As an Instructional Designer its important to have the ability to make mistakes without adding additional cost to the final product. AR is a tool that enables designers to make as many mistakes when designing a final product without adding time or cost to the project. Working groups can try out a product through AR and identify kinks that need to be corrected prior to creating the final project. Today I will look at AR in the manufacturing and production industry. How does this correlate to instructional design? The manufacturing industry creates products and trains employees on products. In manufacturing many of the machines have multiple parts that create the whole. In the design process different groups are in charge of creating the many parts to create the machine. When different design teams who work on one part don't account for how the other part fits, the machine will not work. You are thinking to yourself surely that doesn't happen does it? You just need to look at the long line of products that were recalled due to defects in the design. I won't mention the manufactures name but all of these products caused a defect which led to injury or death. Defects in easy bake ovens, defective gas pedals, baby slings, tires, bean bag chairs, high chairs, drop side cribs and cruise control. I have included a link below if you are interested in the defect. The fact is that instead of creating physical models AR lets any industry including engineers and designers to design a product. If the model works in AR then the design team can move on to a physical creation. This feature of AR helps save production cost, design team time, and overall quality of the final product. AR is an invaluable tool no matter what industry you find yourself employed in.
https://www.frayneaccidentinjurylaw.com/blog/10-famous-product-recalls/
Tammy,
ReplyDeleteGreat thoughts regarding AR use during design and production in industry. I never really thought about how valuable AR platforms could be to designers, engineers, and architects. Assuming that the physics are properly replicated, AR experimentation must serve to eliminate many, if not all, design flaws, which result in costly and dangerous recall events. Further, the concept of physical trial and error, which must be quite costly and time consuming, is drastically reduced through the utilization of AR platforms. Great pints Tammy, thank you.
-Donny
Donny
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. One of the classes I took for my Masters in Occupational Safety and Health was an engineering class that dealt with systems. You would be amazed how many projects the class studied in which different teams created products that did not work together as a whole. Were talking millions in dollars in losses. AR would have been a great way to make sure all designs worked in concert with the final product. Thanks for your comments.
Tammy
Tammy,
ReplyDeleteThis is a good use of the digital world augmented reality creates. Allowing everyone to plug in their parts to see how they work together will save lots of money and time. Donny has a good point though, if the information is not plugged in right you wont truly know. But I believe with every good there is a bad. AR will now create problems because of fat fingers entering data. And that is not the worst problem you can have. No one dies when a digital world goes wrong. Great example of how AR can help.
Tammy, I really enjoyed this week's post. Developing something in a test area such as AR makes so much sense. I am reminded of implementations of new databases or software. Often there is a test area where a user gets to assess the functionality without impacting other operations. Always a smart move I think. I think you are also on point with the cost savings aspect. It makes too much sense to develop the product using AR first. Thank you for the information :)
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Tammy,
ReplyDeleteI am not sure how testing a model in AR can help the product become durable. However, I do believe that it helps identify design flaws possibly. Great discussion this week.