Across the country, construction jobs are being filled by less experienced workers than ever before. Our industry’s aging workforce is retiring, which leaves many new workers in a “trial by fire” situations, fumbling to troubleshoot with little training. A new artificial intelligence powered training solution may help solve some of training problems.
Created in 2018, DeepHow creates indexed, searchable, and translatable how-to videos without the need for a camera crew. Through the use of an app, employers can film their most experienced workers in construction, service, or manufacturing and the AI in the background will break up those videos into searchable video clips, helping the less-experienced see what needs to be done, without calling the office, waiting for another employee to be free, or waiting on tech support to call them back.
People learn in many different ways and it’s common for those in construction to learn visually, which is why videos are a great training and learning tool. We’ve all seen install manuals that do an absolutely horrible job of explaining the process, with poorly drawn diagrams giving you only a partial glimpse of what you’re getting yourself into.
“Learning from videos has become the most preferred way of learning,” says Patrik Matos, Chief Product Officer of DeepHow, in a press release. “But traditional video production is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and not scalable for enterprises. Our DeepHow AI platform introduces a paradigm shift for technical training. It enables companies that rely on skilled labor the ability to rapidly create a usable, accessible knowledge library to learn effectively, improve safety, and increase productivity.”
Like most AI platforms, DeepHow has given their robotic assistant a name: Stephanie. Users can ask Stephanie to look up a part, show a process, or switch languages from English to Spanish.
Recently, STANLEY X, Stanley Black & Decker’s Innovation hub, formed a partnership with DeepHow to expand their training program for contractors, manufacturing, trade schools, and unions.
“There is a tremendous opportunity to help our customers minimize the disruption caused by employee turnover,” said Kevin Lemke, VP of Strategy for Stanley Black & Decker’s Innovation Group, in a press release. “DeepHow is the only AI knowledge transfer system for the skilled trades, and we view it as an integral part of the ecosystem we are beginning to build.”
To see more about how DeepHow works, check out the video below from Stanley Black & Decker:
source https://www.constructionjunkie.com/blog/2020/9/8/ai-based-training-app-creates-easy-how-to-videos-for-on-the-job-learning
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