Ario and BEMR Lab Unite to Investigate Navy’s Use of Augmented Reality
Building the future of training and maintenance
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
Ario and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific’s (SSC Pacific) Battle Space Exploitation of Mixed Reality (BEMR Lab) recently formed a unique relationship under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). Within the agreement, Ario and BEMR Lab will work together to conduct research on leveraging augmented reality for training and maintenance.
What is Ario?
Ario is a productivity software that increases safety and efficiency in industrial environments. Using augmented reality, teams can create, share and view real-time spatial information.
The Case for Training and Maintenance
A recent study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office shows that the amount of time required to meet the demand of complex procedures has shortened.
GAO’s prior work shows that the Navy has increased deployment lengths, shortened training periods, and reduced or deferred maintenance to meet high operational demands, which has resulted in declining ship conditions and a worsening trend in overall readiness.
— U.S. Government Accountability Office
Performing maintenance on equipment is critical to keeping military assets operational. The military has very carefully prepared procedures for performing maintenance, but sometimes documentation is out of date, unreadable, or confusing. Additionally, in order to perform particular tasks, the training time required to qualify personnel can be long. In many situations tasks are marked as completed, but it can be difficult to know if the work was done correctly, or if any steps were skipped.
The Ario platform addresses these concerns by simplifying the process to create and update procedures; it makes it easy to share procedures with organization members. Instead of following descriptions and diagrams in paper manuals, information is delivered to users with spatial relevance; when and where it is needed most. Using spatially-relevant guides such as navigational tools, 3D animations, videos, and tasks that are broken down into steps; these features can help streamline workflows in a significant way. This leads to significantly-reduced error rates and also allows relatively inexperienced users to safely perform work. The Ario platform also logs analytics for each task step, which can include images or video captured of the work being performed for logging, audits and training.
We’re excited to continue our work with SSC Pacific & BEMR Lab and are looking forward to providing you with updates as we have them.
More on BEMR Lab
BEMR Lab demonstrates how cutting edge, low-cost commercial of the shelf (COTS) mixed reality technology — virtual and augmented reality — is applied to training, operations, prototyping, and maintenance applications within the Navy and Marine Corps in the near future. (Click Here to View PDF Fact Sheet)
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