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Source: Drishti Source: Drishti Source: Drishti

“Within a few minutes of viewing “Drishti’s technology perfectly “HELLA’s success with Drishti is in
the video footage from Drishti, our complements our goal of achie- line with what we’re seeing across
team had ideas to reconfigure ving operational excellence by the automotive industry, as well as
the station to make it more com- augmenting our extremely capab- in other verticals like electronics
fortable for the line associates, le workforce and empowering and medical devices. The future of
thereby shortening every cycle them with the tools they need to automated video analysis, which
time. And most importantly, our perform their jobs even better.” creates insights on people at work,
line associates are healthier, hap- runs through Drishti.”
pier, and more productive.” Huri Mendoza Gary Jackson
Head of Operational Excellence
Ram Singh Khangarote HELLA CEO
Operational Excellence and Drishti
Operation Product Manager
HELLA Dhankot

our Guanajuato, Mexico plant. translate video streams into data, in other verticals like electronics
Drishti Now we’re seeing value in Dhan- a technique called action recogni- and medical devices. The future
streams
video at ev- kot as well,” said Huri Mendoza, tion. The line-level data on cycles of automated video analysis,
ery station Head of Operational Excellence, and actions helps manufacturers which creates insights on people
on a line, HELLA. “Drishti’s technology per- improve productivity and quali- at work, runs through Drishti.”
then uses fectly complements our goal of ty while improving standardized
proprietary achieving operational excellence work adherence.
AI networks Issues revealed with
to trans- by augmenting our extremely “Drishti’s action recognition tech- Drishti cameras and
late video capable workforce and empower- nology provides manufacturers streaming video analysis
streams ing them with the tools they need with a clear competitive edge, as
into data, a to perform their jobs even better.” they can see improvement oppor- • The massive volume of cycle
technique The Dhankot plant deployment tunities on assembly lines that time data available from
called action Drishti quickly revealed
recognition. is one of several ongoing collab- are otherwise hidden,” said Gary
orations between HELLA and Jackson, CEO, Drishti. “HELLA’s slowdowns in stations.
Drishti. Drishti streams video success with Drishti is in line • The video footage showed
at every station on a line, then with what we’re seeing across the that the physical station
uses proprietary AI networks to automotive industry, as well as configuration was slowing
down the line associates.
• The station setup was causing
ergonomic concerns too.
Problem resolved
• The HELLA team at Dhankot
then reconfigured the station
to make it more comfortable
for the line associates,
shortening every cycle time.
• They were able to improve
line balancing.
Source: Drishti • The Drishti investment paid for
itself in less than six months.

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