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Requirements for the Implementation of Virtual Reality in Learning Factories

2020

Current trends such as increasing flexibility and new digital technologies are changing the jobs in the modern manufacturing industry and constantly demand new competencies from its employees. There-fore, companies are focusing on the training and competency development of their employees. In the context of this trend, learning factories play an increasingly important role. They offer an environment in which employees can develop competencies under practice-oriented conditions. The Institute for Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW) at the Technical University Darmstadt operates a modern learning factory called CiP (Center for Industrial Productivity) for research, training and education purposes. Within the on-going interdisciplinary research project “PortaL” (Virtual action tasks for personalized adaptive learning) the institute develops personalized virtual reality training scenarios that are intended to become part of trainings within the learning factory. Th...

Approach for Conceptualization and Implementation of Virtual Reality in Learning Factories

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021

Learning factories are already in their physical design a complex and expensive tool for vocational training. However, despite the high-quality learning factory concepts available today, the complexity of the industrial production environment makes the transfer of intended competencies into the operational application situation a challenging task. With Virtual Reality (VR), this challenge can be met by adapting the learning environment and personalizing the learning scenario to the respective participants. Though, the adaption of the learning environment to the expected participants brings new challenges. In addition to the necessity of a clear definition of target groups and intended competencies, which is also present in the physical concept, there are further challenges for VR, e.g. the selection of design elements in the virtual environment or the best possible integration of virtual learning scenarios in hybrid learning modules. That can be met with a reasonable conception and ...

Virtual Reality System for Industrial Training

2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, 2007

In this paper, a Virtual Reality Training system for maintenance of industrial equipment is presented. Since equipment are usually designed with CAD tools, it is feasible to create the Virtual Reality model. Despite of the virtual reality system itself, seting up an industrial related training system implies several processes in order to transform initial Computer Aided Design model into interactive models suitable for training processes. Our virtual training system is being developed following two main implementation approachs. On one hand a commercial tool (Eon Professional) is being used. On the other, the same system is being developed using open-source tools. Both approaches are described in this paper.