AHRENSBURG, GERMANY — Mühlenchemie is offering customer support with Smart Glasses, which allow for online demonstrations and training, joint trials and analyses and remote communication in real time.

Starting this year, customers can acquire fully configured MC Connect Glasses, which are worn on the head and have a camera facing forward and a small screen in front of the wearer’s eye. They are used like a tablet or smartphone to communicate with another person by video call.

Everyone on the call sees the same thing, as if they were there in person. The user’s hands are free, to do baking trials or operate devices during a session.

With this technology, flour expert Mühlenchemie is taking another step toward digital customer support. The company already offers digital services such as remote workshops, last year’s Digital Millers’ Conference, and the online navigator that helps select the right product.

“In flour treatment it’s more and more about fast decisions,” said Peter Steiner, global head of business unit at Mühlenchemie. “These can now be made better with the assistance of experts who might be a thousand kilometres away.”

Applications technologists at the Stern-Technology Center in Ahrensburg analyze wheat and flour samples from around the globe. In this 3,000-square-meter facility the company can simulate processes in baking, pasta and wafer labs, and test the effects of enzymes and other substances for each specific type of grain or flour.

“We can replicate all manufacturing steps, from the individual grain to the finished baked product or dried pasta, using the latest technology,” Steiner said.

The result is individual solutions that can be applied 1:1 in actual production.

With MC Connect Glasses, the company’s flour treatment specialists can now let customers be present at trials and analyses in real time as if they were there, regardless of their actual location.  Decisions can be made together with all involved. Furthermore, customers can join lab tours, seminars and online presentations live and follow the experts using MC Connect Glasses. Customers do not need their own smart glasses in order to use the new digital service and participate in online offerings, like demonstrations and workshops.

In 2022, Mühlenchemie customers will be able to acquire their own MC Connect Glasses, so they can make use of expanded live support. If a customer has a technical issue, they can contact Mühlenchemie specialists by means of MC Connect Glasses and take them into the mill with the same field of view. The people at Mühlenchemie can provide guidance live, and also send information for viewing on the …….

Source: https://www.world-grain.com/articles/16334-muhlenchemie-offers-smart-glasses-for-training-trials