Remoulding Food Production with AR & VR

Technology-based maintenance proceedings are introduced in food production plants worldwide to thwart and handle the risks.

Fremont, CA: AR and VR technologies have begun to create headway within the food industry. While development costs are still high, numerous F&B companies are starting to understand AR/VR's potential and consider it a sound investment. Industrial maintenance can be pricey and time-consuming, but the plant ecosystem must stay efficient and operational.

Even a temporary downtime can give rise to a loss of manufacturing for the food industry. As a result, many companies have prioritized improving maintenance quality with enhanced acceptance of preventive or predictive maintenance methods.

Technologies like AR/VR prove valuable to help maintenance engineers repair equipment and systems faster and more effectively. Maintenance employees can employ a VR headset or mobile device to see a greater hardware perspective, emphasizing individual component performance data and the perfect way to access them.

The engineer can look at real-time system data and see which parts play inefficiently using a purpose-built AR application. If so, the compressor needs lubrication of the evaporator. The engineer can then solve this in the least disruptive manner possible, minimizing the impact on the production of the necessary maintenance.

With all this, VR and AR are far more than quirky techniques for industrial enterprises. If properly used with an IIoT platform that promotes predictive maintenance, they can help plant executives achieve the next level of industrial maintenance effectiveness, where inevitable downtime can be minimized to moments.