Simulation in development of skilled and competent operators

• Main Authors: Sangaran, S., Raju, R., Haron, S., Yassin, I. M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian Research Publishing Network 2017
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/75388/1/SaharudinHaron_SimulationinDevelopmentofSkilledandCompetenOperators.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/75388/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020117350&partnerID=40&md5=4e7737432c950c95635cd9fdfec2b604
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Modelling and Simulation helps industry to get information about how something will behave without actually testing it in real life in real industry scenario which will incur cost. One can compress the time frame, and study the behaviour of a scenario without engaging it. The use of this within engineering is well recognized. It became necessity or need in an industry. It plays various roles, from fulfilling the requirement in front end task up to furnishing the needed areas in back end task. In a petrochemical plant especially in Ethylene crackers, training operators to operate plant safely and consistent is a need. Highernumber in employees 'migration does play a role in a need of training simulator. When an operator with many years of experience left the company, he brings with himself a valuable portion of knowledge and data and training new personnel will incur money and time cost. The training of ethylene plant new operators now need to rely on senior operators experiences from different plant life cycle and will vary with different trainers. Need of simulation that can represent the real world scenario is a mandatory to give a valuable training experience and loss of billions dollars can be avoided.