The Augmentir connected worker platform is designed to help manufacturing and service teams improve operations, close skills gaps, capture tribal knowledge, and drive continuous improvement efforts.
Ben Brakenwagen, account executive with Dirac, sat down with ASSEMBLY Audible to discuss Dirac’s automated work instruction platform, BuildOS, and its role in model-based manufacturing.
Imagine an assembly line where each tool monitors how it’s used; errors are detected before they occur; and digital work instructions adjust in real time based on live feedback. That concept is now possible with VKS 7.0 digital work instruction software from Visual Knowledge Share Ltd.
Laerdal Medical is one of the world’s leading suppliers of models for teaching people how to do CPR, intubate a patient or even deliver a baby. To ensure that each bust is assembled correctly and shipped with the right auxiliary components, Laerdal engineers implemented Tulip Vision, a vision-based error-proofing system from Tulip Interfaces Inc.
Software enables Ancra Aircraft to optimize its assembly process by replacing text-based work instructions with animated, model-based, visual instructions.
With BuildOS, engineers drop in a CAD file, and the software automatically generates path plans, sequences assembly steps, produces 3D renderings and animations, and generates text for each instruction.
BuildOS generates path plans, sequences assembly steps, produces 3D renderings and animations, and generates text for each instruction.
April 2, 2025
NEW YORK—Dirac Inc. has released a new version of its BuildOS software, which uses CAD data to generate work instructions for complex mechanical assemblies.
Users include manufacturers of engines, medical devices, appliances, guitars and bicycles.
April 2, 2025
REDWOOD CITY, CA—Some 230 small and midsized manufacturers have begun the digital transformation process by taking advantage of an offer by software supplier Pico MES to use its digital work instruction suite of tools for free.
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