The Record - Issue 20: Spring 2021

75 AUTOMOT I V E Rodney McAffee Vice President of Industrial Engineering at Kognitiv Spark “By using RemoteSpark on HoloLens, automotive organisations, whether they’re an OEM, manufacturer, or a supplier organisation, can enable the seamless flow of task-relevant knowledge throughout their organisations. This industrial remote support system allows front-line workers to call expert resources when they need assistance solving a complex problem. Experts can transfer task-relevant assets to the workers which then appear as holograms in the workers real- world environment. By combining shared voice and video guidance from the expert and task- supporting 3D assets, automotive workers can easily understand the problem and how to fix it. On average, RemoteSpark clients can reduce maintenance and inspection related travel between 60 per cent and 75 per cent and reduce equipment downtime by 30 per cent. By plugging RemoteSpark into Azure Remote Rendering, workers can interact with digital designs of vehicles or equipment in full-fidelity 3D, a format intuitively understood by the human brain. What this translates to for workers is less time spent bent over and parsing through 2D drawings of instructions, equipment, or through physical manuals and more time getting their jobs done.” With the automotive industry set to undergo a period of dramatic change in the coming years, we asked Kognitiv Spark how they are helping automotive companies to boost their productivity with Microsoft HoloLens Efficient transformation