An inclusive, accessible and inspiring environment for people with disabilities

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At Dell Technologies, we believe that everyone has unique strengths and abilities to contribute in the workplace. We strive to create an inclusive, accessible and inspiring environment , and I am proud that our efforts were recently recognized with Gartner’s Power of the Profession™ People Breakthrough of the Year award.

The award celebrates a talent initiative we have implemented to foster diversity, develop transformational capabilities and create business value. We received this award in recognition of our Global Disability Inclusion Project , which creates and implements new assistance solutions to support people with disabilities across all of our factories. The project was pioneered in our Brazil factory, where 20% of the total manufacturing workforce are people with disabilities.

Through projects like this, we provide accessibility to our team members how to get usa phone number removing physical, social, cultural and systemic barriers, to ensure that people with disabilities have the same working conditions and opportunities as those without disabilities.

In collaboration with LEAD*, the following assistive technology solutions have been implemented in our Brazilian factory. We look forward to extending these technologies to our other factories around the world.

STEVE is an exoskeleton that functions like a motorized wheelchair, capable of driving users with lower limb disabilities to their workstation on an assembly line. Once in place, STEVE (the name of the machine) lifts and holds the user upright in a safe and comfortable position.
Augmented Reality Training Arcade is an augmented reality (AR) training platform for team members with hearing loss. Its main application is projected through AR glasses, helping to assemble hardware in a gamified way, and teaching our team members how to build complete devices.
Mobile Aware Intermodal Assistan t is an audio testing application used by team members with hearing loss. It converts sounds into images, transforming test sounds from laptop speakers into visual stimuli displayed on a screen.
In addition to these technologies, we improved accessibility at our factory in Brazil by implementing inclusion-oriented training and sign language courses , and added Braille to all factory signage.

Creating viable work solutions for team members with disabilities within the factory is a great example of how we are using technology to drive human progress . In partnership with LEAD, we hope to influence others to adopt similar best practices.

* LEAD is a partnership with Dell's Research, Development and Innovation Center and several educational institutions in the state of Ceará, Brazil, to create and implement assistive solutions for people with disabilities across the factory. The LEAD team is made up of multidisciplinary professionals who value diversity and inclusion and work on research and development of solutions in various fields. Throughout its history, LEAD has been involved in the research and development of technological solutions with the aim of contributing to the growth of society and aligns with Dell Technologies' purpose of promoting the potential of people through technology.