Artificial intelligence passes on skills at the workplace | Machine learning & AI - Tech Xplore

How can the knowledge and skills of an experienced employee be effortlessly passed on to new employees? 

The application gives instructions of the worksteps, detects mistakes and shows the correct workflow.

Researchers at Aalto University have tackled this problem that many industrial companies have experienced by developing a toolchain based on artificial intelligence and computer vision. It would automatically create training materials such as instructional video and augmented reality (AR) based real-time assistance applications. 

Many industrial companies have started to make video recordings of their employees' executing assembly or maintenance processes. When given such a video, the toolchain can automatically extract workflow information, including the sequence of work steps and the operations in each step. The employees can review the workflow before it gets converted into an instructional video or AR application.

"We estimate that this tool will make it possible to save 7-10 times the amount of time that it would take if employees had to label the video and create an AR-based assembly or maintenance assistance application manually. An experienced employee only has to check that the instructions created by the system are correct," says the head of the research, Yu Xiao, professor of electrical engineering at Aalto University...

Saving time and money in the training of employees
The tool has been developed over the last year and a half with funding from Business Finland for the commercialization of the research, and companies will soon begin piloting it. Taking part in the steering group of the project are three mechanical engineering companies that have drawn attention to the needs of users.
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