Mixed-reality guides for manufacturing

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Business value

With mixed-reality instructions, manufacturers can avoid numerous hours of lost productivity, improve throughput per line, reduce the frequency of rework for supported tasks by 50 percent, and reduce technician and worker task time by up to 40 percent.

Feature details

Integrate Supply Chain Management with Dynamics 365 Guides to unlock a new dimension of efficiency in scenarios such as assembly, service, operations, certification, regulations, and safety procedures. This feature lets you integrate Supply Chain Management with Dynamics 365 Guides to create mixed-reality, step-by-step instructions for production processes. It enables you to attach guides to various aspects of production control, including:

  • Resources
  • Resource groups
  • Released products
  • BOMs and BOM versions
  • Formulas and formula versions
  • Routes and route versions
  • Route operation relations

When a first-line worker starts a new job on the shop floor, they can choose to see a list of QR codes for guides related to that job. To load a guide into their HoloLens, the worker just scans the relevant QR code, which then launches the mixed-reality work instructions.

Work operating along mixed-reality guide using HoloLens

See also

Provide mixed-reality Guides for workers in production (docs)