There are many different reasons that make training very important when it comes to the Oil & Gas industry.
One of the main problems that these big companies, as well as Nuclear or Chemical big companies, are facing is the impossibility to do the training in a real environment, as it could cost a lot of money. Although there is no way that a new operator, it doesn’t really matter the area he/she will work on; will be allowed to start working in the real facility without a previous training.
Up to now it was almost impossible to have a real 3D model of the Plant because, as I have mentioned in previous posts, there was no way to have complete 3D plant rendered on a PC, with enough performance to have a realistic environment. Therefore 2D or faked 3D worlds were used, losing the big advantage of working in a real model.
Again, thanks to the new technologies applied to the 3D and a bunch of incredible developers that love graphics, this is starting to become a reality.
There are already a few applications that are starting to integrate with each other in order to have a realistic environment that could cover from a simple Operator routine, where the trainee would have to go around the plant to learn the path he would need to go through in the real environment; to a real shut down where many alarms would need to be controlled and understand in order to proceed in the correct way. These applications are called with different name like OTS (Operational Training System), ITS (Inmersive Training System)...
In addition to the standard 3D training , that is already very useful, were many operators could get trained together, promoting communication and team work, there is also the possibility to have all these in an immersive environment, so the operator really “feels” that he’s walking inside the plant.
I think this is very interesting topic that I’ll keep writing about as there are many things that I keep learning every day.
One of the main problems that these big companies, as well as Nuclear or Chemical big companies, are facing is the impossibility to do the training in a real environment, as it could cost a lot of money. Although there is no way that a new operator, it doesn’t really matter the area he/she will work on; will be allowed to start working in the real facility without a previous training.
Up to now it was almost impossible to have a real 3D model of the Plant because, as I have mentioned in previous posts, there was no way to have complete 3D plant rendered on a PC, with enough performance to have a realistic environment. Therefore 2D or faked 3D worlds were used, losing the big advantage of working in a real model.
Again, thanks to the new technologies applied to the 3D and a bunch of incredible developers that love graphics, this is starting to become a reality.
There are already a few applications that are starting to integrate with each other in order to have a realistic environment that could cover from a simple Operator routine, where the trainee would have to go around the plant to learn the path he would need to go through in the real environment; to a real shut down where many alarms would need to be controlled and understand in order to proceed in the correct way. These applications are called with different name like OTS (Operational Training System), ITS (Inmersive Training System)...
In addition to the standard 3D training , that is already very useful, were many operators could get trained together, promoting communication and team work, there is also the possibility to have all these in an immersive environment, so the operator really “feels” that he’s walking inside the plant.
I think this is very interesting topic that I’ll keep writing about as there are many things that I keep learning every day.
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