What
We Do
We support industrial and pharmaceutical companies with production facilities, transport companies and logistic centers to create real added value through the new possibilities with Extended Reality.
Industries We Cover
Manufacturing
Chemical Industry
Lifescience and Pharma
Transportation
Construction
Public Services
Energy
Inspect AR
Inspect AR is our out-of-the box digital checklist solution. Your business expert know-how can now become available on-site for maintenance, inspection, servicing and training. With Inspect AR, your existing checklists can be digitized within a few minutes.
XR Software Solutions
We develop tailored, interactive, immersive Augmented, Virtual and Mixed reality solutions for businesses. Our solutions for smartphones, tablets and mixed reality glasses like HoloLens and RealWear, optimize production, maintenance and servicing while providing added value in various fields of industries.
Meet
Inspect AR
Inspect AR is a comprehensive, scalable enterprise AR platform. When it comes to
maintenance, inspection, upkeep or training, you can no longer rely on paper and pen, but
on a digitized test process, supported by augmented reality!
Features of Inspect AR:
- Work Completely Offline
- Out-Of-The-Box Solution (SaaS)
- On-Premise On Your Servers
- Integration ERP Systems
- Integration Of Remote Calls
AR Technology Is Bringing Digitization To Places That Previously Had Little Contact
With IT.
In industrial halls, factories and logistics centers. Or in the healthcare and life science sectors.
Are you ready to benefit from new possibilities that bring added value for your business, pay-off quickly and improve your everyday life sustainably?
Why AR Applications Are
Worthwhile For You?
5 Reasons For Augmented Reality
Improved Knowledge Transfer
As an active learning method, AR is ideal for employees training in the shortest possible time. Knowledge can be transferred more quickly and in greater depth.
Interactive augmented reality instructions are projected directly over products, parts, machines and in entire plants. Employees can practice complex tasks in their real context, remember them more easily.
Direct guidance in 3D has been proven to reduce misinterpretations. This allows you to work with your employees more flexibly – even on machines or systems they are usually not used to operate.
Accelerated Process Optimization
Data-based maintenance and inspection processes can be improved quite easily.
Adapting digital instructions or incorporating feedback is very easy.
Thanks to the simple web UI, processes can be adapted quickly, e.g.
with knowledge from employees who are retiring – and rolled out immediately.
The very next inspection follows the new process.
With machine learning or further algorithms, you can improve processes even further by randomly fading in or out inspection points depending on the frequency of defects.
Increase Productivity
Save time and increase quality – with checklists, digital work reports that can be evaluated, defect recording or mobile remote support.
Travel costs are reduced, downtimes shortened. And expert knowledge becomes available to everyone more quickly. With augmented reality, employees can complete their tasks more efficiently, whether they use AR glasses or an augmented reality app on their smartphone.
More Safety, More Efficiency
With AR software, you have an overview of all maintenance work and benefit from real-time error reporting.
Issues are identified in real time and can be eliminated in using the issue management system. All inspection results are documented in a 100% transparent and traceable manner, e.g. to adher to compliance guidelines.
Better Collaboration At Distance
The technology enables inspection and maintenance tasks to be completed more quickly.
Whether via live navigation or remote support, the expert virtually joins the service technician on site and can provide very genuine support. Less business travel also means less downtime and happier employees.
AR solutions by Augment IT
Digital tools for training, guidance, inspection –
whatever you need!
Remote Guidance For Engineering And Manufacturing
Do you have factories and machinery in remote locations? Then sending experts for diagnostics and repair is time-consuming and expensive. Imagine the expert coming over virtually!
AR and supporting notes or information in the image help describe knowledge without words and provide cross-language support. This way, the expert guides employees on site to solve or avoid problems – in real time! This reduces travel costs and avoids production downtime.
You want to use augmented reality as one of the most practical tools for remote assistance? As a partner of the most different platform providers we advise you neutrally and find your best solution.
Custom Augmented Reality Development And Consulting
Agile like a start-up, but with years of experience, we develop cost-effective solutions that meet your business needs with pinpoint accuracy and efficiency.
You are not sure how to best implement the new technology in your company? Or do you already have very specific ideas about what you would like to improve, but are still looking for the best tools, components and devices for your individual process? With our expertise in custom software development, we can advise you on all aspects of AR technologies and end devices. As a full-service provider, we implement the solution for you.
Employee Training And Education
Save time and increase quality – with checklists, digital work reports that can be evaluated, defect recording or mobile remote support.
Travel costs are reduced, downtimes shortened. And expert knowledge becomes available to everyone more quickly. With augmented reality, employees can complete their tasks more efficiently, whether they use AR glasses or an augmented reality app on their smartphone.
Augmented Reality For
Maintenance And Inspection
With AR software, you have an overview of all maintenance work and benefit from real-time error reporting.
Issues are identified in real time and can be eliminated in using the issue management system. All inspection results are documented in a 100% transparent and traceable manner, e.g. to adher to compliance guidelines.
Augmented Reality Visualizations
Bring your ideas to life with the unlimited visualization possibilities of augmented reality. For building and infrastructure visualization, a true on-site view is possible – and early troubleshooting.
Use 3D product models interactively on site for demonstration purposes! Do you have complex models with 20 million polygons or point clouds with millions of points? Everything already implemented on HoloLens 2 with Azure Remote Rendering or iOS: We make your CAD data in AR easily available and scalable.
Utilizing New Service Potential
As a manufacturer, you not only increase your service quality with augmented reality, you can also unleash new sales potential. With Remote Guidance, you bring your expert knowledge directly to the customer on site.
Train your customer’s employees remotely, collect maintenance data in real time for predictive maintenance, keep service documents and protocols at the customer’s site always up-to-date! Augmented Reality enables real customer focus and new service models.
Devices And Platforms
We Can Find The Right Solution. For Your Business
We follow a best-of-breed approach, and we are independent of platforms and mobile devices. For us, the focus is on AR applications that provide our customers with the best possible support in their working environment.
No matter which device, solutions from AugmentIT are designed to run on future generations – and are therefore absolutely investment-proof. We have many years of experience and have already developed numerous projects for smartphones, tablets as well as HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest 2, Magic Leap, RealWear, and Vuzix.
We see great potential in the virtual reality glasses Oculus Quest 2, e.g. for training, joint inspections, virtual inspections as well as on-site. Read more in our blog post about the advantages of the different devices.
References
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Your AR Team
We Love What We Do.
Augment IT is a leading Swiss software company specializing in mixed and augmented reality solutions for enterprises. We are a team of dedicated and passionate professionals based in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Macedonia.
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Let’s talk about how you can use AR in your company. Or let’s make an appointment for a product demonstration right away.
Testimonials
What Our Clients Says
“With Netcetera, we have an excellent partner on our side.”
Andreas Bischof
Head of Apprenticeship, Bühler AG, Uzwil
“On the one hand, the use of AR technology reduces the inspection effort, because instead of going through all inspection points as usual, those responsible for it can focus specifically on the items reported as defects. On the other hand, it creates opportunities for detailed data evaluations.”
Daniel Zollinger
Senior Team Lead of Manufacturing Arxada
“Inspect AR is used for machine inspections at our company and should significantly reduce the administrative work of our service technicians during customer visits.”
Philipp Troxler
Service Consultant Manager Spühl GmbH, Wittenbach
"With Inspect AR, we are implementing our vision of paperless machine and plant inspections. At the same time, our entire technical know-how in the field of quality assurance is managed by one solution. In addition, assembly technicians are enabled to execute quality inspections on their own without specific programming skills. In this way, we increase our efficiency significantly."
Adrian Faust
CTO of Häny
“Inspect AR helps maintenance personnel perform work of the same quality with less training and experience. Our company expects more flexibility in personnel scheduling as a result.”
Roman Fischer
Head of IT and Q-Systems Member of the Executive Board Müller Gleisbau AG, Frauenfeld
“We are missing the link that makes it available to the surgeon. That’s where the collaboration with Netcetera fits in perfectly, and we hope that we will accomplish a lot more together.”
Prof. Dr. Andreas Raabe
Chairman and Head, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern University Hospital
Frequently Asked Questions
Need answers fast? Find our FAQ and answers bellow.
Does Augment IT Also Offers Augmented Reality Consulting?
Yes, we see ourselves as an agency around Augmented Reality and support customers with our know-how from numerous applications. In this way, mature AR apps and AR software for very individual needs are created again and again – for companies but also for research. In addition, we advise on all aspects of Virtual Reality (VR) and Virtual Reality applications (e.g. VR Apps). Especially in the simulation area, Virtual Reality is often an interesting choice.
How To Start A Custom Project?
The first steps are often the same: We start with a proof-of-concept or pilot project to validate the concrete feasibility of the application and the added value in your environment. We clarify how the data flow and integration work in your system landscape, which interfaces are needed and which specific additional requirements can be implemented by you with reasonable effort. We are also happy to develop a concept for how you can make optimal use of this technology.
How Long Does A Project Take – From Request To Implementation?
Our out-of-the-box solutions can be integrated directly into your IT landscape. So you’ll be productive faster without any major effort. Individual AR solutions typically take several months, depending on requirements. We always make sure to use the best possible components for our customers – and to keep the costs within reasonable limits.
What Is The Difference Between Augmented Reality (AR) And Virtual Reality (VR)?
With augmented reality, you see the world around you as it is. It is enhanced with additional interactive information in the real environment. That’s why it’s also called augmented reality, because the real world and virtual content are visible at the same time.
It is different with virtual reality, or virtual reality. To use a VR application, for example a virtual reality app, a completely closed VR goggle is needed. The user moves in a completely virtual space and sees nothing but a virtual world.
One more note on hardware: you don’t need to invest in high-end data glasses to use the technology. Android smartphones or tablets are ideal for getting started. With the latest generations of iPhones and iPads, Apple delivers very high precision for AR navigation.
What Services Does Augment IT Offer?
We are your expert partner for innovative mixed and augmented reality applications. As an augmented reality agency, we offer the complete range of services: We create a concept and take over the programming up to the implementation of your augmented reality solution. Just like the consulting around data glasses or the use of mobile devices. This enables you to exploit the full potential of AR technology, optimize processes, create new experiences and innovate together.
Who Is Behind Augment IT?
Augment IT is a business unit of the medium-sized Swiss software company Netcetera AG. With 700 employees in eight offices worldwide, Netcetera supports medium-sized and large companies in their digital transformation into high-tech enterprises. In addition to its core business as a provider of financial software, Netcetera has established other pillars.
Augment IT is a full-service provider for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology. As an augmented reality agency, we are also happy to implement individual augmented reality applications, VR projects and AR solutions for our customers. We support optimizing processes, creating new AR experiences and making expert knowledge available everywhere.
Which Applications Can Be Achived On The Inspect AR Platform?
Inspect AR for inspection and maintenance is ideal for plant checks, inspection rounds, incoming and outgoing inspections, final inspections, safety and compliance checks, or for regular maintenance to ensure quality, e.g. as an app for the smartphone.
Today, inspection processes of plants and products are often paper-based and manual. Analyses and interpretation of inaccurate inspection results often lead to wrong conclusions. Thus, traceability for future improvements is limited. In addition, the inspection process itself is often tied to one inspection expert and not transferable to other employees. As a result, the inspection process is often slow and not reliable.
Numerous industries such as mechanical engineering, life science, logistics, transportation, aerospace & defense, etc. have already recognized this and are using augmented reality software or apps to gain competitive advantage. AR content such as AR instructions is also being used in the life science and chemical sectors for plant control and quality assurance. In industries such as transportation, logistics and building services, augmented reality combined with AR glasses is very useful because both hands remain free for important tasks. This saves time and increases quality.
In the future, more industries will want to use a robust and secure capability that scales across multiple application areas: e.g., onboarding, training, field service management, safety inspections, meeting compliance requirements, individual process improvements, sign-offs and maintenance. In addition, new capabilities such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will become available for better predictions. In the short term, integration with the Internet of Things (IoT) will become an increased topic, such as for live display of sensor data on machines. In essence, however, developments in the AR market will primarily: continue.
