OpGuide | Devpost

Team: FreeMine Inc. Team Members: Chris Smith Eric Suedmeier Anurag Chitnis Zachary Eisenhauer Zachary Langley

Project: When our team first arrived at HackDFW’s Buildathon hosted in Freeman Inc.’s warehouse. We sought to gain insight on how Freeman Inc. operates and where our services would be most beneficial. We gathered a lot of information on the inner workings of Freeman Inc and the consistent problem across all departments was communication, especially in the assembly stage of the job at the exposition itself. The issue with assembly at the exposition was sorting all of the items and correcting mistakes took most of the worker’s time. What does an employee do if they are looking for part #32 and it is already embedded in the booth? The employee wastes company dollars due to a lack of communication. We committed to designing and implementing a system to make sure that all employees are on the same page during the assembly process. The system known as “OpGuide” or “Operations Guide”, incorporates Freeman’s investment in the future of augmented reality with the Moverio BT-300 Smart Glasses. “OpGuide” shall allow an employee to scan the booth area with their headset and see which parts are not assembled, which parts are in route, and which parts are already installed. “OpGuide” removes the need to sort items and instead automatically gives out tasks to employees that relate to the current booths needing assembly. Each Employee with an augmented reality headset shall be able to scan QR Codes located in the booth’s area and be assigned a task if not already assigned one. They QR Codes transmit data to the headset, telling the employee where the part assigned to them is located and update the inventory dynamically, when the item is installed or delivered to the booth location. “OpGuide” seeks to guide employees through an efficient process and decide which part of the booth to construct. Then, “OpGuide” will update all employees and inventory on the progress of all booths construction in real time. What about an exposition without internet or if the internet is out during the time of construction? “OpGuide” does not require an outside network to store inventory and tasks. For our solution, we used a Raspberry Pi 2 to demonstrate the efficiency of a everyone interfacing with the same computer at any exposition can help employees communicate and be given the correct direction at all times. Our solution will not only reduce the amount of manpower needed for assembly at the expo Freeman Inc is contracted for, but also increase efficiency to complete the contract in an efficient manner. “OpGuide” designed with efficiency in mind.