Virtual training in mobile plant for turbocharger in oil and gas industry in Kuwait
Virtual maintenance training or virtual reality (VR) in the industrial and energy industry has been a topic of discussion inside recent years. All major oil and gas companies in recent years have advocated design and develop virtual maintenance training system for the greater benefit of the human...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/84234/1/FK%202019%20101%20-%20ir.pdf |
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| Summary: | Virtual maintenance training or virtual reality (VR) in the industrial and energy
industry has been a topic of discussion inside recent years. All major oil and
gas companies in recent years have advocated design and develop virtual
maintenance training system for the greater benefit of the humanity and the
environment focusing on sustainable development. Oil and gas industry often
requires people to work in hazardous environments, these environments are
constantly increasing in size and complexity as companies look for new more
cost effective ways of doing training and maintenance. In this project, a headbased
fully immersive virtual reality application is developed in Unity 3D for
virtual reality training in industrial equipment maintenance for oil and gas
industry. The overall research is done at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) in which
to analyse the crucial part that affecting the production line in oil and gas
industry. Turbocharger is an essential link in the oil and gas market, helping
industries reduce turnaround times and increase productivity across all spheres
of operation. The scopes of works are focused on the development of
turbocharger parts. The aim of this project is to design and develop virtual
reality (VR) system for turbocharger maintenance training in oil and gas
industry, evaluate the efficiency of the implementation of training through the
Virtual Reality (VR) system and compare between the process performances
data in conventional method. Virtual Reality (VR) application development of a
turbocharger has been done by using 3D modelling software, animation
software and Unity platform software. The effectiveness of the developed VR
training platform was also studied. Experiments were done to evaluate the
effectiveness and acceptance level of a virtual reality application in inspection
and maintenance compared to conventional turbocharger maintenance
training. Validation on this developed virtual reality maintenance training
application is done based on five aspects which are functionality, reliability,
usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability. VR software developed was
evaluated by 20 experts in the oil and gas industry. Result from app validation
shows that the functionality aspect offer the best value with 56% and followed by usability with 52%. Respondents verified that they gain beneficial input and
experience in VR training platform compared to the manual maintenance
method. The results obtained from this study, support the application of
learning and training method of using VR system for a particular assembly task
and the implemented is expected to highly benefit the industries and
maintenance sectors. The possibility of implementing this technology,
especially in industrial and maintenance sectors would lead and benefit both
organizations in training new procedure or task. |
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