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Real-Time Data Visualisation

Your 3D environment isn't static - it can be connected directly to your real-world plant via your existing control system. Using MVX, your virtual environment will show you the process variables in real time.

Mechanical hardware like valves, cylinders, doors, cranes and more all are in their proper positions in the simulation. You can even track vehicles and staff using GPS tags or image recognition and place them in the simulated environment exactly where they are.

Process data changes your virtual environment from a still-frame photograph to a living, breathing plant that behaves exactly like the real thing.

Benefits of 3D Visualisation

Complementing SCADA

A standard SCADA system gives you a 2D overview of your plant operations - but in order to make it clear you lose the connection between the objects on your screen and the hardware in your real plant. A sensor that appears right next to a pipe in your SCADA system may be hundreds of meters away in reality.

Using a 3D simulation of your plant allows you to see all of the same data as your SCADA system, but in the context of your real, physical plant. Has a sensor died? Rather than searching for drawings to find where the thing actually is, press a button and you will be taken there in your virtual plant.

You can see the exact position of your mechanical hardware and even see your product being produced from half a world away.

Complementing Real Life

Being physically on the plant has the opposite problem to SCADA. You can see all of your hardware, but its difficult to get an idea of your process as a whole. You can only see the surface of your equipment, you don't really know what is going on inside your machines or out of your view.

Virtual environments aren't restricted by the rules of the real world. In the virtual world you are always kept up-to-date on alarms, warnings appear as bright beacons from the sky and you can see and feel your process variables through pipes, walls and buildings.

We hope to soon bring you augmeted reality options as well.

Telepresence

With a virtual environment, there is no need to be on-site to explore your site.

From the other side of the planet, you can connect via the Internet and walk through your plant as if you were really there.

You can even intract with your plant - after logging in, buttons in your virtual environment can work exactly like the buttons and controls in your real-world plant* to let you do almost anything you could do on-site.

* This is an optional feature and will only work with equipment with PLC-driven electronic inputs or control.

Enhanced Senses

You can see far more in a 3D environment that you ever could in the field. You can see your pressure, feel your turbidity and tell if a sensor is isolated from a dozen meters away.

On-Demand Tutorials

Sometimes a technician on a remote site may not be familliar with the particular location, or a little rusty when it comes to a maintenance task.

Your virtual environment can include tutorials that give them a quick refresher on the steps needed to complete a task.

Historical Replay

Your data doesn't have to be live - you can go back in time to replay and relive previous events in real-time, slow motion or by fast-forwading through the recorded data.