The VTREV IZERTIS solution proposes a new training system by means of Virtual Reality. With this solution the personnel is trained in an interactive and progressive way which can be assessed and analyzed.
3. BRIEF COMPANY INTRODUCTION
IZERTIS is a private company specialized in the digital transformation of organizations
by means of technology, consulting services and outsourcing of solutions.
IZERTIS R&D activities are centralised in the Digital Area, which currently involves 47
multidisciplinary professionals and key enabling technologies such as Extended Reality
(XR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Additive
Manufacturing (AM) and Data Science & Business Intelligence (BI).
We have wide experience in the execution of R&D projects, both internal and for
companies from different sectors. Thus, our personnel has a clear vision of the
possibilities of these technologies and how to apply them in a coherent way.
Moreover, IZERTIS has established technology alliances with a large number of
technology providers, which allows us to offer the most suitable solutions based on the
company’s sector and requirements, thus ensuring its success.
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5. AS-IS SCENARIO
The process of starting-up a chemical reactor in a chemical
industry is a very complex and rarely performed task. Since this
process is carried out once or twice a year the costs of having
people trained in such a sensitive process are high. It is also very
risky to rely on a single expert or a set of notes in a confusing
and complex document. Using a training program like V-TREV
would increase the employee’s safety in this process.
Training of the personnel is based on PowerPoint presentations.
Process, actions and expected results are documented as a
procedure of sequential actions/checks to be performed,
arranged by each system involved in the reactor start-up.
Currently, the trainee’s performance is not being assessed –
employees are expected to “learn” all the information from
reading these PowerPoint presentations, without any kind of test
or evaluation process.
7. TO-BE SCENARIO
Our solution proposes a new training system by means of Virtual
Reality. With this solution the personnel is trained in an interactive
and progressive way which can be assessed and analyzed.
V-TREV'S functionalities include:
Virtual training, simulating a real scenario. The interactions with the
different elements will feel familiar to the trainees, in order to make
them easier to retain important information.
Ability of simulating fault cases. These scenarios will put the
employees in situations that could be harmful in real life, preparing
them for them and making them more self-confident should these
situations occur.
Real time-data streaming. This data will be evaluated by an external
system asynchronously to the training process. This functionality is
strongly supported by MIDIH Reference Architecture components.
9. ARCHITECTURE
• Oculus Device
• Azure Virtual Machine, containing:
• Docker container system
• Rest API
• Kafka Broker
• Cassandra DB
• Redash Dashboard
• Evaluation system
• Python-based backend
10. TECHNICAL DETAILS
DATA STREAMING
• MIDIH data in motion
• Real time data streaming
GAME ENGINE
• UX design
• Digital twins
HARDWARE
• 6 DoF
• Standalone
VR TOOLKIT
• Locomotion
• Interactions
DASHBOARD
• MIDIH data at rest
• Customizable
DATABASE
• NoSQL
• Distributed
12. KPIs
USER – CENTRIC
• KPI-1. Reaction
• Survey taken by 13 users
• 100% had positive feelings
• KPI-2. Learning
• Multiple choice exam
• 100% passed the exam
COMPANY - CENTRIC
• KPI-3. Behaviour
• Company diagnostic test
• 100% of users were above
company threshold.
• KPI-4. Results
• Interview with qualified
validator partner
representative
13. KPIs
TECHNICAL
• KPI-5. Scenario composition
• Final scenario with 20 items
• 4 different interactions
• 2 Alternative scenarios
• KPI-6. Experimentation
• Data streaming based in
MIDIH open-source platform
Apache Kafka and Cassandra
BUSINESS
• KPI-7. Reaching industry players
• 54 players were individually reached
• 3 demonstration meetings were held
• 3 demonstration meetings are planned
• KPI-8. Commercial interest
• 5 potential customers with commercial
interest
14. Business impact
V-TREV addresses a common challenge in on-site training of workers in
the industrial sector by easing the training in technical processes and
providing real-time evaluation of the trainee performance.
So far, 5 entities from very different sectors (chemistry, agri-food, logistics,
and fire extinguishing) have shown their commercial interest in the
application of V-TREV results in their training processes.
IZERTIS truly believes that this technology can make a big difference in the
training process, and thus will keep carrying out dissemination and
exploitation activities even after project completion.
As a result, it is expected that the revenues of the Digital Area, which is the
area involved in V-TREV development, will be increased by 2% in the next
three years.