Smart workers for Smart factories
We create digital twins of your best workers and then the twins train all workers, including quality monitoring throughout a workday. We use our industrial smart gloves and no cameras to provide real-time feedback, analytics and scoring. We’re ideal for training, retraining, recurring skills testing and real-time workday feedback.
We create digital twins of your best workers and then the twins train all workers, including quality monitoring throughout a workday. We use our industrial smart gloves and no cameras to provide real-time feedback, analytics and scoring. We’re ideal for training, retraining, recurring skills testing and real-time workday feedback.
No-camera
IoT Sensor of Human Activity
We developed a novel IoT sensor for reading human activity without a camera. It features high privacy standards and provides 100% coverage with zero infrastructure costs. The sensor outputs real-time data using the customer’s language of work instructions. This data is translated by AI from hand motion. We designed industrial-quality data gloves to capture low-latency high-fidelity hand/finger motion.
This sensor links a worker to the factory knowledge base making every smart worker even smarter.
Our Vision
We empower human motion in cyberspace through an in-depth analysis of hand movements and interfacing them to machines. With our Mimetik glove, you can collect and visualize data and stream it to any program, robot, or system that you want to control by a hand movement.
Mimetik is a pioneer in creating high-tech smart-glove solutions for industrial applications and beyond. Founded as a spin-off from TU Dresden & integrated into the CeTI research cluster of excellence of Technische Universität Dresden, Mimetik has advanced the development of digitally identifying, tracking & documenting hand movements without the need for cameras. The sensor-based Mimetik glove captures movement data. Through our smart algorithms we can identify specific movements and will be able to teach best movement patterns to new users. We are convinced that the integration of digital hand movements is the gateway technology to the Metaverse implementation.
For Industry
We recognize that the industry is moving towards smart factories with huge investment in automation. While machines go digital, people are not. At the same time, 72% of operations in manufacturing are manual (kearney, 2023) and 40% of such operations are not feasible to be automated (McKinsey, 2017). The importance of a human on a shop floor has been recognized by Industry 5.0. This generation of industrial revolution sets an agile flexible human worker in the centre. The agility of production has proven to be a response to a post-pandemic economy. The companies can survive only by adapting to the bursts of consuming demand. The agility of a human is currently higher than of a robot that secures many workplaces. Mimetik aims to take the agility of a human worker to a new level. We aim to give workers a possibility to learn faster and more efficiently. We also assist people at work places and help to optimise their work environment.
Our services become possible with the novel Mimetik IoT sensor of human activity based on data gloves. It bridges a human to digital services at a factory. It provides a real-time link to the knowledge base of experts. The data of Mimetik IoT sensors sets a foundation of a human digital twin. It helps to collect best practices and store them as a commodity of a company. In this way, the company preserves the knowledge and enables easy sharing of the expertise across a factory and different production sites.
We recognize that the industry is moving towards smart factories with huge investment in automation. While machines go digital, people are not. At the same time, 72% of operations in manufacturing are manual (kearney, 2023) and 40% of such operations are not feasible to be automated (McKinsey, 2017). The importance of a human on a shop floor has been recognized by Industry 5.0. This generation of industrial revolution sets an agile flexible human worker in the centre. The agility of production has proven to be a response to a post-pandemic economy. The companies can survive only by adapting to the bursts of consuming demand. The agility of a human is currently higher than of a robot that secures many workplaces. Mimetik aims to take the agility of a human worker to a new level. We aim to give workers a possibility to learn faster and more efficiently. We also assist people at work places and help to optimise their work environment.
Our services become possible with the novel Mimetik IoT sensor of human activity based on data gloves. It bridges a human to digital services at a factory. It provides a real-time link to the knowledge base of experts. The data of Mimetik IoT sensors sets a foundation of a human digital twin. It helps to collect best practices and store them as a commodity of a company. In this way, the company preserves the knowledge and enables easy sharing of the expertise across a factory and different production sites.
Scale in-workplace training at front-line
Mimetik’s digital trainer lets to learn at own pace, with no stress, little human-trainer support and yet with high quality. Gloves evaluate the training progress. And, the trainee obtains instructions on a screen.
There are multiple correct ways to execute the same work instruction. It is not possible to convey this variety through the visual content in the training platform. But it is possible to capture the variety of correct ways with Mimetik data gloves. While the visual content is typically created with one actor, the experience of multiple workers is combined by Mimetik in one AI model. Hence, the trainee gets evaluated based on the experience of many people. The work steps of 5-30 seconds duration are evaluated in real-time. The trainee gets both training instructions and the feedback on the screen. At the end of training, both trainee and trainer use collected statistics to identify the work steps requiring more training iterations.
Minimize wastage with real-time detection of human mistakes
Mimetik notifies a worker anonymously of possible quality issues in real-time. Mimetik gloves give a buzz and light indication. The worker decides on action and reporting.
Every human, even most experienced workers, can make mistakes due to a temporary loss of concentration, worse health or mood. Working with a zero-error concept leads to stress and depression. At the same time, most workers would correct the mistakes if notified at the right time. Mimetik offers personal assistance for every worker that helps to pay attention in ambiguous situations. Mimetik AI verifies the match of the work steps to best practices of multiple experienced workers. When detecting a mismatch, the worker is notified just a few seconds later. Even without visual feedback, the worker understands the process requiring their attention since the notification arrives in real-time. Such detailed notifications are private information and are available to the worker only. The production manager can access statistics without a person’s identification.
Maximize value-adding time
Mimetik gloves automate time measurement of assembly process currently done by stop-watch. The production manager uses Big Data to optimize efficiency of workplaces.
REFA analysis is the standard in manufacturing for evaluation of workplace efficiency. The duration of every work step is measured in a pilot station using a stop-watch. The collected data allows us to optimise the workplace. This data also sets the rules for the duration of a production cycle. Even though being widely used, REFA analysis does not capture the diversity of following the same work instructions by different people. Mimetik gloves can collect such data over a long period of time with zero effort. It is sufficient to take on the gloves and Mimetik AI will detect the work steps automatically. REFA analysis is based on one or several best practices. Mimetik AI bases allow the detection of best practices of all workers.
Mimetik Efficiency Glove
For Developers
The Mimetik Developers Kit includes a pair of data gloves and software to interpret motion and connect the gloves with your applications.
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Tech Specs
High precision, low latency hand motion tracking combined with break-through design allowing for everyday use of data gloves.
Sensors
6 x 9-DOF IMUs per glove
Rechargeable Battery
8+ hours battery life span
LED Feedback
LEDs on the fingertips for light indication of movement
Tracking Precision
0.5º Orientation accuracy
0.35 m/s² Acceleration accuracy
WiFi
802.11n/ac standard
Sampling Frequency
100 Hz orientation update frequency
Hygiene Concept
Separable design with washable underlying glove
Glove Design
Robust against mechanical stress
Free finger motion
Partners and Collaborations
About Us
We are a team of passionate entrepreneurs and engineers carrying innovation into each cell of our product. An advisory board of professors from Centre of Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop at Technische Universität Dresden is shaping our product along with a cutting edge of research. At Mimetik, we believe that the right understanding and technological edge can lead companies towards a successful future.
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Software Developer (m/f/d)
Dresden, Germany
full-time
Working Student (m/f/d)
Dresden, Germany
part-time
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Efficiency
The Efficiency Glove is the base product within the Mimetik product family. The integrated core technology allows access to all process data involving human operations through comprehensive time and motion studies. With our plug&play solution, production managers can easily balance station workloads, identify bottlenecks, and reveal optimisation potential – leading to efficiency gains of more than 20%. It is easy to set up and integrate into existing data acquisition software.
Ergonomics
Topping up our core technology with altitude and weight sensors, the Ergonomics Glove can record and identify ergonomic positions when lifting an object. This makes it possible to tackle false posture that can cause serious and long-term health damage. By issuing tangible improvement instructions for each individual and also with regard to workplace design, this solution leads to a substantial reduction of occupational accidents and a safer and more healthy work environment.
Quality
In addition to the core technology, this Mimetik product features high-precision localization sensors. With this addon, the Quality Glove can detect an employee’s position and movement over time. This provides useful information regarding the areas covered as part of the work routine. Therefore, it is predestined for any maintenance applications and can reduce machine downtime caused by manual work by considerable 25%.
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