The drilling simulator adopts the concept of virtual manufacturing technology, and the development process is based on modern computer control technology, computer simulation technology, computer graphics technology, computer network technology, combined with the actual technology of drilling engineering, changing the original drilling training method.
The development of the oil industry is inseparable from the on-site geological conditions and is full of crises and challenges. There are high requirements for employees’ ability and safety awareness, and traditional on-site training has certain limitations. For example, whether the effect of vocational training is good mainly depends on the level of teachers. There is no clear and unified evaluation standard for the training process. reusability, etc.
It can be seen that the traditional training technology is not only limited by time and space but also has great problems in terms of manpower, resources, funds, organization, and implementation. Especially for advanced training in dangerous operations or without experimental conditions, traditional training methods are even more difficult to achieve. The limitations of the traditional training mode restrict the expected training quality and training efficiency, and cannot meet the needs of modern society, so the advantages of drilling simulators are highlighted.
A drilling simulator is a control-centric VM device, mainly used for the training of drilling talents. This set of virtual training equipment uses virtual reality technology to realistically simulate the details of the drilling process. Through the operation of the simulated drilling rig equipment, the trainees can directly observe the activities on the drilling platform and the operation results, and finally, achieve the effect of allowing the trainers to master the correct operation process. Virtual training has the following characteristics:
Simulation
With the support of virtual reality technology, the virtual training facility has the same function and operation method as the real training facility, and the trainees can train their skills through the virtual training facility as easily as in the real training base. This is because the virtual training environment, whether it is a real environment or an imagined environment, is virtual but realistic. The ideal virtual environment should be such that it is difficult for the trainee to distinguish the real from the fake.v
Openness
A virtual training environment can provide a variety of training venues for all trainees at any time and place. In fact, the connotation of a virtual training environment is extensive. It is different from the traditional training base concept. It has an environment similar to traditional training programs, but it is better at making the trainees immerse themselves in the realistic environment of the training program objects. Any virtual environment in which trainees can learn or train certain skills through the operation of relevant appliances is attributed to the virtual training environment.
Hypertemporality
The virtual training environment has the characteristics of time and space. It can display or organically combine the objects and events owned by the past world, the present world, the future world, the micro world, the macro world, the objective world, the subjective world fantasy world, etc. Provide training to students anytime, anywhere.
Drilling simulators have positive implications for safe, effective, and high-quality training in oilfields. It can meet the ever-changing requirements of skill training in the information age and is an emerging flexible training model with high level, high efficiency, and low cost. As the graphic part of the drilling simulator, the drilling simulator visual simulation system truly displays the three-dimensional environment and operation process of the well site, which is of great significance to the entire virtual training process. Esimtech is a professional drilling simulation provider and we have the most advanced simulation devices for you to choose from, please contact us if you are in need of it.
Multiple layers of materials must be neatly bonded together in the production of coil materials, or else waste or jams will occur. The web guiding system is capable of multi-layer material alignment, zero waste in the refueling process, and no jams. The web guide is a programmable correction controller that tracks the material’s edge or printing lines for high-accuracy swing.
Working Principle of Web Guiding System
A closed-loop controller is used by the web guiding system. First, the sensor detects the coil’s edge or line, and the system automatically reads the deviation between the coil’s actual and setting positions and converts the offset into an electrical signal. The signal is then sent to the controller. The signal is then calibrated by the controller and sent to the linear driver. The linear driver drives the deviation correction according to the magnitude of the signal. Then the guide mechanism adjusts the coil to the set position. The drive signal of the current drive is only proportional to the deviation of the coil, which makes it possible to provide precise control for various coils.
Applications of Web Guiding System
The web guide system is used in a variety of industries, including packaging, printing, labels, building materials, paper pulp, non-woven fabrics, and corrugated paper processing.
Characteristics of Web Guiding System
1. Brushless servo motor, no maintenance required
2. Accurate ball screw
3. The guide roller’s length and span can be adjusted.
4. The most difficult-to-detect material can also be easily controlled.
5. The tracking speed can be adjusted arbitrarily without affecting the belt shaft’s size.
6. The semi-fast voltage and electric current feedback function can automatically restore and protect the internal circuit system, with good stability and quick action response.
High-performance Arise Web Guiding System
Arise is a leading web guiding system manufacturer in China with an audited R&D team. Using Arise’s high-precision web guiding equipment, you can ensure continuous and accurate edge position control of multi-layer non-woven fabric in various production processes while keeping the machine running at full speed.Speaking of the Petroleum industry, what would you think of? Black oil gushing out from the ground? Or giant machines roaring offshore and in the desert? To be sure, it’s a field of both high-input and high-output, generating millions of barrels of “Liquid Gold” every day, and consuming huge resources and high-tech labor at the same time.
To extract oil and gas from the ground, well-trained operators and high-precision instruments are both vital. Demand for high-quality labor always requires labor training to be more efficient and effective, that’s where it comes to the drilling simulator.
What is a drilling simulator?
Generally, a set of devices that replicates the environment, phenomenon, operations, and feedback of the oil & gas drilling process. To achieve a certain level of fidelity, a full size drilling simulator is often equipped with physical operation consoles like the driller console, the BOP console, the remote console, etc. Along with a highly simulated display system (normally 3D), the whole layout of the device looks exactly like the operating room.
Apart from physical devices and equipment, petroleum-based drilling software is designed and embedded in the entire system to interact with the operators. They can lay their own hands on the handles and buttons to do the drilling, then get feedback from the machine to see how a natural oil well would respond to their operation. By creating “the scene”, operators in the device are enabled to experience how these expensive gases and liquids are being produced by our technicians and workers. You’d know it by now, the machine is created to train practitioners in the Petroleum industry.
The use of simulators for personnel training is not new at all in some specific industries and fields: aerospace, military, marine survey, and even car driving lessons. Now the digitization of tutorials has come to the oil & gas industry. Since its invention, thousands of drilling simulators have been deployed around the globe, providing E&P companies and drilling contractors a lot more well-trained labor than before by improving the efficiency of oil and gas work skills teaching. Petroleum engineering has also benefited from it.
Why not just train the operator on site?
The answer to this question is clear: for HSE and money-saving.
The petroleum industry requires complex and high-precision work skills, while the dangerous and harsh environment makes it hard to carry out any training activity at the construction site. To ensure the trainees’ health and safety while providing them with practical training, a simulation system becomes a good way out.
Another factor is that a part of oil and gas production accidents in recent years are caused by human factors, and the consequences of such accidents can be catastrophic. Complete HSE training is necessary before actual work.
Some might wonder why is it money-saving since you need to purchase this complex machine at a price of a nice car. While a whole set of simulation training systems can be costly, it’s only a fraction compared to the cost of oil & gas production (btw drilling is one of the most expensive parts of the entire process). That is to say, having your trainees operating on the real machine could potentially cost a lot more money (and is extremely dangerous). Plus, a drilling simulation training system also helps reduce the non-productive time to a minimum, leading to more output.
Deviation of coil materials may occur during the uncoiling, technological processing, winding, and other processes due to deviation of the coil itself or the processing machine. The web guiding system offers a solution for reducing the occurrence of such incidents. It constantly monitors the position of the coil material during production and makes real-time corrections. The web guiding machine can ensure and improve product quality and efficiency.
Why The Web Guiding Machine Important
Flexo printing machines frequently use an automatic web guide machine to ensure that the printing material enters the printing unit in a stable horizontal position. It can detect and correct a 0.5 mm deviation in a specific horizontal edge position of the printing material in real-time. Photoelectric sensors are commonly used for opaque materials such as paper and aluminum foil, while ultrasonic web guide sensors are used for transparent materials such as films. Once the printing material enters the printing and die-cutting rewinding areas, the installation accuracy of the own processing machine and the parallelism between the rollers ensure the stability of its horizontal edge position.
How Does The Web Guiding Machine Work
The web guiding machine controls the position deviation of the thin material during the conveying process with a constant-speed motor. If the material’s winding speed needs to be changed, the correction speed cannot be changed, which easily leads to the phenomenon that curling cannot be corrected. In addition, the microcomputer photoelectric deviation correction web guiding system can meet the needs of customers.
A computer-controlled photoelectric correction controller, color discrimination tracking photoelectric, ball screw, and synchronous motor are all part of the web guide system. The computer-controlled photoelectric correction system’s MCU control has a frequency conversion output that can adjust the motor speed based on the needs. In terms of production, the structure is simple, easy to use, convenient, and practical.
1. When winding, track the edge of the substrate and correct any unevenness.
2. Keep the coating material equidistant from the substrate’s edge by tracking it.
3. The correction speed can be adjusted to keep in balance with the roll speeds of different materials.
Technical Parameters of The Web Guiding Machine
1. Support three operational methods such as line tracking, edge tracking, centering tracking, and so on.
2. Photoelectric sensor, ultrasonic sensor, and CCD sensor support
3. Automatic detection of sensor parameters; in most cases, there is no need to calibrate the sensor.
4. Automatic stroke measurement in the absence of a mechanical limit switch
5. Extremely fast response time of 500 microseconds (0.5 milliseconds)
The ball screw is driven by a DC servo motor.
7. Save 10 groups of different material parameters for easy and quick material switching.
8. Three-language menu operation in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, and English.
9. Humanized operation, quick and easy.
10. PLC/human-machine interface networking control support.
Web Guiding Machine Expert – Arise
Arise is a China web guide machine manufacturer, and Arise web guiding can ensure continuous, precise control of various coil materials in various production processes. With the high-performance automatic Arise web guide control system, it is possible to ensure that the material does not deviate from the correct position while minimizing waste and downtime.
To ensure that the web tension of the whole corrugated paper production line can meet the requirements of the maximum speed, realize the fast alignment and fitting of the base paper, and minimize the trimming, the carton factory is paying more and more attention to the purchase of the web guide and tension control system. If the corrugated paper production line can be well controlled by the web guide system, it can greatly reduce material waste and save production costs.
Why Use Web Guide And Tension Control System When Building Corrugated Paper Production Line
In recent years, the corrugated box packaging industry has changed significantly. The equipment speed of the production line is becoming faster and faster. In the past, the speed of 100m/min and 150m/min has been called high speed. But now, the speed of 200m/min and 300m/min have been realized.
How to save energy more intelligently and produce high-quality products at the same time is the biggest challenge faced by carton factories, especially those with corrugated paper production line. Many practical application examples in the paperboard factory have confirmed that the web guide control system can play a significant role in reducing the waste paper volume, improving the production speed, and improving the quality of the finished paperboard products in the paperboard factory. It means uniform tension, accurate fit, small trimming and higher speed.
The paperboard factory is equipped with a web guiding control system when the new production line is installed to ensure the improvement of the machine efficiency. The application of the corrugated paperboard web guide and tension control system has brought benefits to many paperboard factories. More and more factories regard the web guide and tension control equipment as the necessary equipment for production line construction.
Configuring The Whole Line Web Guide And Tension Control System To Bring Huge Cost Savings.
Many factories pay more attention to the production loss of defective products but pay less attention to the trimming loss. They think it is inevitable that it is not produced by workers. However, the trimming loss can be greatly reduced through the configuration of the whole line web guide and tension control system.
The web guide and tension control system is to control the real-time monitoring and automatic alignment or centering operation of the single-sided machine, double-sided machine and slitter, so as to reduce the loss caused by the amount of uneven edges and trimming.
Web Guide Control of Single-sided Machine
Monitor the position of the core paper entering the single-sided machine in real-time, controlling the position of the base paper balancer or move the base paper holder in real time. Adjust the consistency between the inner paper and the core paper, and reduce the uneven edge loss.
Web Guide Control of Double-sided Machine
Real-time monitoring of the position of the paper into the double-sided machine, real-time adjust the web guide controller to keep the movement of the pit paperboard consistent with the paper.
Web Guide Control of Slitter
Monitor the position of the paperboard entering the slitter in real time, controlling the mobile slitter to keep consistent with the paperboard in real time.
After configuring the whole line web guide and web tension control system, the loss of edge-leveling is only 1/3 of the manual operation control
Manually control the adjusted edge trimming amount, that is, the length required for paperboard edge trimming is 10-15m. The edge-leveling quantity of the whole line web guide control, that is, the length required for paperboard edge-leveling, is 3-5m.
Professional Web Guide And Tension Control System Manufacturer – Arise
Arise is one of the leading manufacturers of web guide and tension control system. It can provide comprehensive solutions to the web guide problems from the processing of textile, paper, corrugated cardboard, plastic film, rubber, tire, metal film and non-woven fabric and other materials. Arise has accumulated rich experience and knowledge in the production process of corrugated cardboard, from standard basic equipment of web guide and tension control to the new generation of automatic detection and intelligent production line quality control management system, which has brought great help to the corrugated paperboard factories and help them save huge production costs.