The Automotive industry drives towards Augmented Reality.

The global automotive manufacturing sector is one of the biggest industries worldwide. Each year, 60 million vehicles are produced and the industry employs millions of people.

Around the world, automotive manufacturing plants are often surrounded by other facilities that feed the OEM, such as steel plants, component suppliers and glass producers. They all contribute to a manufacturing ECO system, typically producing discrete parts for subassemblies, while being supported by an automated, relatively fixed material handling process.

To be competitive, the automotive manufacturers have been moving to a ‘Build to Order’ process. This approach forces suppliers to increase investments in sequencing, lean manufacturing and part traceability. Build to Order also requires all industry players to optimize production efficiency and reduce waste and costs. These ambitions need to be realized in a constraint labour market which is confronted with a dramatic turnover of people and a continuous challenge of recruiting skilled personnel.
As EVs become more mainstream, green credentials based solely on the powertrain will gradually become less of a convincing factor. Efficient and eco-friendly production will resurface as one of the key sources of differentiation.

Therefore, automotive manufacturers and suppliers alike will have to revolutionize the way they manufacture, improve and distribute their products. They have to integrate new technologies into their production facilities throughout their operations. They will also have to improve the efficiency and quality of the variety of tasks, still to be performed by manual operators, through the provision of a well-controlled, standardized environment. This is where Arkite steps in!