Microsoft

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023)

Furthered sustainability goals. Sustainability improvements and cost savings reduce training material waste and emissions associated with travel.
Improved quality with enhanced employee experience. Holographic work instruction through Dynamics 365 Guides accessible via HoloLens 2 improves employees’ productivity with 3D, step-by-step, holographic step cards that reduce errors, increase efficiency, ensure that procedure is followed safely, and overall improve the quality of work.
Attract, hire, and retain higher-quality employees. Leveraging HoloLens 2 and Dynamics 365 Guides and Remote Assist helps differentiate a company recruitment strategy by using the latest and greatest technology, leading to cost saving in acquiring and retaining highly talented employees.
Protected health and safety. According to interviewees, MR instructions helped employees get through repetitive tasks more quickly — and could protect life and health. Not following procedures exactly as intended could lead to dangerous scenarios in a manufacturing context. HoloLens 2 with Guides enabled technicians to follow instructions that provided guidance and training while doing their work, ensuring procedures are followed safely.
Improved compliance. Process guides helped technicians using HoloLens 2 follow the steps properly, helping meet compliance standards.

Travel to provide assistance in solving complex problems that on-site teams could not fix.
Training technicians to complete complex tasks and repairs.
Training processes were only documented in Excel with static pictures.

Enable expert technicians to remotely assist on-site workers with complex tasks.
Create guides that technicians can use to solve problems and complete repairs that they would not have been able to otherwise.
Enable the user to receive hands-free instruction and is intuitive and reliable to use on the manufacturing line for extended periods of time.

Climate Change Data