Digital Reality Technology: Empowering Today’s Knowledge Workers
August 2, 2018
For the summer 2018 issue of Target magazine, journalist Glenn Marshall writes about how digital reality technologies such as AR and VR are reinventing the role of the knowledge worker. In the article, entitled “Developing the next generation of digital knowledge workers,” Marshall described how companies are embracing an emerging “no collar” workforce – ... Read more
Index AR Solutions Takes the Stage at LiveWorx 18
July 6, 2018
Index AR Solutions Vice President Scott Sommers recently presented at LiveWorx 18, a respected digital transformation conference, showcasing how the company is helping enterprise organizations launch augmented reality (AR) projects that deliver tremendous business benefit. At the event held in Boston June 17-20 for some 6,000 attendees, Sommers joined other technology thought leaders who ... Read more
Index AR Solutions Partners with MidAmerican Energy on Gas Apprentice SuperApp® to Modernize Workforce Training
June 11, 2018
Pairing of Augmented Reality and Rich eBook Content to Make Training of New Gas Utility Workers Faster and More Effective Williamsburg, Va. – Index AR Solutions announced today it has partnered with MidAmerican Energy Company to launch a combined augmented reality (AR) and eBook training application for its gas apprentice students that boosts engagement, knowledge ... Read more
Index AR Solutions Spring 2018 Retreat for Utilities Showcases Augmented Reality as a Tool for Competitive Advantage
June 5, 2018
Williamsburg, Va. – Faced with mounting competitive pressure from alternative energy sources and changing employee demographics, utilities of all sizes are turning to augmented reality (AR) to empower workers and realize significant new efficiencies in their business operations. That was a key theme at the Spring 2018 Index AR Retreat for Utilities, an intimate ... Read more
Index AR Solutions and Westar Energy® Speak at NERC/NATF Conference
May 23, 2018
Williamsburg, Va. – Dan Arczynski, President and CEO at Index AR Solutions and Dave Claussen, Executive Director of Systems Maintenance at Westar Energy, Inc. spoke to 400 attendees of the seventh annual Human Performance Conference hosted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and the North American Transmission Forum (NATF). The conference, held ... Read more
Index AR Solutions Partners with Westar Energy® to Launch LineAssist SuperApp®, Using Augmented Reality to Make Work Safer and Faster
May 21, 2018
Premiere Offering in Library of Index AR Applications Helps Electrical Utility Linemen Visualize Complex Maintenance Tasks Williamsburg, Va. – Index AR Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) applications, announced today it has partnered with Westar Energy, Inc. (NYSE: WR) to launch LineAssist, a highly visual mobile training and field application that helps ... Read more
Index AR Solutions Introduces New Solutions for Electrical Utilities at EPRI Augmented Reality Workshop
May 16, 2018
A number of powerful Index AR Solutions offerings were introduced to augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) thought leaders from utilities and other companies from around the world at the recent Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Augmented Reality for Leading Edge Utilities workshop in Mountain View, Calif. The conference, held April 24-25, 2018, ... Read more
Demonstrating the Power of AR at the DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition
April 24, 2018
In late January, representatives from Index AR Solutions attended DistribuTECH 2018, the utility industry’s leading transmission and distribution conference and exhibition. Scott Sommers, Vice President of Client and Corporate Development, and John Arczynski, Director of Operations, joined industry thought leaders from all over the world to network, share knowledge and problem solve with worldwide ... Read more
The Next Wave: Augmented Reality as a Tool in the Lineman’s Toolbox
April 7, 2018
In the April issue of T&D World Magazine, Rich Maxwell penned an article on the state of transmission and distribution apps where he highlighted the wide variety of mobile apps that are popping up in support of a growing assortment of electric utility field use cases. Maxwell noted that collectively, these powerful apps are ... Read more
Westar Energy Showcases the Benefits of Index AR Solutions at NERC’s 2018 Human Performance Conference
March 30, 2018
Augmented Reality (AR) was a major topic of discussion at the 2018 Human Performance Conference hosted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The group’s seventh annual conference and workshops took place March 27-29 in Atlanta, Georgia. One of the featured speakers at the conference was Dave Claussen, Senior Director of Substation Construction ... Read more
Dexter Lilley Demonstrates Why Augmented Reality is Ready Now on HxGN RADIO Podcast
March 12, 2018
Augmented reality (AR), the overlay of digital information on the real world, is ready now to make significant improvements to safety, quality, cost and schedule in the construction, manufacturing, and mining spaces. Dexter Lilley, Executive Vice President and COO of Index AR Solutions, demonstrated just how ready the technology is when he highlighted ... Read more
Index AR 2017 Fall Retreat Highlights: Making Workers Safer, Faster and Smarter Now
January 5, 2018
Troubleshooting and replacing thousands of routers and modems. Overcoming a voltage regulator maintenance challenge. Helping teach construction crew trainees how to face various scenarios they’ll see in the field. Augmented Reality (AR) – specifically Index AR Solutions’ approach and delivery of AR – is helping industries address those issues and more. At an invitation-only ... Read more
O’Reilly Author on Augmenting Industrial Reality and Bigger Things to Come
May 17, 2017
Author Leah Hunter writes about the human side of technology for Fast Company and other leading publications. In her recently published book “Augmented Reality for the Industrial Enterprise,” Hunter described how integration tools and vision systems are two major developments pushing augmented reality (AR) forward in the enterprise, paving the way for even greater ... Read more
Seeking Alpha Says Index AR is Disrupting the Industrial Augmented Reality Market
May 8, 2017
The enterprise industrial space is proving to be one of the first areas where augmented reality (AR) is showing adoption and business benefit, particularly around worker productivity. And this is in Index AR’s wheelhouse. In a piece for the investment research platform Seeking Alpha, writer Derrick Zierler wrote that “Index AR Solutions has been ... Read more
Christopher A. Biernacki Joins the Index AR Solutions Team
April 13, 2017
Williamsburg, Virginia – Index AR Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise augmented reality applications for industry, today announced that Christopher A. Biernacki has joined the company as Manager, Operations. Biernacki brings experience from the shipbuilding and commercial nuclear sectors to Index. He will join the operations team led by Dexter Lilley, EVP and COO ... Read more