Augmentir has launched an Augmented Reality (AR) feature for frontline workers in manufacturing. The new AR extension builds on the company’s AI platform and agentic AI capabilities. It is designed to provide smarter ways to onboard, upskill, and support connected workers across industrial environments.

In 2020, Pennsylvania-based Augmentir prototyped a set of mobile tools. The new extension builds on experience gained with the prototyped mobile tool set.

The new AR feature is designed to accelerate onboarding and training by immersing workers in real equipment and processes. It also provides just-in-time support for complex or infrequent tasks.

“Industrial AR has seen many false starts, where vendors mistakenly positioned it as the primary tool for work execution or as a stand-alone product,” said Russ Fadel, CEO and Co-Founder of Augmentir. “In reality, AR delivers its greatest impact in training, onboarding, and initial task execution. With Augmentir AR, we’re building on our AI-native foundation to dynamically deliver immersive guidance where and when it adds the most value—without burdening workers once they’ve mastered a task. This new AR capability extends that value, supporting workers from their first day on the job through their entire career.”

Augmentir users include Colgate-Palmolive, Graphic Packaging, Hunter Industries, Mondelez, Armstrong World Industries, Muller Group, and AkzoNobel. Through the Augie Industrial GenAI Suite, manufacturers can transform existing content, such as training videos, existing SOPs, checklists, and work instructions, into step-by-step, interactive procedures that become digital smart twins of the existing content.

Augmentir’s AI Agent Studio is a no-code environment that allows manufacturers to design and deploy custom AI agents to support for tasks such as training, troubleshooting, and workflow optimization.

According to the company, benefits have included: an 82% reduction in new hire onboarding time; a 37% improvement in worker productivity; 27% decrease in equipment downtime; 24% reduction in quality issues; and a 21% reduction in safety incidents.