How Augmented Reality Can Improve Warehouse Operations and How Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality can be Used in Warehouses?
Enhancing Warehouse Operations with InfiVR AR/VR Solutions
Concerned about your package arriving late? It might be due to various warehouse operations like picking, packing, and cubing. This challenge becomes even greater if a beginner operator is handling your product. Ensuring warehouse employees work efficiently and quickly is always a difficult task.
But why is that so?
Let us go back now and comprehend. Among other things, a warehouse comprises zones, aisles, bays, racks, and various stations such as packing and returns. Forklifts, pallet trucks, and jacks are used to move inventory. To avoid injuries as well as damage to goods, a warehouse worker should be able to undertake these tasks without errors being made at any point.
Push for Better Warehouse Training
The retail industry is experiencing rapid growth, and the demand for goods has surged significantly. Furthermore, delivery speed has become a critical competitive factor. As a result, companies are compelled to expand their workforce and quickly train new employees. However, injuries like being struck by objects and forklift accidents are quite common, and handling hazardous materials requires thorough training. Hence, it is required to digitize through innovative solutions.
How AR/VR Can Be a Better Solution
AR/VR teaches learners how to pack and ship accurately by offering practical exercises similar to real-life cases. In addition, the trainee can see the actual warehouse without having to be physically present, thanks to an all-around view. AR glasses enhance performance by providing visual guidance, thereby requiring minimal training and saving time for operators..
Where It Can Have an Impact
1. Navigation:
AR can provide workers with directions and navigation within the warehouse, helping them quickly locate items and reduce walking distances, which eventually will increase productivity. AR smart glasses can be easily integrated with the mainframe to provide a digital replica of the warehouse for support.
Spatial computing allows the AR system to constantly update its understanding of the warehouse environment, taking into account changes in stock levels, product locations, and even real-time inventory adjustments.
2. Layout Optimization:
VR lets warehouse managers to immerse themselves in a 3D virtual representation of the warehouse, experiment with various layout designs in real-time, and assess the strengths and weaknesses of different configurations, including shelving arrangements, aisle widths, and equipment placement. These simulations help to find congestion points around the aisles and take strategic decisions.
3. Equipment Maintenance:
A warehouse runs on different devices; if any fail, it can impact whole operations. AR helps here by providing maintenance instructions on the display, guiding workers to troubleshoot the issue with the help of equipment diagrams, and bringing down the repair time. Workers can collaborate with engineers with the help of AR for guidance.
4. Safety:
Every company aims to prevent worker injuries and take preventive measures in case of accidents. AR/VR combines with spatial computing simulates safety scenarios, like emergency evacuations, and trains workers on appropriate response techniques. Integration of AR can improve hazard recognition and risk assessment reducing work-related injuries. Enhanced retention of information is a significant benefit of using XR.
5. AR & Spatial Computing Enhance Picking:
Order picking is one of the most costly tasks, requiring precise extraction of the correct product from its designated area in the correct quantity. Augmented reality headsets linked to mobile devices assist workers by guiding them to the optimal pick locations using the shortest routes possible. AR and spatial computing systems equipped with visual recognition aid in identifying and verifying the product.
InfiVR has provided augmented reality and spatial computing -based solutions to warehousing operators, bringing efficiency to their pick-and-drop operations. This has resulted in a reduction of errors and a decrease in mishandling and misplacement of inventory by over 56%, consequently reducing losses ranging in the millions of dollars.
Use AR and VR in Your Warehouse Today
We understand that every company aims to expand its business, boost productivity, and build a robust market presence. At InfiVR, we provide a range of warehouse solutions customized to improve how you manage your supply chain and operations.
We have developed 3D virtual reality training solutions for companies in various industries such as healthcare, oil and gas, logistics, and mining, with a focus on warehousing.
Our experts will study your business requirements and suggest appropriate tools that might be useful for you to exploit while using Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Spatial Computing, and Metaverse-based training, for better logistics management of transporting accurate goods in a timely fashion.
Just contact us today and leave everything else to us. We would like to help you improve your business operations too.
Contact us at hello@infivr.com.
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