Qatar Airways Teams Up with Rolls Royce to Bring VR Training for Engineers
With the aid of VR technology, the engineers will be tasked to repair Rolls Royce’s flagship engine, The Trent XWB.
Training is a crucial part of any technical education, however, it is also the lengthiest. There is a considerable time delay that happens during the training time because most of the time, the workers will be handling highly sensitive parts and mistakes are very costly!
Qatar Airways has teamed up with Rolls Royce to provide Virtual Reality aircraft training for their engineers. With this technology, the engineers will be tasked to repair Rolls Royce’s flagship engine, The Trent XWB.
Rolls Royce is a company which has become the synonym for luxury in wheels. However, keen followers will also know that that they are one among the most reputable aircraft engine manufactures in the world.
The engineers will be trained using virtual reality experience, so that they have the freedom to make an error, empowering them to learn without the fear of damaging equipment worth millions. The VR experience is facilitated by HTC Vive.
Before deciding on implementing such a training ecosystem, the engineers would learn about the engine, its repairs, and maintenance using a real engine that had been taken for service, or one that’s been flown to Doha for this purpose. However, this is a costly affair and restricts the students time on familiarizing themselves with the engine.
With the new VR experience, the students will be able to differentiate the engines using sight sound and touch. The VR model of the engine is made to reflect the actual engine in every detail.
Steve Buckland, Customer and Product Training Manager – Rolls Royce commented “Virtual reality has a valuable application here. It’s going to save time, money, and frees up engines that could otherwise be on aircraft, keeping passengers moving. Nothing will beat learning with an engine and this will never be replaced, but new technology is allowing us to be innovative with the ways we teach engineers,”
And that is the keyword phrase that leads companies to technology, it allows them “to be innovative”. The engineers can now learn in detail about the engine, and have the leeway to make mistakes, and learn from them. VR based education showing its prowess, and we can surely hope that many other industries will follow in their footsteps.
