LightGuide 25.3: Augmented Intelligence Built for Enterprise Scale
Establish AI Readiness. Unlock Deeper Connectivity.
LightGuide 25.3 takes augmented intelligence to the next level with AI-powered workflow analysis, an enterprise-ready data architecture that centralizes and expands visibility into system performance, and a formal SDK and OPC UA connector that enhances interoperability with enterprise systems for connected, AI-ready operations.
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Author Like a Pro
Build and manage complex workflows with greater efficiency, consistency, and control. 25.3 elevates the authoring experience with tools that streamline development, strengthen workflow structure, and surface meaningful process insights.
LightGuide Copilot: AI-Powered Workflow Analysis
Introducing LightGuide Copilot, an AI-enabled assistant designed to deliver intelligent guidance and insights across the LightGuide platform. Its first capability, workflow analysis, embeds years of field-tested best practices into the platform to help you create high-quality work instructions that support operators, improve execution, and generate clean, reliable data for AI analysis.
- Analyze and error proof workflows: Identify issues and get practical tips for improving workflows.
- Improve data integrity and AI readiness: Ensure every workflow produces clean data for reliable AI insights.
- Enforce standardization at scale: Enforce consistent workflow structure and best practices globally.
Dynamic Tracking: Intelligent Guidance for Moving Workspaces
Dynamic Tracking is now easier than ever to configure, transforming an expert-level feature into an intuitive, point-and-click setup process. Using built-in camera algorithms, teams can quickly link graphics to parts and have guidance intelligently follow components as they move and rotate—ensuring visual guidance is always where it needs to be.
- Easily configure dynamic tracking: Set it up quickly with minimal expertise using a streamlined configuration process.
- Create responsive work instructions: Automatically align graphics with moving parts—ideal for AGVs, conveyors, and mobile work surfaces.
- Enhance workflow resiliency: Quickly restore guidance after camera or projector changes using Excalibrator’s guided process.
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Enhanced Authoring Features for Greater Control and Efficiency
25.3 enhances the authoring experience with tools that reduce development time, improve workflow organization, and reveal meaningful process insights. An enhanced code view, live variable monitoring, and min–max step time ranges give authors greater control, clarity, and efficiency throughout the workflow creation process.
- Enhanced code view: Collapse steps for easier navigation and maintain a clear, organized structure in complex workflows.
- Variables window live mode: Toggle between live mode and edit mode to view real-time variable values while authoring workflows.
- Min–max step time ranges: Configure a range for step time completion to gain deeper insights into process integrity and operator performance.
Turn Data Into Decisions with AI-Ready Analytics
Enterprise-Ready Production Data Architecture
From frontline execution to enterprise intelligence, LightGuide’s hybrid data architecture synchronizes local production data to cloud-hosted infrastructure. By enabling ETL workflows and efficient data migration to enterprise data lakes, it lays the foundation for global reporting and AI analysis without compromising responsiveness on the production line.
- Local performance, global intelligence: Responsive on the production line, fully optimized for big data utilization.
- Seamless data migration: Support ETL operations for smooth integration with enterprise data lakes.
- AI-ready data: Make data accessible to external AI tools and global business intelligence dashboards.
- Streamline fleet management: Systems now report on health status, license information, software versions, and other useful data to help you manage your global fleet.
Integrate with Ease
LightGuide 25.3 takes enterprise interoperability to the next level with a formal Software Development Kit (SDK) and OPC UA connector, enabling seamless integration with MES, SCADA, IIoT, PLCs, industrial equipment, and AI platforms. Designed for modern industrial environments, these tools build the foundation for connected, AI-ready operations with minimal code.
OPC UA: Enterprise Connectivity Engineered with Siemens
Developed in collaboration with Siemens, our OPC UA connector provides a robust and widely adopted machine-to-machine communication protocol for industrial automation. As a core enabler of Industry 4.0 and IIoT, OPC UA provides discoverable inputs and outputs for seamless integration with enterprise systems, transforming LightGuide into a true enterprise appliance that plugs directly into your existing industrial infrastructure.
- Seamless integration: Connect LightGuide to your existing infrastructure as a standard industrial appliance.
- Universally compatible: Standardized, platform-independent communication across enterprise systems.
- Secure data exchange: Reliable, encrypted communication across devices and systems.
Software Development Kit: Extend, Customize, and Integrate with Minimal Coding Experience
LightGuide’s Software Development Kit (SDK) opens the platform to deeper customization and interoperability. Designed for engineering and IT teams without extensive coding experience, the SDK makes it easy to extend platform capabilities with custom integrations and logic for workflow automation.
- Extend platform capabilities: Unlock advanced functionality and adapt LightGuide to your exact use case with minimal coding.
- Build logic visually: Use Node-RED to implement logic, run programs, and set variables through an intuitive visual interface—no coding required.
- Easily create custom code: Use Python and JavaScript API wrappers to feed requirements to LLMs and quickly generate custom code.
Deploy with Confidence
From precise calibration to intelligent component tracking, LightGuide 25.3 introduces new capabilities that keep visual guidance accurate, resilient, and consistent over time.
Multi-Pattern MatchTemplate: Intelligent Vision for Complex Operations
LightGuide’s new Multi-Pattern Match tool brings advanced vision intelligence to a wider range of hardware configurations, enabling the system to detect, classify, and distinguish between numerous components with exceptional reliability. The system can now:
- Recognize multiple components using a single tool
- Track components even when partially occluded
- Maintain guidance accuracy even as components evolve throughout the process
Excalibrator: Precise Calibration for Advanced Guidance
With Excalibrator, setting up projectors and cameras can be done in minutes using a single, easy-to-use tool. New enhancements in 25.3 make calibration more robust, enabling technicians to deploy and service systems with ease.
- Custom crosshairs: Enhanced visual alignment tools for precise calibration that’s foundational for dynamic tracking.
- Annotation fields: Add crucial context for future servicing, making maintenance fast and consistent.
