vReact - 3D | VR industrial training

Problem

Whether planned or unplanned, downtime is always too long. Additionally, as it is generally avoided, in real life there is no practicable way to provide sufficient, hands-on training to the crews for such situations.

Solution

vReact training, replicating the real life environment with high fidelity, allows access to effective training at any time, for how long it is necessary and individually needed, without even being on site.

With vReact it is now possible to train daily procedures/tasks to drive unplanned downtime to zero.

It is also easy to master shut-down and start-up routines in advance and at any time in order to considerably reduce the planned downtime.

Easy and unlimited by plant operation access to training for rare situations is a key benefit here. Each industrial field operator can receive training as many times as it’s necessary to get familiar with a given procedure as if it was every day job.

Problem

How to be prepared for a situation everybody is trying to avoid? How to get hands-on experience in coping with situations, which happen not even once in a lifetime?

Solution

vReact is capable of simulating any imaginable situation, including emergency or even catastrophic events, without any risk to personnel or equipment.

From a minor failure to fully-fledged rescue action – anything can be repeatedly trained in order to master the coping skills. Gain the confidence of a veteran without even going to a real battle!

vReact can replicate in high-fidelity and to a greatest possible extent the specific environment of a site during an emergency event: high noise, limited visibility due to smoke or fumes, wind, rain, fog, fire, handicapped vision due to wearing a chemical resistant suit, and many others.

vReact allows gaining unlimited access to training: any time, for any duration, repeatable as needed, from anywhere.

Everything above will give assurance that we have well-trained staff.

Problem

Employee turnover, retirement of senior staff, insufficient personnel to train new candidates, general relative low qualifications of new candidates.

Solution

Finding ready skilled personnel on the market so in most cases, especially in the case of less popular plants, the need to educate freshly hired staff is a real challenge. To make things even worse, the technical knowledge of the newbies, even in general terms, is quite often insufficient as is the available staff to conduct and oversee the training.

vReact addresses all those issues and more by enabling efficient, unlimited by time or place, type of process or application, compelling training, which does not require overseeing by more experienced personnel,

3D VR training is a computer game-like application, it perfectly suits the new generation of employees, who are very familiar with computers. Using this approach we engage the new staff by sheer fun, sense of competition and achievement, at the same perfecting their professional skills.

It’s worth mentioning that even the senior operator requires periodic training and from time to time needs to retake the training of a procedure that is not performed on a regular basis. vReact can also help the experienced employees to acquire new competence, e.g. when moving to another plant and/or process.

Confident staff with proven competence is priceless.

Problem

Industrial companies are usually large organizations with many internal protocols and policies. Due to formal procedures, lots of paperwork and tight schedules, employees and managers are reluctant to acquire new competence or simply do not have the time to try.

Solution

In contrast to paper manuals, boring e-learning systems, most of the new and current employees are anxious to train using 3D | VR training. It’s fast, effective, and easy to assimilate. Our own experience proves beyod doubt that the vast majority of the employees prefer the interactive solution over a standard learning tools.

3D VR Training is a tool that employees like more and find more effective.

Problem

Costs of employee training, production problems, downtime of the machinery or whole facility, in worst case scenarios fatal accidents and environmental pollution. Resulting financial risks are huge in almost all cases.

Solution

3D VR training thanks to reducing the possibility of human error which causes 70 to 90% emergency events brings savings due to considerable lower numbers of accidents and shortening planned downtimes.

It is not an easy task to come up with a figure, illustrating the profitability of a VR training solution, but if we imagine a chemical plant bringing a humble USD 1 000 000 per year, each day of downtime costs approximately USD 3,000 of lost profit, not to mention the cost of repairs and start-up of the plant.

This is also widely supported by various studies related to e.g. OTS (operator training simulator) implementation for DCS operators  since it has been rolled out in the gas/oil industry after an environmental incident in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 (BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill). Data presented in Honeywell’s Special Report (link) supports this approach showing huge savings due to the lower rate of accidents and downtimes. 

Less accidents, downtime, incident and near misses can also positively affect risk calculation for a insurance premiums, which adds to the other benefits.