Creative Visualisation

Photo-realistic visuals enable those viewing the images to better understand the content, bringing proposed developments to life, engaging with stakeholders, and giving opportunities to refine your design while costs are relatively low.

Using commercial game development technology, our virtual commissioning and industrial simulations power and drive digital twins of robots and electro-mechanical mechanisms – such as industrial robots, mast manipulators and bridge cranes – with huge benefits for operator training and virtual commissioning. 

We have developed our own single and dual 6-axis industrial robot training simulator, utilising realistic Inverse Kinematics for teleoperation, to allow operators to drive the virtual robots in Axis, World and Tool-Centre-Point (TCP) mode.  This is available for demonstration now in our office at Lillyhall.

We also have a Mast Manipulator and Bridge Crane simulators in our development pipeline, with the Mast Manipulator Simulator scheduled to be demonstratable in Q4 2023.

Using commercial game development technology, your audience can virtually stand, sit, walk, look-around and interact within your plant, project or process, giving a real sense of immersion and scale that cannot be achieved by other tools.

Many processes are developed within Mechanical Flow Diagrams (2D block diagrams), consisting of sequential blocks of text describing start conditions, inputs, activities, and outputs.  With the best endeavours and multiple reviews, complex processes can still be difficult to understand and optimise using 2D drawing tools.  Animating the same process brings it to life and makes understanding and optimisation so much easier so that bottlenecks can be identified, opportunities for parallel or multi-tasking explored and significant improvements made, all before the process is built, let alone even in operation.

By example, we produced an animation of a filter change operation which must be carried out remotely, in a nuclear environment.  We accurately modelled the relevant equipment, and noticed a filter lid park stand, whose sole function is to provide temporary support to a filter lid which had a mass of 99kg.  The park stand material was specified as S355 high-strength structural steel, and had an approx. mass of 96kg. 

Without going into design detail, there was a large bearing (or contact) area between the two parts, such that a relatively low compressive strength material would be adequate (with significant spare capacity) to support the filter lid.  Manufacturing the filter lid park stand from steel (regardless of the grade) would necessitate the use of lifting equipment to move it into place, including the use of lifting eyes, being screwed in for lifting, and then removed prior to operation, by operators in suits and respirators, wearing double gloves, due to the radiological contamination hazard. 

We suggested a change of material, to an engineering plastic, such as nylon or polypropylene.  These could easily include machined ‘hand-holes’ to enable lifting and carrying, eliminating the need for lifting equipment, and therefore greatly reducing the time to carry out the task, and therefore the radiation dose uptake to the operator.

All of our products and services can utilise your existing 3D CAD models and 2D drawings, equipment manufacturer’s 3D & 2D CAD data, point cloud survey datasets, or be created natively by us, building physically accurate virtual models and digital twins.  We utilise ‘game engine’ modelling workflows that ensure that models produced by us are optimised for high quality, no-lag virtual reality experiences.

Using commercial drones, our drone operators can produce high-quality aerial film and photography including cinematic flyovers and pan shots. This can be utilised for aerial surveys or cinematic, attention-grabbing clips of your company’s premises.

All our drone operators are CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) qualified.