AVEVA Activity Visualisation PlatformIndustrial Gaming for the capital engineering industries

People learn best by doing. But when making a mistake can be catastrophic, opportunities for learning on the job can be seriously limited. The aviation industry overcame this through the development of sophisticated flight simulators that have resulted in dramatic improvements in flight safety and preparatory training for almost any scenario. Now, with AVEVA Activity Visualisation Platform (AVEVA AVP), a similar capability is available for the plant, marine and offshore industries.

Technologies developed for the video gaming industry now offer their users highly realistic, immersive 3D virtual worlds in which they can engage with other players and with objects and entities that behave in a convincingly lifelike manner. The ability to interact with these virtual worlds in increasingly sophisticated ways has at last made it possible to create accurate simulations of real-world environments.

AVEVA AVP comprises a powerful application development environment (AVEVA AVP Studio) and a secure user access and run time system (AVEVA AVP Player) that enable the creation and distribution of immersive, interactive, multi-player training simulations of physical plants and installations directly from a 3D design model even before the plant has been built. The scope this offers for safer and more efficient construction, operation and maintenance of complex engineering assets is considerable.

For Engineering Contractors

z Create realistic, immersive simulations of plant designs for bid support and marketing

z Increase project value by optimising design for operational safety and efficiency

z Optimise construction methods and scheduling using high-quality visualisation

z Bring geographically-dispersed teams into the virtual plant to quickly solve technical issues

z Reduce construction errors and rework by greater accuracy of construction planning

z Easier remote planning and preparation of plant walk-downs prior to certification

For Owner Operators

During project execution

z Contribute more easily to design for safe and efficient operations

z Verify regulatory compliance of proposed procedures

z Communicate more effectively with third-party stakeholders

z Accelerate the readiness of maintenance teams and field operators prior to handover

During asset operation

z Increase operational safety and efficiency

z Familiarise new staff early, thoroughly and safely, prior to handover

z Improve training and competency checks

z Practise hazardous training scenarios risk-free

z Plan, validate and rehearse emergency response procedures

Business Benefits

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Avatars in AVEVA AVP interact with scene elements to execute required actions of a task

AVEVA AVP accelerates operational readiness on all types of plant projects. Engineering contractors (EPCs) can optimise plant design for safe and efficient operations from the outset. Owner Operators (OOs) can plan, evaluate, rehearse and train their operators for every type of routine or emergency activity, well in advance of handover.

AVEVA AVP is the most effective tool for: facility familiarisation; training; construction, operations and maintenance planning; and the planning and simulation of safety-critical activities. In each case, it achieves this without putting personnel, production output or the plant itself at risk. Personnel can become familiar with remote or unmanned sites prior to attending to maximise their productivity and safety on site. Efficiency and understanding can be increased through the advanced planning and rehearsal of tool box meetings, and HAZOP assessments can be performed even before construction is complete.

Zero risk minimum cost maximum effectivenessAVEVA AVP enables the training of personnel in the most difficult procedures, in the most hazardous situations, but in perfect safety. Users can practise anything from the simplest inspection walk-around to the most complex maintenance task, either alone or as a team, repeating or refreshing as often as necessary without the costs and risks of personal injury or plant downtime.

Use of existing engineering and design data sources makes creating simulations a practical and affordable investment, while using these simulations requires only normal, office-specification computers.

The ability to train or evaluate operators at any time, in any location and as often as necessary, maximises their effectiveness and reduces opportunities for human error, the leading cause of safety incidents.

Overview

AVEVA AVP supports multiple avatar use enabling realistic simulation of collaborative team activity

z Accuracy Realistic 3D virtual worlds can be created directly from AVEVA

PDMS, AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) or third-party 3D design and engineering data, incorporating detailed model textures and shading. The virtual world can contain enhanced geometry models with properties recognised by physics engines for simulation and Industrial Gaming purposes.

z Realism The physics engine, either the integrated NVIDIA PhysX

engine or another third-party engine, ascribes realistic attributes to avatars and objects, including gravity, mass, solidity of walls and materials. Approximate simulation of certain physical systems, such as rigid body, soft body, and fluid dynamics, enables a user to experience the reality of a hazardous or difficult-to-reach environment.

z Interactivity Users navigate and interact with the virtual environment either

through a direct, first-person viewpoint, or via controllable avatars. They can open doors, climb ladders, jump on and over objects, walk, run, bump into objects, even knock them over; in fact, almost any action that would realistically be required, or that could happen in the real world.

z Rapid scenario creation A wide variety of training scenarios, for individuals or multiple

users, can be rapidly created by configuring properties such as task difficulty and by creating visual guides, task clues and interface displays.

Custom graphical user interfaces can be created using any HTML 5 or .NET editing tool. Behaviours of 3D models in a scene can be controlled using timelines or scripts to create a variety of complex actions. These activities can be triggered as an avatar moves through the facility or by the user themselves via GUI elements such as animated valves, levers, forklifts and so on.

A multi-user communication server synchronises users behaviour in near real-time, enabling realistic simulation of collaborative team activity.

z In-app web browsing The in-application browser can be associated with individual

model elements, providing instant information look-up from AVEVA NET or any other data or document management web server, or providing real-time or simulated data from any web-enabled data source.

Providing links to websites, training manuals or real-time process data can simulate a typical method for an operator to obtain product or work pack information, or to check the current plant status before or during a task.

Key Features

AVEVA AVP supports in-application web browsers for immediate information look-up

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Key Features (continued)z Environment terrain and geographical data AVEVA AVP can contain terrain data, including satellite

imagery and elevation data, enabling the virtual plant model to be incorporated into real world terrain similar to that contained within the Google Earth mapping service. The AVEVA AVP Earth model provides latitude, longitude and elevation coordinates enabling exact location and altitude properties to be applied for convincing realism.

z Scene illumination and viewing Interactive visualisation capabilities provide several

illumination types including point, directional and spot lights. Hundreds of individual lights, animated or static, can be incorporated into a scene for accurate simulation of lighting conditions and effects. Shadows from directional light sources can be calculated dynamically as the scene changes, to provide additional realism. The illumination of the virtual site can also follow a steady transition from day to night time.

To watch a scene or an event, a variety of camera types enables observation from almost any desired viewpoint. Cameras can be fixed, animated or attached to a scene object, or they can follow the motion of an object.

z Motion definition Realistic motion and control of complex machines and other

objects are easily achieved, either using an integrated timeline editor or by importing motion data derived from other sources. Avatars can be used to represent not only individuals but also machinery which can interact directly with each other e.g. a scissor lift in operation.

Trigger actions can synchronise motion and control a number of non-motion properties for most entities in a scene. These can include lights, cameras, vehicles, or any other object the movement of which enhances the realism of the simulation.

AVEVA AVP can also combine predefined (animated) and physics-based motion in one interactive scene or application. Complex machine models, such as cranes, forklifts and subsea vehicles, can be controlled with realistic motion via standard input devices. Machine positioning can also be linked to external data sources through the AVP Communication Server, enabling its position in the virtual world to be updated in near real time.

Real-time shadows and hundreds of lights for scene illumination and visual realism