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Augmented Reality Advancement: Romer Arm Scanner
DirectProject is an augmented reality application that uses 3-D optical projection to service in measurement comparison points and PolyWorks, by means of a scanning arm. Utilizing DirectProject involves various software components, including: MANUscript, ProjectionWorks Registration Utility, ProjectionWorks Hive Manager Service, DirectProject, and appropriate plugin application DLL(s). Incorporating these components allows you to achieve a projection […]
Meet the ProjectionWorks Family
Since our initial AssemblyWorks product release at the end of 2009, the ProjectionWorks family has come a long way. For the first three years, the “family” had only one member but continued adoption by industry, Delta Sigma Company (DSC) investment, and important United States Air Force contributions, greatly expanding the family over the past three […]
Get Your Hands On a Faster Harness
What’s the costliest part of assembling a wire harness? Likely, it’s the time technicians spend deciphering written documentation, determining the correct wire routes, and reworking the harness when there is an error. What if you could eliminate all those issues? Reduce frustration, increase return on investment (ROI) HarnessWorks — an offering from the award-winning assembly […]
Ready, Player One? AssemblyWorks: The Game
To collect data for our analysis of the human performance improvement that the augmented reality products in our ProjectionWorks family provide, Delta Sigma Company needed volunteers to participate in our structured experiment. What better way to get people to participate than to turn the experiment into a game? We did just that, creating AssemblyWorks: The […]
Is the “Knowledge Gap” Bogging Down Your Assembly Operations?
Assembly of complex parts, such as aircraft components, relies on human activity. Aerospace and other manufacturers of large, complex equipment use assembly drawings to build their products. Technicians read and interpret assembly documentation and drawings, then must transfer that knowledge onto the component that they are putting together. Although this process seems simple enough, it […]
Augmented Reality: From Fiction to Fact
Fall is in the air, and chances are you’ve caught a football game (or several!) on television over the past few weeks. You know the yellow line that marks the first down — the one that moves under the players as the game changes? That line is one of the first commercial uses of augmented […]
In-Process Verification Makes Inroads
How costly are mistakes in wire harness assembly? For many organizations, such costs are difficult to quantify, as it depends on where in the process a mistake is discovered. But why is rework simply accepted as part of the process? It’s time to change our mindset and our approach to verification and inspection. In-process verification: […]
How Can Optical Projection Improve Production?
Q: How can optical projection improve production? Complex assembly tasks depend heavily on two things: 1) the accessibility and clarity of the instructions and 2) the technician’s skill. The problem lies in the intersection of these two areas. Technicians must transfer knowledge into action. In other words, the tech must read task instructions and drawings, […]
Ensuring Accurate Grip Length
Q. Our technicians are using AssemblyWorks. How can we ensure that they have the correct grip data for the particular aircraft assembly they’re working on at any given time? A. When working with composite assemblies, technicians might come across discrepancies between the grip length that is specified in the engineering design and the actual thickness […]
Want a Leaner Hardware Inventory? Take a Look at AFIS
Q. I’m interested in implementing a custom hardware kitting system for an aircraft component assembly process. What expertise does Delta Sigma Company (DSC) have in this area? A. DSC has recently broadened our engineer-to-order (ETO) skill set to include hardware kitting for aerospace assembly operations. We’ve developed the Automated Fastener Installation System (AFIS), a solution […]