JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #130 - September/October 2019 - 4

MOVING COMPOSITES FORWARD

"AI and Wearables increase production efficiency"

JEC Composites Magazine: Can you describe
your respective careers and responsibilities
at Google and Plataine

James Lee: I serve as Head of Sales

and Partnerships for Google Glass. I have
worked at Google for 9 years in various sales
leadership roles including Google Cloud,
Apps, Chromebooks, Android, and now
Glass. Part of my job is to talk about how
Google Glass is enabling greater productivity for the hands-on worker in today's most
complex manufacturing environments.

Avner Ben-Bassat: I'm the President & CEO of Plataine, a leading provider
of Industrial IoT and AI-based optimization solutions for manufacturing. My role is
to lead Plataine's vision and global business
strategy as well as maintaining its leading
position in the industry. My background is
Mathematics and Computer Sciences and
I hold an MBA from Duke University.
How does Google Glass help the digital
transition of industries? How can this transformation be initiated?

J.L.: In industrial enterprises, Glass En-

terprise Edition is a new class of device
that empowers the hands-on worker, such
as those who build commercial jets, wind
turbines, and combine harvesters. Static
work instructions stored in manufacturing
execution systems are now viewed in Glass,
and dynamic, AI-based, alerts and recom-

with

James Lee
Head of Sales & Partnerships
Google Glass
Avner Ben-Bassat
President & CEO
Plataine

mendations are provided by Plataine. So
now workers can instantly access these
instructions through Glass instead of having to walk 10 feet to a laptop or worse to a
binder full of paper printouts. Glass allows
these hands-on workers to maintain their
focus on their tasks, greatly reducing error
rates and the necessity for costly rework.

A.B.: In today's Manufacturing era, operators need to consider hundreds of parameters in a short amount of time in order to
perform their jobs. The need for smart-digital assistants for every employee is becoming more and more crucial. Google Glass
can bring those digital assistants to the operator, empowering them to make better
decisions, faster. Glass is wearable, allowing
the operator to be hands-free, keeping the
entire manufacturing process digital. Every
employee now has an intelligent, trusted
advisor right next to him...
What are the impacts on operators on a
daily basis? What range of services does
Google Glass offer during a production
phase?

J.L.: Glass Enterprise Edition has helped
workers in a variety of industries-from
logistics, to manufacturing, to field services-do their jobs more efficiently by providing hands-free access to the information
and tools they need to complete their work.
Workers can use Glass to access checklists,

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view instructions or send inspection photos or videos, and our enterprise customers have reported faster production times,
improved quality, and reduced costs after
using Glass.
Google Glass can bring those
digital assistants to the operator,
empowering them to make better
decisions, faster.

Google Glass reached the consumer market in 2013, and
are now experiencing a "second life" in the manufacturing world. Worn by manufacturing process operators in
production units, and driven by artificial intelligence, they
offer direct access to production data, and constitute another tool to increase production efficiencies and improve
quality. Plataine and Google Glass talk to us about their
collaborative work and the potential it offers composite part
manufacturers.

Which companies have adopted this
solution? What is their feedback? (e. g.
influence on productivity, work stress)

J.L.: GE's mechanics now use Glass run-

ning software from one of our partners,
which shows them instructions with videos, animations and images right in their
line of sight so they don't have to stop
work to check their binders or computer to know what to do next. Since using
Glass, they estimate that they have not
only reduced errors at key points in the
assembly and overhaul of engines, but
that they have improved their mechanics'
efficiency by between 8-12%.
GE was one of the first businesses to experience the benefits of Glass in the workplace. Now, there are more than 50 businesses, including AGCO, DHL, Dignity
Health, NSF International, Sutter Health,
The Boeing Company, and Volkswagen,
who have been using Glass to complete

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