Experiments regarding implementation of a virtual training environment for automotive industry

摘要

Training operators for activities ran on automotive manufacturing lines is a long, thorough and laborious process that aims to generate a correct collection of information and actions as well as adequate staff training. Schooling operators has always been costly; therefore, developing an application will facilitate learning the necessary skills. The time until an operator will become productive will be significantly shorter and the exposure to certain risks will also be removed. Learning process can be monitorized for each operator, keeping track of his progress. This allows to estimate completion time of the training and to express an overview on future work activities. At the same time, the operator will acquire skills faster, which normally require long practice and a high level of dexterity. Thus, the authors' proposal is to develop an application for the operators training, within the manufacturing lines, aiming to experiment, in a virtual environment the simulation and the orderly assembly of objects as a stack form. Also, it will be necessary to develop a glove prototype that will have the ability to manipulate and control objects in a virtual environment. The end of this paper will reveal reasons for investing and implementing a new way of teaching, making use of such an application.