This video presents Miller Electric's Augmented Arc, an augmented reality welding training system that overlays computer-generated welds onto real workpieces to deliver safe, cost-effective, and data-driven instruction across multiple processes and joint types.
📊 Quick Facts
| Type | Interview |
| Author | Alexandre GAIN |
| Published | April 1, 2026 |
| Source | Visit Source |
| Location(s) | ENDER and Sons Workshop |
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📝 Abstract
[Summary generated by AI] The author introduces Augmented Arc, an augmented reality (AR) welding training platform by Miller Electric, designed to improve novice instruction across trade schools, unions, and industry settings. The resources comprise a purpose-built welding helmet with an embedded camera and position sensors, a system computer, an integrated heads-up display and speakers, and a classroom display for instructors. Methods center on overlaying computer-generated weld arcs, pools, and beads onto real 3D workpieces, providing immediate, quantitative feedback as learners practice MIG, flux-cored, stick, and TIG processes across common joint types (including pipe) and in all positions. The system records video and telemetry, enabling instructors to replay sessions, evaluate technique, customize curricula, assign exercises, monitor progress remotely, and generate performance reports. Outcomes include safer, less intimidating early training, reduced consumable use (wire, gas, coupons), and improved engagement through realistic, in-situ simulation without the disorientation often associated with virtual reality. Deliverables are a scalable, classroom-deployable AR solution that increases throughput, fosters collaborative review, and prepares students more quickly for real-world welding by accelerating the acquisition of proper technique and process knowledge.