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Modern smelters have made the reduction process efficiency and safety a key issue: produce more, faster in a safer environment. By designing and developing highly technical automated machines, equipment suppliers greatly help and support smelters in their objective. However it must be acknowledged that despite such innovation, human remains at the very heart of any operation (reduction process, operations on anode handling in the furnace area or rodding shop) and has a significant impact on it.
To avoid production losses, reduce maintenance cost and increase safety reflexes of the crane operators in case of emergency, ECL™ has recently endowed its PTM simulator with some new revolutionary functions. The operator, facing a double screen on which a 3D virtual environment is generated, will be now equipped with some 3D glasses putting him in a total virtual reality (Cabin rotation, cranes translations).
Well trained, the operator will fully contribute to improve production and increase safely of the smelter.
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Hequet, AG. (2012). Maximize efficiency and safety of smelters through advanced multipurpose simulator solutions. In: Suarez, C.E. (eds) Light Metals 2012. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48179-1_157
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