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Ortho, the First Voice Assistant Purpose-Built for Auto Repair Professionals, Launches at AAPEX 2022
Ortho delivers technicians specs in seconds in an intuitive, portable, hands-free solution ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Ortho, the First Voice Assistant Purpose-Built for Auto Repair Professionals, Launches at AAPEX 2022Ortho delivers technicians specs in seconds in an intuitive, portable, hands-free solutionLas Vegas, NV - (NewMediaWire) - November 01, 2022 - Today at the 2022 Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) RAIN Technology Inc. announced the public launch of “Ortho,” the first-ever voice assistant purpose-built to drive efficiency in auto repair. After 18 months of development and co-creation alongside forward-thinking shop owners and technicians, Ortho has been piloted in more than a dozen shops across the US & Canada in recent months. On average, technicians using Ortho estimate saving as much as two hours a week across a wide range of repair and maintenance procedures.  Powered by MOTOR’s OEM database and housed inside a ruggedized tablet, Ortho offers a hands-free, lightning-fast data lookup experience, delivering concise and accurate answers in just seconds. Simply by saying “Hey Ortho” and asking a question, users get instant access to hundreds of specs (e.g., torques, measurements), fluid details (e.g., capacities, types), diagrams (e.g., mounting points), and maintenance intervals, all specific to the vehicle being worked on. Vehicles can be loaded easily by leveraging select shop management system integrations, scanning a VIN, or manually selecting Year Make Model.“We built Ortho with a laser focus on saving meaningful time in the shop, tapping into voice technology’s inherent advantages - speed of input, hands-free use, and a distraction-free interface,” said Nithya Thadani, CEO of RAIN Technology, Inc., the parent company of Ortho and a renowned voice technology innovator. “With an aging fleet of vehicles on the road and an enduring technician shortage, auto repair pros are some of the most in-demand professionals in any industry - they deserve well-designed, tech-forward solutions to maximize their productivity on the job.” Extracting information from traditional repair databases can take many minutes, even if a technician is looking for a single datapoint; it requires setting down tools, walking across the shop to a computer terminal, cleaning hands, typing a search query, and scanning results pages to find the data in question. In...