Certain hardware and/or software expands the possibilities for helping the manufacturing workforce and assisting companies in operating more efficient factories and training their employees—and one of the more innovative technologies is eye-tracking.
On June 4, Smart Industry was fortunate to host Keith Bartels, director of products and solutions for Tobii, a leader in eye-tracking technology and support services, for a webinar that focused on Tobii’s offerings and how they can benefit manufacturers’ training and efficiency improvements. Tobii also served as sponsor for the 44-minute program.
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Bartels emphasized during the webinar that if a company has long-term employees heading toward retirement and new ones who must get up to speed quickly on sensitive factory-floor processes, its eye-tracking technology can capture that knowledge and pass it along to those in need.
Eye-tracking technology, embedded into lightweight but durable glasses for use on the factory floor, can be a powerful tool for employee training, allowing factories to optimize skills transfer in their industrial training, Bartels noted.
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By recording users' eye movements and areas of focus as they perform tasks, eye-tracking technology gives training managers the chance to identify best practices and opportunities for users to perform detail-oriented work, he said.
Bartels also answered a handful of questions from webinar's registrants and played an interview he conducted with two representatives from Kubota, the agricultural machinery and construction equipment manufacturer, about Kubota's utilization of Tobii's eye-tracking technology and its effectiveness.
The Tobii program is available for replay by filling out a short registration form. If you registered prior to the webinar's air date, you should have received an email from Smart Industry notifying you that the replay is available for viewing.
