Simplify the management and monitoring of your equipment
Ensuring the availability of equipment, buildings, vehicles, and guaranteeing their reliability and ensuring the safety of personnel have become major issues for companies. In a competitive world, they need to enhance performance and cannot afford production downtimes or unavailable services.
For this purpose, they must constantly know the health status of their assets, avoid any failure, and when necessary, intervene quickly, at the right time and under the best conditions.
While CMMS solutions greatly simplify the lives of maintenance services on this matter, especially through their mobile extensions, new complementary technologies like IoT and augmented reality have a real positive impact on maintenance practices.
The real contributions of augmented reality in maintenance
The combination of augmented reality with real-time IoT data allows technicians to:
1- Quickly identify the equipment requiring maintenance
Augmented reality displays precise and localized information in real-time. With interactive codes (bleam, for example), technicians save time identifying the equipment and have all the necessary operation-related information on their mobile device.
2- Access the right information in the right place at the right time
Beyond the obvious time savings in terms of searching for information and going back and forth between the office and the job site, technicians will increase operational efficiency by resolving technical queries about the equipment, the history of interventions, precautions to be taken before an operation, or the actions to be performed. Maintenance operators have real-time access to the necessary documents or information to carry out their tasks.
This also results in a reduction in intervention times and downtimes, improved performance, increased operator safety, and a reduction in potential errors…
The bleam not only allows technicians to find information to simplify their intervention, but it also enables the end user to:
- view the history of interventions
- access technical documentation
- initiate a service request
Furthermore, the end user can also access information from the same bleam: operation manuals, hotline calls, report and track incidents. This way, the user is involved in a more sustainable approach (CSR).
The benefits of such a solution:
- Time savings on operations
- Secured interventions
- Data reliability for predictive maintenance
- Equipment data reliability
- Equipment availability
- Safety of personnel
- Increased operational reliability
Key applications of augmented reality in maintenance with ubleam
Connected to the mobile application CMMS DimoMaint MX, the Ubleam solution facilitates equipment management through unique digital coding of the assets and a functional Hub offered in augmented reality.
Among the most frequent use cases in maintenance:
- Maintenance rounds
The inspection tour is scheduled in the CMMS. Technicians review the tasks at hand and head to the equipment that needs to be checked.
At any time, they can press the “Bleam” button to scan and verify that they are at the correct equipment using augmented reality.
They can access documentation either in the CMMS for maintenance work or on Ubleam for technical product documentation.
They close their intervention by either clicking on the bleam interface (BI) or directly in the CMMS, and can leave a detailed report on the object’s history in the bleam.
- Technical operations
They scan the bleam on the equipment to consult the documentation and work history.
If there’s a problem, they can open a service request directly in the CMMS by scanning the bleam.
- Inventory
Anyone with the Ubleam app can participate in the equipment inventory.
By scanning the bleam, they can update the object’s attributes in real-time in Fusion, Ubleam’s back office: location, condition, etc.
If they have access to the CMMS, by pressing the interface, they can view the equipment file and take a field report.
- Compliance checks
The compliance officer has a list of equipment to inspect. They can use the CMMS.
By scanning the bleam, they verify the displayed compliance state, the date of the last check, and previous check reports.
Total harnesses the power of augmented reality applied to maintenance with Ubleam. Among the users of this hybrid solution DIMOMaint & Ubleam, Total Marketing Services is rolling it out across its network of depots and warehouses.
