German car manufacturer Volkswagen has started rolling out 3D smart glasses as standard equipment at its Wolfsburg plant in North Germany.
The glasses are given to the plant logistics personnel who are using them on voluntary basis for order picking.
The 3D smart glasses comes with touch or voice control through which users automatically receive the information they need regarding storage locations or part numbers onto their field of vision.
The 3D glass also comes with a camera that can be used as a barcode reader that shows the correct barcodes on parts removed from the storage location in green, while parts incorrectly removed are shown in red.
Volkswagen said that presently around 30 employees belonging to different areas like windshields and driveshafts are working with the smart glasses.
Volkswagen works council member Mario Kurznack-Bodner said: "The benefits of new technology like the smart glasses can only be assessed effectively if we can check them out in normal production operation.
"The colleagues concerned approach the technology without any preconceived notions. Apart from health, safety and occupational medicine criteria, it is important to the Works Council that feedback from employees should be taken up and reflected in everyday work."
Depending upon the success of the glasses at the Wolfsburg plant, Volkswagen plans to use the glasses across its other departments and plants.
Recently Volvo teamed up with Microsoft to develop next generation automotive technologies and agreed to use HoloLens to transform the way cars are bought and sold.
Image: Volkswagen rolls out 3D smart glasses as standard equipment. Photo: courtesy of Volkswagen.
