Rail industry
Inspections, overhauls, mid-life operations: your experts pass on their skills in a few minutes, on the rolling stock; your new maintenance technicians follow them in augmented reality, hands-free, in the pit as on the bogie. No network to open in the workshop: your know-how never leaves the site.
Your challenges
General and mechanical maintenance workers are hard to recruit, across all sectors.
In heavy maintenance, the vehicle is withdrawn from service: every hesitation over a task is paid for in availability.
Overhaul, life extension, modernisation: heavy maintenance comes round at long intervals. Between two occasions, the procedure is forgotten.
Work under electrical authorisation, lockout: the right procedure, in the right order.
Errors and safetyNew rolling stock, new technologies, new workshops: so many teams to train, often far from their experts.
The know-how of your most experienced technicians is your advantage: it has no business being on a software publisher’s servers.
Secrets to protectWhat SHIFT89 changes
At the maintenance depot as in the component workshop: no network to open, no data held by the software publisher. Your site’s know-how never leaves it.
Learn moreIn the pit, on the bogie, on board the train: the instruction is displayed on the rolling stock, both hands stay free for the tool.
Learn moreYour experts pass on their skills during the inspection: one minute per instruction, with no writing or editing.
Learn moreIn the PC application, each instruction is translated and read aloud in the technician’s language, by an AI that runs at your site; a quiz checks what has been learnt.
Learn moreUse cases
Day-to-day routine maintenance: every technician follows the inspection on the rolling stock, at the workshop’s pace.
The expert’s rare procedure, available when the rolling stock arrives for overhaul, for the whole team.
In the component workshop, the refurbishment procedure for your repairable parts, passed on before those who know it leave.
Making safe in the right order, before intervening. The tutorial prepares and rehearses; it does not replace authorisation.
Take the challenge (2 min)A job that comes round only once in the life of a train: the procedure passed on for the first one serves for all the others.
Autonomous faster on the real rolling stock, without tying up a mentor for each new arrival.
A fair comparison
They are useful tools. Under rolling stock, however, they impose a few constraints, by their very nature.
What we equip
The tutorial supports the task: your maintenance documents, electrical authorisation and the requirements for safety-critical tasks remain the reference.
Our hardware advice
As former industry professionals, we advise you as we would have advised ourselves: the device suited to your workshops, your PPE and your budget. Only solutions proven in real conditions.
Maintenance depots, maintenance and component workshops: that is where glasses and headsets give their best. Outdoor work and cold conditions require a case-by-case study.
A device that can be worn with your protective equipment, in the pit as on board the train, not just in a demo room.
The recommended device works offline, like the rest of the solution.
The right number of devices, of the right model, for your workshops and teams, without oversizing.
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.
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
Yes. No connection is required, whether to create, to learn or to track learners. Nothing is hosted by SHIFT89.
Our home ground is the workshop: maintenance depots, maintenance and component workshops. For infrastructure, we can help prepare and practise tasks in a training room or on training equipment; work outdoors requires a case-by-case study.
No. Your maintenance documents and the authorisation remain the reference. The tutorial shows the procedure on the rolling stock, at the moment it is carried out.
No. An instruction can be updated in a few minutes, by your expert.
One minute per instruction, a few minutes for a tutorial, during the inspection. No writing, no filming, no mandatory editing.
A 30-minute to 2-hour demo, in one of your workshops.
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