How Enhanced Reality technology increases operator competency and reduces human error

About this presentation

Retirement and turnover in the process industry (the great resignation) is impacting many manufacturing sites with severe “brain drain” at all levels, especially operators.

The industry is searching for ways to make onboarding of new hires and plant specific qualification more efficient and effective. Traditional methods, like classroom training and shadowing experienced colleagues and SMEs are still important but no longer sufficient. Moreover, these traditional ways to pass on procedural knowledge tend to be highly dependent on the individual (people), which hinders standardization. Over time, shifts develop different ways of doing things, departing from the original procedure or taking shortcuts.

In many instances, this leads to practice in the field not reflecting the written procedure. Our industry has a clear need for more transparency and a higher level of control over the practical procedural knowledge of the workforce (tribal knowledge), as well as a way to check and measure the level of operator knowledge and procedural compliance.

These challenges and shortcomings directly impact operational productivity due to long onboarding times and unplanned equipment downtime as a result of operating errors. They also directly impact plants’ safety performance, especially where actions cannot be automated and secured by safety instrumented systems. Enhanced Reality (ER) technology has been proven to solve the challenges described above.

Speaker Bio:

Bas Janssen has built close to 20 years of industry knowledge in the process & power industry through global equipment manufactures. From Alfa Laval to Pentair / Emerson in various roles, from sizing control valves -as sales engineer to Inside & Export Sales Manager, and finally as Business Unit Manager Europe for all sliding stem control valves. Currently Sales Director for Voovio Technologies. Supporting the industry with a much more pressing challenge: Capturing tribal knowledge and training of field operators on flawless procedure execution. Especially in a world where human mistakes are not just costly from a financial perspective but could have far-reaching personal and environmental consequences.