Kaak about our ILC-platform
September 17, 2021
Kaak is using our ILC platform as a launching customer.
“We don’t want to go back.”
Kaak began testing our ILC platform in January 2021. With results! Not only their assembly processes are more efficient thanks to our platform. Customers want more, staff embrace the new way of working and even more can be done remotely. In this article you can read what, according to Manager R&D Frank Verouden, are the 10 biggest advantages of the platform.
“Contacting you came at just the right time, corona constraints forced us to look for other ways of working. Then the AR assembly solution came along where the platform plays a big role.”
Frank Verouden | Manager R&D Kaak
In short.
The Industrial Life Cycle platform
Create virtual and augmented reality instructions independently. Our ILC platform makes it possible. From prototyping to marketing / sales and from maintenance to support, the platform proves its value in all phases of the Industrial Life Cycle. Certainly, it is also very easy to implement. Moreover, with the simple online editor you are always fully in control.
The 10 benefits according to Kaak
1 A platform that grows with you
“We started bare. This means that we didn’t have an overkill of features in the ILC platform. Precisely because it was not so generic, we were able to customize the platform to our liking. This is important in order to maximize accessibility. Work is going to be moved around. From in the field to behind the desk. Engineers create the instructions so that others, anywhere in the world, can do the assembly jobs.”
” That freedom proved essential for us to grow incrementally with the platform.”
2 No more piles of paper
“Our own people write the instructions for the machinery themselves. So that means the mechanics don’t have to leaf through fistfuls of manuals. The platform makes the interpretation of drawings more efficient and simple. So even unskilled mechanics can do the assembly work.”
3 Parts are recognized faster
“Just the frame of a 10-meter-high proofing cabinet has 25 steps. Because we can oversee the assembly process directly, in real time and in 3D, and see at a glance which part we need, we can work even more decisively than before.”
4 Experience is no longer lost
“Engineers with more than 40 years of experience write the instructions for the platform. That experience is ‘stored’ in the platform, as it were. In addition, it makes us much less dependent on our own people. ”
5 Fewer miles, more local
“For example, if we deliver a machine to South America. Then we normally put five of our people on the plane. Now it only has to be one. All the knowledge we need is in the platform and we hire specialists locally. That not only saves time and capacity, but also a lot of CO2 emissions.”
#6 Servicetool
“Customers don’t want the responsibility of a million-dollar investment. With an AR-driven manual, we put a lot of that responsibility on ourselves as well. To the customer, of course, that’s very service-oriented.”
7 Security of Supply
“COVID has shown in 2020 and 2021 that we actually need this technology to continue to deliver well. Because we now have everything standardized and tested in advance, we can serve customers even better.”
8 Minimum error margins
“Red and green dots indicate which tasks you still have to do. This provides an overview, but also offers the necessary security during the assembly process.”
9 Even more is now possible. Customers see that too.
“One of our customers now wants everything to be remote, including machine maintenance. We are now looking at how we can implement this with the deployment of the ILC platform.”
10 It’s really plug-and-play
“By our colleagues at Kaak, the platform and the AR solution were seen as a gadget at first. From the moment they got their hands on it, they were immediately convinced. You immediately see how it works, which makes assembly even more efficient and faster. Because it is so intuitive, the old hands in the trade were soon on board! But even unfamiliar assemblers could use the solution without any instruction.”
Experience the platform during a demo
We are looking for launching customers for the ILC platform. The platform will be made available completely free of charge in exchange for feedback. To allow companies to get acquainted with the platform first, we offer a demo. During the demo you will discover the possibilities of the platform. You can independently add instructions and visualize them using, for example, virtual reality. Fill out the form below to schedule a demo. We will contact you as soon as possible.