Catching More Wind: GE Acquires World’s Largest Turbine Blade Maker
Maggie Sieger
April 20, 2017
But AR is already making an impact. Economist Marco Annuziata and Margid Abraham, executive chairman of Upskill, cited in Harvard Business Review a Boeing study that found that “AR improved productivity in wiring harness assembly by 25 percent.” And recently at GE Healthcare, “a warehouse worker receiving a new picklist order through AR completed the task 46 percent faster than when using the standard process, which relies on a paper list and item searches on a work station,” they wrote. “Additional cases from GE and several other firms show an average productivity improvement of 32 percent.”