Virtual Reality Applied to Industrial Processes

Control and Monitoring of Industrial Processes Through Virtual Reality

“…The design of those virtual modules are based on Pipes and Instrumentation Diagrams, P&ID, located on each real station, and converted from two to three dimensions using CAD software as it can be seen on Fig. 3 and that is analyzed in detail on [6,7]. The rest of the VR environment is created using another graphics engine called Unity 3D due to its crossplatform benefits, as well as the support it offers to software developers to help them familiarizing with the program in their initials [11,12].…”

“…The rest of the VR environment is created using another graphics engine called Unity 3D due to its crossplatform benefits, as well as the support it offers to software developers to help them familiarizing with the program in their initials [11,12]. One of the advantages that Unity 3D offers to developers, is the opportunity to import elements created in different software that are not connected to the own Unity editor, improving in this way, the experience offered to programmers by expanding the characteristics they can give to VR environments [6,13].…”

“…Within technological progress, it is easy to find Virtual Reality, VR, which has been doing great advances in training systems development, as well as the creation of environments that allow users a complete immersion, interaction and a 360 degree experience equivalent to act inside a real world atmosphere [5][6][7][8][9][10]. * Email Address: dacastillo@espe.edu.ec For all above, a system which includes the benefits of an industrial network is proposed in this paper.…”

Virtual Training for Industrial Process: Pumping System

“…Nowadays, the virtual technology has been implemented in several environments such as: education, medicine and especially at industries, this one allows to develop the catchment level and with it the understanding of the work environment that all staff in the industry must have [1]. The industrial processes always require to get support, calibration and adjustments of each system's instrument, where a lot of them are dangerous to the operator who doesn't have enough training [2], in order to avoid that the company has required to different alternatives where the process does not represent any danger for the operator and machine, e.g., industrial digitalization where the operator can visualize the behavior of the machine. The use of virtual entertainment results a better experience for the operator, duo to the fact that it can interact with elements of the system and at the same time to watch all different changes [3].…”