ORANO, a major player in the nuclear industry, commissioned Audace to create an application for thermal insulation specialists working in nuclear power plants. The goal of the application is to digitize the creation of insulation plans, which were previously done on paper.
Application content
The Calorifuge Application project includes the study, design, and development of an operational application. It allows users to create a plan on an isometric sheet and display its rendering in 3D. The application incorporates augmented reality to enable comparison with the actual piping present on-site.
Once the insulation has been designed, the workshop that fabricates them receives the order directly from a web interface that collects the various designed insulations.
The application is therefore divided into two parts:
- A “field” part available on smartphones and tablets that allows users to design insulation and send it to the “workshop” part.
- A “workshop” part accessible via a web interface that provides access to the data collected in the field.
Accessibility to Digital Training
The system is usable via a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 3 Enterprise version. It operates on Android 11, and the web component is accessible through various browsers (Internet Explorer 11, Chrome Blink 92, Firefox 88.0, etc.).
Interfaces and Features
- For the field part: The user has access to an isometric view as well as a menu allowing them to choose from several icons representing different components of piping. They can draw using a stylus while being assisted by the application, which corrects their lines (to ensure they are straight and follow the layout of the sheet). The application offers additional specification options such as specifying the angle of the elbow, the pipe diameter, the fluid direction, the type of insulation, etc. Finally, the user can project their creation in augmented reality.
- For the workshop part: The user has access to a list of all the requests that have been sent to them. Each request can be accepted or declined and has a field to track its progress. All users have a calendar with accepted requests, which can then be incorporated into a design schedule. The piping details in an order can be viewed in 3D directly from the web interface.
Application pedagogy
The project is a business application directly used in production. It centralizes and facilitates data exchange between insulation technicians and workshops. This enables the consolidation of all necessary data for the fabrication of insulation in a single application. As a result, the process of creating insulation is accelerated, and information loss is avoided.
