3D Virtual Asset Layout Validation for Industrial Safety Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing industrial environment design methods using 2-dimensional drawings lack interactive experiences and fail to perform standard safety checks before physical implementation, leading to potential accidents and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method for optimizing the design of virtual assets in a simulated environment by importing 3-dimensional models, enriching them with safety standards, and executing safety-simulation scenarios to detect and rectify design flaws before physical installation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If 2-dimensional drawings are used for industrial environment design, then the design process is simple and quick, but the design lacks interactivity and safety checks cannot be performed before physical implementation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from 2-dimensional drawings to 3-dimensional virtual models of the industrial environment. This dimensional change enables interactive exploration of the design before physical implementation, allowing users to navigate and inspect the virtual environment from multiple angles while maintaining safety standards through automated checks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the industrial environment that replicates the physical layout and assets. This virtual replica allows for safe testing and validation of design decisions without requiring physical construction, enabling interactivity and safety verification in the digital domain before committing to physical implementation.
2Reliability
If physical implementation is performed to validate safety standards, then safety compliance can be confirmed, but time and costs are significantly increased
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs safety validation actions in the virtual environment before physical implementation occurs. Automated safety checks, collision detection, and compliance verification are executed on the virtual model, identifying and correcting issues prior to construction. This preliminary validation eliminates the need for time-consuming post-installation safety testing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces physical safety validation with computational safety verification. Instead of physically installing assets and manually checking compliance, the system uses software-based automated safety checks, algorithms, and simulation to verify safety standards in the virtual environment, dramatically reducing validation time and cost.
3Reliability
If design flaws are detected after physical implementation, then safety issues can be identified, but corrections become expensive and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent executes comprehensive safety checks and design validation in the virtual environment before physical construction begins. All potential safety violations, collision risks, and compliance issues are detected and corrected in the digital model, ensuring that the physical implementation proceeds without costly redesigns or rework.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses the virtual copy to identify and resolve design flaws before physical assets are installed. Any safety violations or design errors are detected in the virtual representation, allowing for free modification of the digital model without the expense of dismantling or relocating physical equipment.
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AI summary
A method that imports a simulation of one or more virtual assets into the computer-simulated environment is provided. Further, the simulation is enriched with data corresponding to safety standards associated with the industrial environment. Further, a plurality of safety-simulation scenarios that are to be simulated in the computer-simulated environment for validation of safety standards of the one or more virtual assets are defined. Further, the safety-simulation scenarios are executed on the one or more virtual assets to determine safety violations associated with the one or more virtual assets. Further, one or more inputs are received from a user for optimizing the design of the one or more virtual assets to overcome the determined safety violations. Finally, the design of one or more virtual assets is optimized based on the input received from the user to overcome the safety violations.