Focus Area: Workforce Development/Visualization
Contact
Joe Jahnke
joe@f3now.com
478-997-9624
F3 Solutions is a limited liability company located in Warner Robins, GA. We provide a high level of professional engineering, virtual reality training simulations, facilities maintenance and consulting services predominantly for government clients.
Virtual Reality Paint Trainer
Problem Statement:
USG has a need to train new and existing painters in proper techniques, in a process order driven environment to improve painter efficiency, reduce flow days and rework due to improper painting/depainting techniques.
Technology Solution Statement:
The VRPT solution was built to meet the requirements and provide painters with basic skills to create consistency individually and as a team. Current and projected workload requires aircraft painters to possess the ability to prepare surfaces and paint on all shifts, on all military assets, and in all facilities in accordance with safety regulations and T.O.’s 1-1-691 and 1-1-8, respectively.
This system allows users to paint individually and as a team and renders and simulates lifelike Global Hawk, C-5, F-16, A-10, KC-135, KC-46, F-15, C-130, C-17 aircraft, located in the actual hangers they are maintained. (i.e., various painting peripherals like paint carts, manlifts, lighting, etc.,). Training modules include primer/topcoat application, depainting (chemical, PMB and hand sanding), small parts painting, and specialized F-15/C-130 radome coating applications. To support training improvements, the solution also integrates a Learning Management System (LMS) that records all user activity/data.
Benefits Statement:
F3 developed a high accuracy, user friendly virtual reality paint training (VRPT) simulator to a deployment ready state. The VRPT is highly adaptable, mimicking fully-customized painting and coating production environments, and capable of simulating full-size aircraft. The solution has definitive capabilities over existing technologies, resulting in measurable improvements in the skill level of painters, maximized planning of resources, and increased throughput of aircraft and parts.
The VRPT has already proven its efficacy. C-17 PDM for aircraft painting has saved 5 flow days on each C-17 due to drastically reduced paint defects. The VRPT has trained over 350 personnel at Robins AFB has seen an increase in transfer efficiency of over 40%.
