Augmented Reality

Blog post: 05/10/2026 3:21 pm

Author: Spark Team

Fire doors are one of the most visible examples of a safety-critical building asset that depends on repeated inspection, correct identification and consistent record keeping. A fire door may appear simple, but inspectors must consider multiple elements including closers, seals, glazing, hinges, gaps, damage and whether modifications have affected performance. For organisations managing large residential portfolios, the challenge is not simply knowing how to inspect a door. It is ensuring that the correct procedure is applied consistently across hundreds or thousands of individual assets. Bespoke VR and AR provide two complementary ways of strengthening these workflows.

Blog post: 05/10/2026 10:12 am

Author: Spark Team

Pressure vessels, pipework, compressors, steam systems and associated equipment are fundamental to chemical and petrochemical manufacturing. They also contain stored energy that must be understood and controlled before intrusive work begins. For operators and maintenance personnel, recognising pressure-system hazards is therefore not simply an engineering exercise. It is a core element of safe plant operation. VR can recreate pressure-related scenarios that would be difficult or inappropriate to reproduce physically, while AR can provide contextual information around live equipment.

Blog post: 02/10/2026 1:05 pm

Author: Spark Team

Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facilities combine waste handling with complex industrial processes involving combustion, steam generation, emissions-control equipment, electrical systems and process automation. That creates a substantial training challenge. Operators must understand both routine operating procedures and abnormal situations, but practising the latter directly on a live plant can be expensive, disruptive or impossible. Virtual Reality can provide a safe digital environment in which these procedures can be rehearsed repeatedly.

Blog post: 01/10/2026 12:40 pm

Author: Spark Team

Modern manufacturing depends on control systems that operators interact with every day but may only partially understand. PLCs, HMIs, sensors, drives and automated sequences can turn a factory into an enormously productive system, yet a wrong decision during a fault or changeover can still cause significant disruption. Virtual Reality can provide a safe environment for operators and technicians to practise control-system procedures before performing them in production. Augmented Reality can complement that training by displaying relevant instructions or system information beside the real equipment.

Blog post: 01/10/2026 8:32 am

Author: Spark Team

A modern spacecraft can contain thousands of components, interfaces, connectors, fasteners and inspection points. Manufacturing teams must translate engineering definitions into physical hardware while maintaining configuration control and traceability. Augmented Reality (AR) offers an increasingly compelling way to connect those two worlds. Rather than asking technicians to continually move between the spacecraft, drawings and workstation displays, AR can place selected digital information within the technician's view of the real assembly.