break trough effectivness for the maintenance

Break-Through Effectiveness for the Maintenance and Dismantlement of Power Plants

Application of Virtual Reality

Introduction

New Technology presentation

– Motion capture systems

– Connected applications

– Immersive technology

– Augmented reality

Application

– Global maintenance process

– Keys issues

– Application example

Conclusion

Questions

Agenda

Digit-Prime, Innovation and New Technologie Solutions, Zo Rasatavohary

Introduction


New market emergency

Pockets growth in developing country for EU

Meeting point of opposite statements – Maintenance of Highly Complex Technical Systems

(with)

– Average qualified technician

(with)

– High demand on compliancy with safety & standard

Introduction


That was the starting point of the project

How to leverage efficiently and easily the knowledge benefits of design engineering knowledge, to maintenance technician ?



Motion capture system : Kinect2



Motion capture system : Leap Motion

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Connected Applications

Engineering plans

Real-time information from plant sensors

3D plans


Immersive Technology



+

Virtual Reality

+ Kinect

Leap Motion

Motion capture system


Augmented Reality


credits to http://www.augmentedrealitytrends.com/ credited to iqagent


Application, maintenance process

Maintenance operations report

Mobile applications Connected applications

Operations executions of maintenance

Intelligent documentation Live data from systems Live actions on the system

Preparation of maintenance operations

Simulation and training with immersive environment

90% of technical operations simulated

Maintenance data analysis

History analysis Failure prediction


Key issues – Too much documents needed during operations

• ( electrical wiring schemes, piping schemes, mechanical implantations, equipment lists ...)

– The real-time information on the systems is composed of plenty of data • pressure, voltage, flow, time schedule of other running operations

– The operation needs to be time and result efficient • limited time frame to operate, and no turning back : it must work

– The maintenance technician is not the expert • the technician is generally not an expert of the system

– Environment is hostile • noisy, dangerous, chemical, nuclear, high altitude ...

– Operations tools is more needed than documentation

Application


Project general information : Global system configuration :

– 300 pages of electrical schemes

– 4 Go of 3D models data

– 1300 electrical and embed components

– 9800 connexions between system and subsystem

– 68 000 logical variables to check

– 40 calculators

Maintenance case applied on – Low voltage feature ( < 25kv)

– Specific non safety feature

– Identified type of failure (with identified procedure, cure and operation)

Experimentation process : – Simulation of failures (not know by the technician)

– Two technicians were running his checking and maintenance procedure

– One technician with no application support

– Second technician with application support

Application


Some conclusions :

3D Immersive tools, not the best match for maintenance operation

3D Immersive tools best suited for preparation

Augmented reality is best suited for maintenance operations

Battery life duration of glass or tablet is still a minor issue

Time to solution has been improved

Change management is a challenge

Integration with PLM would always maintain the app up to date

Application


New Technology helps : – leveraging maintenance services offer diversity

– leveraging maintenance efficiency

– leveraging maintenance conditions

– lowering maintenance prerequisites knowledge to operate

– improving maintenance service quality

– opening new maintenance market opportunity

New technology mixture will compose the toolbox of future maintenance technician

Conclusion

Break-Through Effectiveness for the Maintenance

Application of Virtual Reality

Questions ?

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