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VIRTUAL REALITY Rolls Royce has saved almost £2min just over a year after investing in virtual reality software. The nuclear armof the business was the first in the UK to invest in the 4K systemin 2014 and it has revolutionised the way the company operates. The system’s use of lean
principles has reduced bottlenecks on the factory floor and solved challenges in facility creation, productmovement and product realisation. So far the teamhas identified approximately 30 issues since 2014 leading to the cost avoidance of almost £2m .
“The technology hasmade a huge difference to the general flow on the factory floor and how we handle and move fromone process to another,” explains pre-production deliverymanager WilliamLord. “It's helped us with tooling, and running the facility as well as looking at the head count and resource loads so crucially we can now easily find out where the biggest constraints are. We can change things in amatter of seconds by just highlighting an area andmoving it around. Traditionally you would have to create amultitude of drawings or drafts and then go through the assessments. The great thing is virtual reality allows you to explore these scenarios with multiplemembers of staff fromdifferent departments at the same t ime.”
Tomake the new technologymost effective it is being built into Rolls- Royce's existing processes.
“Technology and the speed of
information provides challenges and opportunities in today’s competitive business environment,” comments acting chief executive at the Chartered Quality Institute Vince Desmond.
“By engaging quality professionals when undergoing innovation businesses can ensure that technology is seen as an enabler for process improvement that delivers benefit for the customer and efficiency for the organisation."
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HBM announces latest series of informative webinars
H
BM – a market leader in the field of test and measurement – is pleased to announce the dates for its latest series of free webinars, which take place 19th – 22nd April 2016. The six seminars, which run over three days and last s to an hour, have been designed to fit in with challenging hich can often make attending relevant topics,
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difficult. Providing advice and focus on a variety of
training courses the first of
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webinars, which begins on 19th April, provides an insight into ‘Infrastructure Monitoring with Optical Fiber Sensors: Different, not difficult’, and offers a reliable and safe solution for numerous testing applications. Also available on 19th April
is ‘Advanced Aircraft Electrical System Testing’ which will explain HBM’s solution for advanced testing and measurement of components and the complete electrical grid of an aircraft. Presented by Dirk Eberlein, Product and Application Manager for Genesis HighSpeed, this webinar will focus on: how a scalable data acquisition system with 4 to 10,000 channels will be used for component
testing up to full electrical grid certification; the analysis of the
data collected from an aircraft’s electrical grid, motor and generator; and how to directly and safely measure high voltages up to 1,000V and currents. This is followed by a further webinar
Testing’ which looks at HBM’s nCode software and how it can assist engineers to make the right engineering decisions, undertake rapid analysis and work collaboratively. On day two participants are invited to ‘Get the mos t out of TEDS (Transducer Electronic Data Sheet) .
in the afternoon on ‘Fatigue and Durability test
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