Development of a system for practical skill training of maintenance personnel

Abstract

Japanese companies offering plant maintenance services often employ workers from Asian neighbors. Those workers receive practical skill training at training centers before being dispatched to the various plants where they actually work. This paper proposes a method and a system for providing those workers with the practical skill training. The system judges progress in the work from the images of the facilities to be maintained and gives step-by-step instructions to the workers in accordance with the progress in the work. The system employs the client-server architecture of processing. A client displays operation manuals to the workers nearest to the facilities. The server judges the progress in the maintenance work and combines all the data for the practical skill training. In this paper the validity of the method is verified by a trial operation and discussed from the standpoint of the processing time and the determination of the progress in the work.