2024-02-16 13:36:31
With virtual reality, Aperam BioEnergia triples training capacity and increases safety in the field
Training an employee to operate large machines in the field requires time, money and strict safety precautions. At Aperam BioEnergia, practical classes are necessary for a new employee to be able to drive the Feller Buncher, equipment that carries out the mechanized harvesting of eucalyptus in the company’s renewable forests, in the Jequitinhonha Valley Minas Gerais
Simulator developed by Aperam BioEnergia improves operations performance, in addition to generating time savings and fuel savings
Determined to reduce this time and improve training performance, Aperam BioEnergia developed a simulator that uses virtual reality to accurately represent field conditions, where employees can practice commands and actions necessary for the operation without having to travel to the forests, which are located in difficult to access locations, until you are properly trained.
Reduction in training time
With the new technology, the total training time for a Feller operator decreased by 50%, from six to three months. And the time that the Feller needs to be out of operation to be used by the new employee has been reduced to 40 hours.
Reducing the skilled labor bottleneck
“Until now, with the difficulty of finding qualified labor and the distances and machine hours outside the operation we had, we have not been able to train more than seven operators per year. With the simulator, this number might be at least tripled”, says Mayara Araújo Ferreira, Mechanical Maintenance coordinator at Aperam BioEnergia.
Zero fuel consumption
According to her, the equipment was developed in partnership with startup Studio Haus and also brought important gains in performance, safety for employees and the environment, since much of the training will now be carried out on a device that does not consume fuel.
Aperam BioEnergia’s Forest Harvest supervisor, Silvano Gomes Luiz, says: “Seeing this robust project become reality makes me very happy. Not only the instructor wins, but also the company and the employee being trained”, he celebrates.
The executive manager of Maintenance and Harvest at Aperam BioEnergia, Geraldo Vitor de Andrade Júnior, states that investing in new technologies is one of the essential values of the company, which is fully inserted in the concept of industry 4.0 – a model in which digital technologies favor the creation of new production methods in global industries based on work automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, internet of things and data intelligence.
“It is important to say, however, that innovation is not limited to the development of new technologies, but also occurs with the evolution of organizational culture, customs, ways of relating and selection processes and care for people”, says Geraldo Vitor.
About Aperam BioEnergia
A Aperam BioEnergia is currently the largest producer of charcoal in the world. Located in Vale do Jequitinhonha, the company supplies renewable fuel for the production of Aperam Steel, at the Timóteo steel mill, in Vale do Aço, in Minas Gerais. In addition to charcoal, Aperam BioEnergia is a reference in technology and development of clean energy in the forestry industry.
Through its planted eucalyptus forests, the company develops and sells genetically improved seedlings and seeds, equipment that it points out that it developed internally, such as the gas burner and the FAP 2000 oven, the largest in the world.
It also stands out in the circular economy, having become in 2022 the first in Latin America to sell carbon removal credits, with the application of biochar to the soil of its planted forests. BioEnergia also produces co-products such as bio-oil, which is helping the industry replace the use of petroleum fuel in its systems.
Thanks to carbon sequestration from BioEnergia forests, Aperam South America became the first steel company in the world in the special flat steel segment to achieve a carbon neutral balance in scopes 1 and 2.
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