Virtual Maintenance Training
Effective maintenance is the key to successful operation and is the result of effective training. Maintenance Training on physical real-world devices can be very expensive taking into account removal of equipment from operation, incorrect ordering and handling of new parts, and the availability of equipment to train on. The next generation in Maintenance Training brings crews into a virtual environment with photo realistic 3D interactive computer simulations and Natural Navigation™. These exact virtual replicas of the real-world equipment call to a new generation of maintainers entering service from the computer age.
Industry Problem:
- Expense of removal from service related to taking devices out of service for training
- High Maintenance Training Cost associated with physical consumables, parts broken by students, ordering mistakes and delays
- Equipment availability for information in the field is difficult to find and costly to remove from service
- Access to maintenance manuals in the field is difficult to find
The DiSTI Solution:
DiSTI offers the most advanced, efficient and effective visual solution for virtual maintenance training available today. The next generation of equipment maintainers come from a computer gaming background and can more easily retain the maintenance data given to them in a virtual manner. Also, training on a Virtual Maintenance Trainer can be deployed anywhere anytime. Students can even learn on a laptop or remotely over the internet which drastically reduces the need to take equipment out of service and solving the problem of finding access to the necessary equipment.
- 3D Virtual Interactive Environment - Exact replicas of the real-world equipment where the student needs to train.
- Natural Navigation™ - In the virtual world, students can naturally move around the equipment and interact with it as they would in the real world.
- Interactive Equipment - All the equipment works as it would in the real world. Being able to open doors, remove, replace and test equipment as the student would in real life are key to an effective learning experience.
- Interactive Electronic Manuals - Developers can even make hooks in the virtual 3D equipment to electronic manuals which are easier to maintain than paper manuals. The same 3D equipment in the vehicle or craft can be repurposed in the electronic manuals as well with no redevelopment.
- Immediate access to IETMS and lessons with electronic maintenance training applications.
- Mobile Maintenance Training through laptop or handheld deployable lessons
- Minimize costs by virtual deployment - Deploy the maintenance training application to any OpenGL compliant laptop or handheld device.
- Easy Access to any equipment - User's can have quick and easy access to any piece of equipment to interact with in a real-world fashion.
- Reuse Content - Content can be reused in other training areas
- Modularity in Components - Allows the developers to easily support multiple variants of the same equipment through software reuse and object oriented design techniques.
The GL Studio® Advantage:
GL Studio is the premier Human Machine Interface (HMI) development tool kit that allows for the creation of fully interactive 3D virtual maintenance training content.
- Reduce Maintenance Costs
- Eliminate Need for Equipment Availability
- Enhance Student Safety and Compliance
- Object Oriented Design for Software Reuse
Through the use of DiSTI's Virtual Maintenance Training Environment, 3rd party 3D data can be quickly converted to GL Studio objects as C++ or Java based content. Users can repurpose their existing 3D content (CATIA, 3D Studio Max, OpenFlight, Alias Wavefront) in GL Studio to create rich interactive environments that can be governed by most any simulation or physics based engine. This content can also be repurposed with all of its behavior embedded for web based training, interactive electronic training manuals as well as CBT 4 and IMI Level 4 courseware. Don't redevelop, repurpose and reuse your existing GL Studio created content for all your virtual training needs.
GL Studio's Virtual Maintenance Training Environment
GL Studio® is the world's first and only object oriented, rapid virtual prototyping tool for Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs). With its user-extensible core architecture and integrated 3D development environment, GL Studio is the ideal tool for developing the next generation of virtual maintenance trainers.
GL Studio's Virtual Maintenance Training Environment (VMTE) provides 3D photo realistic training solutions that support a real-time experience on low-cost PC hardware. GL Studio redefines maintenance training development. Built on years of industry expertise and developed through close consultation with top defense manufacturers, GL Studio is already being used to develop next generation maintenance trainers, including the Navy's F/A-18 Simulated Aircraft Maintenance Trainer and the Finnish Air Force's F-18 and the U.S. Navy's SLEP LCAC.
Features
Fully Immersive Interactive 3D Simulations
All the equipment works as it would in the real world. Being able to open doors, remove, replace and test equipment as the student would in real life are key to an effective learning experience.
Natural Navigation™
In the virtual world, students can naturally move around the equipment and interact with it as they would in the real world.
3D Content Translation
Repurpose CAD data and other existing assets to quickly build accurate and robust 3D virtual environments. Use assets modeled with 3ds Max, Maya, Creator and numerous other tools, which create OpenFlight, DWB, ASE or CATIA data.
Flexible User-defined Simulation Interfaces
Connect your virtual environment to virtually any simulation from industry standard simulation tools to your own in-house tools.
Database Driven Configuration
Virtually any aspect of your training system can be user configured in real-time. Support multiple configurations and baselines in a single operational device.
