Operator Training & Simulation

Overview

LOGICAL SYSTEMS Operator Training & Simulation (OTS) gives your operators a safe copy of the plant. They train on the control screens and control logic they use every day, connected to a dynamic model of your process that responds as the plant does: levels, flows, temperatures and pressures move realistically, alarms and interlocks act as they would, and mistakes cost nothing. Built on the Inductive Automation Ignition platform, OTS can run a copy of a plant's own Ignition screens, pointed at the simulator instead of the plant.

Instructors run exercises from a scenario library, from routine start-ups to equipment failures and alarm floods. They inject malfunctions, freeze, rewind and replay, and score each trainee on actions, timing and procedure. Field operators practise rounds and procedures in virtual reality in a 3D model of the plant, and augmented reality guides them on the real equipment. LS Assistant coaches trainees through procedures and explains each debrief, and every result and qualification is recorded in Workforce Enablement.

Models are matched to what operators need to learn: mass and energy balances for batch and utility systems, rigorous thermodynamics for hydrocarbon and chemical processes. Machine-learning surrogates keep complex models faster than real time, and historian data calibrates them against your plant. The same simulator tests control changes, new screens and procedures before they reach production.