Industry Trends | Promoting the Deep Development of Industry-Education Integration, AR Becomes a Vital Innovation Engine for Vocational Education
2023-05-05 18:08:19

Vocational education is a vital pathway for cultivating diverse talents, preserving technical skills, and facilitating employment and entrepreneurship. However, the traditional teaching approach of "heavy theory, light skills" no longer meets the demands of modern society for skilled professionals.

After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, vocational education has received unprecedented attention, and constructing new models of vocational education and integrating industry and education have become major tasks in this new stage.

As an innovative technology, AR (Augmented Reality) serves as a crucial practical direction for innovating and reforming vocational education.

 

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In response to this, ALVA Systems has introduced the AiR Flexible Intelligent Manufacturing Platform. This platform aims to integrate advanced AR technology with vocational education and training, optimizing the teaching process. It facilitates the simultaneous progression of theory and practice, empowering high-quality development in contemporary vocational education.

AR Visual Guidance

Traditional teaching methods often involve indiscriminate imparting of knowledge to students. Faced with the tedious and extensive course content, students find it difficult to understand and master, resulting in low learning efficiency.

In practical training sessions, due to high equipment costs and limited availability, it is often challenging to meet students' practical operational needs, making it difficult to quickly grasp relevant technologies.

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The introduction of the AiR Flexible Smart Manufacturing Platform breaks the limitations of space and time, creating immersive and interactive training scenarios. This allows students to easily conduct equipment practical training anytime, anywhere, using only mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, or AR glasses.

With clear and intuitive operational guidance and component recognition, students can quickly grasp basic information about the equipment and key operations. This lays a solid foundation for proficient application in future work.

 

AR Digital Twin

In vocational education and training, there are often pain points such as high investment, high losses, and implementation challenges. Students may encounter situations of equipment damage or personal injury during the practical exercises, making vocational education and training more complex and challenging.

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模拟真实产线运行

Leveraging the "Simulated Operation" feature of the AiR Flexible Smart Manufacturing Platform, even when the real equipment is not powered on, students can view and understand specific parameters and information about the normal operation of the production line anytime, anywhere. This not only reduces vocational education consumable costs but also enhances students' operational safety and understanding of technology.

 

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实时驱动产线运行

The "Real-time Drive" feature allows for monitoring the entire production line's operational status and enables specific operations such as placing orders directly through the platform, making production line management more efficient and streamlined.

Moreover, the AiR Flexible Smart Manufacturing Platform can seamlessly integrate with simulation data platforms, bringing simulation results to the actual production site.

AR Equipment Inspection

The troubleshooting and maintenance of equipment on the production line are crucial aspects of vocational training. However, reproducing equipment failures is challenging, and the difficulty level of operations is high. Students often rely solely on videos or PowerPoint presentations for learning, making it challenging to quickly understand and master the methods for resolving equipment malfunctions.

 

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Leveraging the AiR Flexible Smart Manufacturing Platform's Equipment Inspection feature, students can practice equipment inspections and fault repairs in simulated multiple fault scenarios.

Equipment malfunction repair operation manuals are transformed into virtual content such as videos and 3D animations for students to reference and learn efficiently, aiding them in completing fault repair operation training.

In addition, the AiR Flexible Smart Manufacturing Platform enables multi-disciplinary equipment sharing. Students can switch between training scenarios in different disciplines according to their needs, helping them gain more practical knowledge.

The AiR Flexible Smart Manufacturing Platform is ALVA Systems' best practice model for future manufacturing industry employee training in multi-skilled, small-batch, and time-sensitive environments in vocational education.

It integrates multiple disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, software programming, intelligent control, industrial internet, and communication required for robot body and system integration, helping students fully understand and master the entire process of intelligent manufacturing.

The application of the AiR Flexible Smart Manufacturing Platform effectively enhances the operational capabilities of vocational schools, promoting the formation of a batch of replicable, promotable, and high-value demonstration projects in the field of vocational education, providing new ideas for the innovative reform of vocational education.