{"id":2178,"date":"2010-05-27T02:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T09:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Avatars-Ford\/ba-p\/334311"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:16:45","slug":"avatars-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/avatars-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatars @ Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Avatars assemble vehicles at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ford<\/A>?<BR \/><BR \/>Yes they do! Virtual vehicles, of course, and the avatars are called Jack and Jill.<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2010\/05\/Jack_CarAssembly_Virtual_Real_small.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1601\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2010\/05\/Jack_CarAssembly_Virtual_Real_small.jpg\" alt=\"Jack_CarAssembly_Virtual_Real_small\" width=\"406\" height=\"440\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>In a recent article for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/idg\/2010-05-24\/ford-assembly-line-optimized-by-gaming-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg Businessweek<\/A>, Nick Barber highlights the details of how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ford<\/A> uses virtual and augmented reality in combination with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/assembly_planning\/jack\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix Jack<\/A>. There are several reasons why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ford<\/A> invests in this area: They want to be sure that the vehicles can be assembled easily and safely as they are designed. Previously, this so called assembly feasibility was tested using physical prototypes at the plant just shortly before the start of production. Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ford<\/A> is able to validate the assembly virtually, two to three years earlier. This allows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ford<\/A> to adjust and optimize the assembly process, and if needed, influence the product design.<BR \/><BR \/>The results? Virtual feasibility tests enable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ford<\/A> to produce high quality cars with minimized effort and minimal risk of injury for the workers.<BR \/><BR \/>The article highlights an augmented reality system that combines Jack with motion tracking technology. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/assembly_planning\/jack\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Jack and Jill<\/A> can also work on their own.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CJOflFFvARc\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>On the Tecnomatix <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/assembly_planning\/jack\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Jack homepage<\/A> you can find detailed information about the Motion Capture Toolkit used by Ford.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avatars assemble vehicles at Ford?    Yes they do! Virtual vehicles, of course, and the avatars are called Jack and Jill.             In a recent article for Bloomberg Businessweek, Nick Barbe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}