Honeywell Voice Technology Wins U.S. Government Maintenance Technology Competition
TOKYO, June 29, 2016 -- Honeywell's Vocollect Maintenance and Inspection Solution recently won the 2016 Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities (CTMA) Technology Competition, which was sponsored by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Maintenance.
The competition was designed to introduce new technologies to the U.S.
Department of Defense in an effort to sustain material readiness at reduced
costs.
The Vocollect Maintenance and Inspection Solution (M&I) comprises
voice-directed work technology for inspection technicians. Rather than
recording findings on paper and manually entering them into a database, the
interaction between technicians and the system is carried out by voice
while the system is updated automatically. With a voice-directed,
hands-free and eyes-free inspection process, workers eliminate skipped
steps, make fewer errors, are more productive and have higher job
satisfaction. The voice-directed solution eliminates the post-inspection
manual data entry process and facilitates compliance with various
inspection processes.
Honeywell's technology received the award for its ability to be easily
adopted into current standard operating procedures. During the finalist
presentations, the Honeywell team described a future where voice M&I can be
adopted for field inspections on military equipment such as deployed naval
vessels.
Lufthansa Technik AG is currently using the Honeywell technology for
civil aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul and modification services. The
solution helped reduce or eliminate many tedious written documentation
tasks, which would typically account for nearly 50 percent of a
technician's working shift. In addition, Honeywell implemented the voice
technology for its own aircraft engine maintenance, repair and overhaul
operations.
In April, the Vocollect M&I Solution was included in a group of six
finalists. As a panelist at the CTMA annual partners and integrated
projects meeting, Matthew Nichols, product
marketing manager, Honeywell Sensing and Productivity Solutions, presented
the Vocollect Maintenance & Inspection Solution.
The theme for the May 12 competition,
which took place at the Lockheed Martin Center for Innovation in Suffolk, Virginia, was "Streamlined
Innovation."
The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, the largest cross industry collaborative Research & Development consortium in North America, is dedicated to driving innovation in commercial, defense, robotics and environmentally sustainable manufacturing.
Media Contact:
Machiko
Mochizuki
Sensing & Productivity Solutions
Honeywell
Japan Inc.
Phone: 81-3-6730-7344
Mail: HSMJapanInquiry@honeywell.com
Web: www.vocollect.jp
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