Executive Summary
Though we spend ample time examining consumer-based AR endpoints, greater near-term impact is seen today in the enterprise.
This takes many forms including data visualization in corporate settings, or software to create customer-facing AR experiences for brands. But the greatest area of enterprise AR impact today is realized in industrial settings.
These use cases include AR visualization to support assembly and maintenance in manufacturing contexts. The idea is that AR’s line-of-sight orientation can guide front-line workers. Compared to the “mental mapping” they must do with 2D instructions, line-of-sight support makes them more effective.
This effectiveness results from AR-guided speed, accuracy, and safety. These micro efficiencies add up to worthwhile bottom-line impact when implemented at scale in industrial operations. Macro benefits meanwhile include lessening job strain and the “skills gap,” which can lead to preserving institutional knowledge.
For example, AR leader PTC reports up to 40 percent improvements in new employee productivity, 30 percent greater first-time fix rates, 50 percent reductions in training costs, and 25 percent reductions in materials scrap.
But it’s not all good news. Though all these advantages are valid, it’s challenging to get to the point of realizing them. Practical and logistical barriers loom, including organizational inertia, politics, change management and fear of new technology among front-line workers.
The biggest symptom of these stumbling blocks is the dreaded “pilot purgatory.” As its name suggests, this is when AR is adopted at the pilot stage, but never progresses to full deployment. It’s one of the biggest barriers and pain points in enterprise AR today.
ARtillery Intelligence has identified sources and solution areas for pilot purgatory as the “3 Ps.” Comprising people, product, and process, they’re the top areas where effective AR implementation strategies should focus.
With that backdrop, we continue the narrative in this report on enterprise AR, including new ARtillery Intelligence market sizing data. Moreover, we devote the bulk of this report to “show rather than tell.” We’ll do this through case studies that demonstrate enterprise AR’s ROI potential and best practices.
To adequately represent these factors, we’ve reached out to leading enterprise AR players to collect their top case studies. We’ve then relayed these through our own lens and analytical rigor. We’ve prioritized case studies that have quantifiable results, actionable takeaways, and a variety of business verticals.
The goal in all the above is to reveal the why and how of enterprise AR. Through the lens of industry best practices, why should enterprises invest in AR? And how should it be optimally implemented? The name of the game is to set up enterprise AR to succeed by deploying it from a place of confidence and knowledge.
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MethodologyThis report highlights ARtillery Intelligence’s viewpoints, gathered from its daily in-depth coverage of spatial computing. To support the narrative, data are cited throughout the report. These include ARtillery Intelligence’s original data, as well as that of third parties. Data sources are attributed in each case.
For market sizing and forecasting, ARtillery Intelligence follows disciplined best practices, developed and reinforced through its principles’ 15 years in tech sector research and intelligence. This includes the past 4 years covering AR & VR exclusively, as seen in research reports and daily reporting.
Furthermore, devising these figures involves the “bottom-up” market-sizing methodology, which involves granular ad revenue dynamics such as campaign pricing and spending. More about ARtillery Intelligence methodology can be seen here, and market-sizing credentials can be seen here.
Disclosure & Ethics StatementUnless specified in its stock ownership disclosures, ARtillery Intelligence has no financial stake in the companies mentioned in its reports. The production of this report likewise wasn’t commissioned. With all market sizing, ARtillery Intelligence remains independent of players and practitioners in the sectors it covers, thus mitigating bias in industry revenue calculations and projections. ARtillery Intelligence’s disclosures, stock ownership and ethics policy can be seen in full here.
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