Figures measured during our deployments, a method validated by 5 industrial PhD theses and evaluated against Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides in a study published at IEEE ISMAR 2022.
- 1 minTo create an instructionBy the expert, on the real equipment, with no writing or editing (measured in our deployments)
- × 2Train twice as fast, autonomouslyMeasured in our deployments, at a tier-one automotive supplier
- ÷ 5Trainers and mentors tied up5 times fewer, measured in our deployments
Industrial research
A boiler manufacturing plant: the method evaluated against Guides
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.
They trust us
- A tier-one automotive supplier
- A food industry manufacturer
- A manufacturer of measuring instruments
- A manufacturer of industrial components
For confidentiality, we only name a customer with their written consent.
Funding and procurement
Simple purchasing.
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.
Licences on quotation
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.
One day to get started
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
Your questions.
Can the glasses be used in our units?
Not everywhere. Explosive atmospheres and Seveso sites require a case-by-case study, with your HSE department. Workshops, laboratories, packaging, training rooms and mock-ups are the first settings.
Do we need to open access to our industrial network?
No. No connection is required, whether to create, to learn or to track learners. The artificial intelligence also runs on your computer.
Our experts are leaving soon and have no time. How long does it take?
One minute per instruction, a few minutes for a tutorial, on the real equipment, while doing the task. No writing, no filming, no mandatory editing, no contractor.
Does the tutorial replace our written procedures?
No. Your operating procedures and your permits remain the reference. The tutorial complements them: it shows the task on the equipment, where action is needed, and can be updated in a few minutes whenever something changes.
It also makes training far more engaging and effective, particularly for younger generations. And it enables independent training, where there is no safety risk for learners.
Finally, it becomes your training standard: all learners are trained the same way, and this standard improves continuously, incorporating the best of your past, present and future trainers.
HoloLens 2 is no longer manufactured, and its security updates continue until December 2027 for connected devices. What happens to the investment?
At SHIFT89, we support HoloLens 2 until at least the end of 2030, so you can use your investment for longer. #AugmentedTraining needs no connection to work: your HoloLens 2 headsets can therefore be disconnected from Wi-Fi, for maximum security.
Your content does not depend on one device: several augmented-reality glasses and headsets are compatible. We advise you, completely independently, on the one that suits your working conditions and your budget.
All content created with #AugmentedTraining on HoloLens 2 can be reused, without being redone, on the new glasses and headsets we support.
See also
- Industry: overview
- Mechanical engineering, machining and metalworking
- Food industry
- Automotive
- Aerospace
- Rail
- Naval
- Energy and nuclear
- Healthcare and pharmaceuticals
- Luxury and fine crafts
- Electronics
- Plastics and composites
- Water and environment
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- Your security teams’ questions
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