This is one of the more fascinating areas of the use of wearable computers in the manufacturing industry, as there is always the need to keep customers informed of their orders, especially for those products that are custom made. Consider the implications of wearable computers being able to give a customer the status on over 1,000 PCs being built to be rolled out through their retail locations. As any roll-out of new technology takes a high level of collaboration and synchronization across an enterprise, having the most critical information of all - when the systems will be ready for configuring and shipping to the 1,000 sites they have been built for - is critical. From a logistics standpoint the coordination of all the other systems, processes, support staffs and delivery services to get the 1,000 systems delivered and installed in 1,000 different store locations, for example, would only be possible with the level of immediate information captured, analyzed and delivered with wearable computers. In this context of major new systems rollout the use of wearable computers could spell the difference between meeting the deadlines for producing the systems in the first place, and most critically, making sure the delivery providers get enough notice to have their trucks at the manufacturing center to deliver the systems in time. The entire logistics process of creating these systems, coordinating with the transportation companies to get them delivered, and synchronizing with services companies to get them installed and up in running, is all made more accurate and efficient using wearable computers. The real-time access to information that wearable computers could provide throughout this major project workflow would spell the difference between deadlines being met or not and the systems being installed and up and running. This real-time data and analysis aspect of wearable computers also has the...
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