Assistance Systems in Textile Production

Using the simple formula “assistant + data glasses = skilled worker”, a German news magazine described possible effects on work and assistance systems in Industrie 4.0, quoting one manager as follows: “With data glasses, a new worker can achieve the same results after a short briefing as another employee with many years of experience” and “When Amazon hires 800 new people for the Christmas business, they won’t need 20 trainers in the future, but can put on the Smartglass and get started immediately” [NN14].