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Scale Server Manufacturing and Data Center Operations with AR Work Instructions

 

From server assembly and installation to break fix, LightGuide ensures accuracy and efficiency across the entire data center hardware lifecycle.

 

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AR-Guided Precision in Server Manufacturing, Installation, and Break Fix

LightGuide’s augmented reality (AR) work instructions drive standardization, efficiency, and quality by giving technicians precise, real-time visual guidance for complex processes. Using projected AR, AI-powered machine vision, sensors, and smart tools, LightGuide ensures accuracy at every step—reducing errors, improving throughput, and driving consistency across data center operations. From server assembly and installation to maintenance and break fix, organizations can optimize the entire hardware lifecycle with confidence.

Streamline High-Variation Processes

Standardize and streamline high-variation processes with dynamic workflows that adapt to different product configurations.

Eliminate Defects and Improve Quality

Prevent errors before they happen with real-time visual guidance and built-in quality checks.

Increase Efficiency and Throughput

Improve cycle times and increase throughput with standardized workflows and step-by-step visual guidance.

Optimize Data Center Maintenance

Maintain critical infrastructure with digital work instructions for server maintenance and data center break fix operations.

Accelerate Training

Onboard and upskill employees faster with interactive AR training that reduces the learning curve and boosts productivity.

Capture Data for Enhanced Traceability

Gain full digital traceability by tracking, logging, and analyzing every step of a manual process.

AR Guidance and Machine Vision Ensure Accuracy in Rack Server Assembly

Watch how LightGuide brings precision and efficiency to server manufacturing with projected augmented reality (AR) work instructions. In this video, a technician performs a rack server assembly operation guided step by step with AR overlays projected directly onto the device, while AI-powered machine vision and 3D sensors verify each action in real time.

Server Manufacturing Guided by AR

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Error-Proof Server Installation and Cabling with AR

See how LightGuide simplifies server installation and cable routing with AR-guided work instructions and machine vision verification. From illuminating the correct rack bay for server placement to projecting step-by-step cable routing paths, LightGuide ensures every installation is accurate the first time. Real-time error detection, hands-free barcode scanning, and data capture for traceability eliminate mistakes, reduce downtime, and accelerate deployment across the data center.

Server Installation and Cabling Guided by AR

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Using AR to Guide Data Center Cabling Operations

See how LightGuide simplifies data center cable management with AR-guided work instructions and machine vision verification. Technicians scan each cable hands-free and follow step-by-step overlays that highlight the correct port and routing path. Real-time error detection ensures every connection is accurate, while performance data capture supports traceability, compliance, and continuous improvement—reducing downtime and accelerating deployment at scale.

AR-Guided Data Center Cabling

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Using AR to Guide Break Fix Operations for Rack Servers

See how LightGuide streamlines data center break fix operations with AR-guided work instructions and machine vision verification. Technicians can instantly load the correct repair sequence, follow step-by-step overlays, and rely on real-time error detection to ensure accuracy. With guided parts picking and performance data capture, LightGuide improves repair quality, accelerates server break fix, and drives efficiency across maintenance workflows.

AR-Guided Server Break Fix Operations

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LightGuide AR Delivers Proven Results

  • 90%+ Quality Improvement
  • 70%+ Training Efficiency
  • 50%+ Productivity Increase

Your Guide to AR Applications on the Factory Floor

 

Not all types of augmented reality are created equal. Use this guide to discover which type of industrial AR is best suited for your factory application, learn from real-world case studies, and more.

 

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Leading Manufacturers Have Dramatically Improved Their Processes. So Can You.

Aerospace & Defense Electronics Manufacturer Eliminates Defects

After implementing LightGuide AR work instructions on a line with 17 variants, L3Harris eliminated defects and changeover per variant.

Tech Company Transforms Electronics Repair Processes with AR

Using projected AR, this company reduced complexity and standardized repair processes by digitizing workflows and providing technicians with precise visual guidance.

AR Work Instructions for Efficient & Error-free Electronics Assembly

From circuit boards to laptops to 5G wireless transmitters, AR work instructions visualize and error-proof manual workflows to provide operators with real-time guidance and confirmation for defect prevention.

Testimonials

"[LightGuide] puts work instructions exactly where you build your product, so you’re reducing time looking at printed instructions by putting the focus exactly where operators’ attention should be."
Brandon Taylor, Senior Process and Manufacturing Engineer, Lightning eMotors

Let Us Design a Solution for Your Most Challenging Application

Ready to put the power of projected AR to work for you? Our proven platform, deployed across 200+ customers, can deliver predictable results for your most complex manual processes.

Enterprise Ready

LightGuide is enterprise-ready, easily interfaced to common cloud platforms for custom dashboards and analytics.

Easily Customized

Low-code and easily configured, customized, and programmed by your team.

Real-time Analytics

LightGuide captures key metrics, storing pictures and videos, and provides a “digital birth certificate” for every part produced.

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