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Acknowledgement

hom3r has been developed in the framework of the Use-it-wisely Project


Use it Wisely

Use-it-wisely is a European Union research project, funded under the FP7 framework, which runs from 2013 to 2016. The project draws on the world class knowledge of twenty partners from all over Europe, who are all leaders in their respective fields including: energy, machinery, space, office workspace, vehicles, ship building, furniture, academia, research, dissemination and exploitation.

The project is focused on the end-user. It will enable European manufacturers to produce products and services capable of adapting to rapidly changing markets, the changing business environment, and customer goals by demonstrating the state of the art business model and platform, which enables life-long adaptation of high investment product-service. The adaptation is accomplished by a purposeful and demand-led sequence of innovative continuous product-service upgrades. The project will go through vital steps to ensure a successful outcome. These include: platform development, the design of prototypes, testing of prototypes, demonstration and execution, and key communications and exploitation tasks.
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hom3r

hom3r has been developed in the framework of the Use-it-wisely Project. In particular, hom3r has been integrated as one of the main modules of the collaborative tool implemented by the electric power industry case. This industrial case is composed of three project partners,Tecnatom S.A (a Spanish company that works in inspection and maintenance of power plant machinery), the University of Malaga and the University of Nottingham.

As a collaborative tool, this UiW application consists in a set of interactive views generated from three different data models, see figure 1. The product model contains the geometrical and hierarchical representation of the product (the steam turbine). The service model contains the results of the service (turbine inspection) linked to different areas of the product geometry (the turbine inspection consists in a set of inspections done to different inspection areas). The analysis model consists in a set of collaborative discussions, one for each inspection result.

The preliminary work leading to these results was described in:

  • GONZALEZ-TOLEDO D., CUEVAS-RODRÍGUEZ M., GARRE C., MOLINA-TANCO L., REYES-LECUONA A.:  HOM3R: A 3D Viewer for Complex Hierarchical Product Models. In Proc. EuroVR, 2016.
  • GONZALEZ-TOLEDO D., CUEVAS-RODRÍGUEZ M., GARRE C., MOLINA-TANCO L., REYES-LECUONA A.:  A Tool for Collaborative Decision Making on Service Information Linked to 3D Geometry of Complex Hierarchical Products. In Proc. EuroVR, 2015.
  • REYES-LECUONA A., MOLINA-TANCO L., GONZALEZ-TOLEDO D., FLORES S., FRUTOS E., PATEL H. HOUGHTON R.: Design, Maintenance and Refurbishment of Turbines in a Collaborative Environment. In Proc. AHFE Conference, 2014.