What is an Operator Guidance System (OGS)?
An Operator Guidance System (OGS) is a digital solution designed to assist human operators in performing complex tasks with greater precision, efficiency, and consistency, particularly in manufacturing and assembly environments. Think of it as a “satellite navigation system for your production line,” providing step-by-step instructions and real-time feedback.
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Operator guidance system (OGS)
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Transformation of your manual workstations into digital environments
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Deploying Augmented Reality (AR)
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Facilitating the adoption of sustainable manufacturing
Key features and components of an OGS
Replaces paper manuals with clear, interactive, and often visual step-by-step instructions displayed on screens. These can include images, videos, and augmented reality (AR) overlays.
Uses sensors, vision systems (computer vision), and smart tools to monitor the operator’s actions and provide immediate feedback. This helps prevent errors by alerting operators to incorrect steps, missing parts, or improper tool usage
Guides operators to the correct parts for assembly using illuminated bins or indicators, ensuring the right components are picked at each stage.
Highlight and unlock the specific socket needed for a task, streamlining the assembly process.
Used to load relevant work instructions, confirm correct parts, and manage inventory.
Overlays digital information directly onto the real-world workspace, providing immersive guidance and simplifying complex tasks.
Records all actions for traceability, identifies bottlenecks, tracks operator performance, and provides data for continuous improvement initiatives.
Can integrate with existing business systems like Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).
Benefits of implementing an OGS
Significantly minimises human error, which is a major cause of quality defects and rework. This leads to higher quality products and reduced scrap.
Streamlines workflows, reduces cognitive load on operators, and accelerates task completion, resulting in enhanced throughput and efficiency.
Provides easy-to-follow instructions, allowing new or temporary workers to become proficient much faster, reducing training durations.
Ensures tasks are performed correctly and consistently, resulting in standardised processes and improved product quality
Logs all actions and data, providing a comprehensive history of the assembly process for quality control and regulatory compliance purposes.
Supports high-mix, low-volume production environments by enabling easy customisation of instructions for various product variants.
Supports high-mix, low-volume production environments by enabling easy customisation of instructions for various product variants.
Lowers costs associated with rework, scrap, and training.
In essence, an Operator Guidance System:
- Bridge the gap between human operators and increasingly complex manufacturing processes.
- Empowering the workforce.
- Improving quality, and
- Driving overall operational excellence.
We are utilising Augmented Reality (AR), also known as Mixed Reality (MR). This technology overlays real-time 3D-rendered computer graphics onto a portion of the real world through a display, such as a handheld device.
This experience is seamlessly interwoven with the physical world such that it is perceived as an immersive aspect of the real environment. In this way, Augmented Reality alters one’s ongoing perception of a real-world environment, whereas virtual reality aims to completely replace the user’s real-world environment with a simulated one.
Augmented Reality is typically visual, but can span multiple sensory modalities, including auditory, haptic, and somatosensory.