3D Interactive Instructions for M4 Assembly, Maintenance, and Operation

The Air Force has complicated equipment and complex jobs, and experienced Airmen have utilized extensive on the job training to learn how to work this equipment and perform their jobs over time. These complicated new machines, how the equipment is used, and evolving job responsibilities require updated instructions to be communicated to Airmen in order to increase job effectiveness and lower the learning curve of increasingly sophisticated equipment. Unfortunately, Airmen are often stuck with paper instruction manuals which don’t always do an adequate job of communicating how to use the equipment or perform a specific task. The solution is the BILT app.                 Used by commercial clients like The Home Depot, Weber, Lifetime, Solo Stove, and ASSA ABLOY, BILT Incorporated provides cloud hosted 3D interactive intelligent instructions to improve training and maintenance efficiency. BILT aims to help Airmen decrease training time by 30%, improve quality on maintenance and assembly tasks by improving firs time touch by 5%, and modernize training by reducing dependency on paper and 2D PDFs by 30%. BILT accomplishes this by eliminating cumbersome manuals and lengthy and expensive instructional videos and replacing them with 3D interactive instructions that make sense to today’s Airmen. BILT could enable Air Force maintainers where they’re most comfortable and competent--on a mobile device, where they have the capability to tap on a part, pinch to zoom in and out, and drag to rotate the 3D images 360º.  BILT gathers data analytics on user performance.  Insights from these metrics allow BILT instruction designers to continuously improve procedures in near-real time. BILT provides a portal for Program Managers and front-line leaders to evaluate training progress and competency with quantifiable data and feedback from maintainers. BILT is available worldwide, both on and off the grid. Hundreds of 3D instruction sets can be downloaded to a single device and accessed without Wi-Fi, saving in-flight space, weight, and fuel. BILT addresses the DoD’s green initiative and assists Air Force sustainability efforts by eliminating paper manuals.