Methodological proposal for use of virtual reality VR and augmented reality AR in the formation of professional skills in industrial maintenance and industrial safety

Abstract

Training in industrial safety and maintenance is an important subject in the curriculum of technicians, technologists and engineers, in order to guarantee competences on the protection of people, goods and equipment in different industrial processes. In particular, industrial and manufacturing engineers and occupational hazards professionals must strengthen skills and abilities to assess risks, find fault, detect dangerous situations and generate mitigation and intervention plans [1]. For this, the subject of experimentation in real situations or very close to the real ones is made relevant, this favors the best understanding of the studied phenomenon and the lifting of mitigation plans more in line with the reality. However, the approach to special situations to an untested student could generate real risks and difficulties in the accompaniment. Due to this, the possibility of taking the student to these environments like Virtual Reality VR and Augmented Reality AR are explored that place the student in situations or environments that reproduce reality and with more information, reducing to the maximum the proximity with the source of risk and accompanying him for his correct evaluation of the performance.