Virtual Reality Welding - welding has never been this much fun

Launching at the AWS/FabTech Show in Chicago, the VRTEX™ 360 is an amazing tool for instructors and students alike. Reduce material waste, improve the image of welding, attract new welders, and learn welding faster with the VRTEX™ 360.

Why Virtual Reality Welding?

•High Demand for Welders: Projected to be one of the highest number of added jobs per year in many areas of the country.

•Gap in the availability of skilled welders: aging workforce, reduction in welding programs in vocational schools, disinterest in welding occupation by current tech-savvy generation

•Increasing performance requirements for manufactured  systems: raising the bar for structural fabrication and welders' skills to build these high-value components

Virtual Reality Simulation History

•Immersive VR has been around a long time and was originally developed as a gaming platform.  NASA adopted only after Flight Simulators came into being.

•Initially adopted by NASA and the Department of Defense.

•Continued use of virtual Reality is widely used in developing virtual prototypes in all types of design situations.

•Today price reductions in hardware and new software tools have pushed this type of simulation to many new applications.

 

Key Benefits

•Improved workmanship and productivity: 

 Unlike classroom or computer-based training, virtual reality creates a hands-on experience that augments visualization with muscle memory and kinetic awareness

•Promotes faster learning: 

Trainees can complete more practice welds within a fixed amount of training time. VRSim's preliminary results indicate reduction in total training time by over 15%

•Instant feedback: 

from each weld pass allows the trainee to hone the specific skills that need improvement until the full technique of laying a quality weld is achieved.

 

•Increased training retention and improved trainee/worker safety: 

Welders learn new techniques or practice their skills in a safe environment without risk of injury

•Reduced training costs: 

Students can receive more hands-on practice welding without consuming expensive materials and cost of waste disposal is eliminated.

•Expanded training options: 

Virtual environment can be set for complex and critical welds involving expensive components

•Environmental concerns: 

Harmful emissions and/or waste materials are eliminated in a virtual environment