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Domestic military engines Tuna and Azra will be showcased internationally for the first time

The domestic military land vehicle engines Tuna and Azra, developed within the Turkish defense industry, were introduced for the first time at an international fair.

IDEX International Defense Exhibition and Conference and NAVDEX Maritime Defense and Maritime Security Event were held simultaneously in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

BMC Power, which operates with the aim of minimizing Turkiye’s foreign dependency in power and transmission systems, introduced the engines that it started mass production and continues to develop and new technologies for their maintenance and repair at the fair.

Mustafa Kaval, General Manager of BMC Power, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that this is the first time they have participated in an international fair as a company.

Stating that they exhibited the models of the 400 hp Tuna and 600 hp Azra engines at the fair, Kaval said, “The serial production of the Tuna engine has started and the first 20 engines have been delivered. The number will be completed to 90. We expect to complete all deliveries by the end of May. 400 hp engines will be used in BMC production Vuran vehicles. We continue to work on the design of Kirpi vehicles, and we expect to see the engines in Kirpi vehicles at the end of the year.”

Stating that they plan to use the Azra engine in tank carrier vehicles and that they are making preparations in this direction, Kaval explained that after-sales user training, maintenance and repair trainings are on the agenda as their products have started to appear on the field.

Kaval pointed out that they aim to make their education more efficient by using some new technologies in all these processes, “When the trained personnel go to the engine and put on the augmented reality glasses, we aim to disassemble the engine into all its parts, collect them and go down to the details of the parts one by one, and do whatever a maintenance-repair personnel can do in the maintenance of the engine, whatever he needs to do, through the augmented reality glasses. Thanks to this training, we expect to ensure that the maintenance and repair of the engines in the field is carried out in the most efficient way.”

Informing that they have also established an integrated logistics team with the start of the deliveries, Kaval stated that while preparing the parts catalogs and user books, they also prepared a training concept for maintenance-repair personnel in which increased glasses are used.

Kaval stated that they developed a maintenance-repair training solution based on augmented reality technologies for the Azra engine at the first stage, and that they would add the Tuna, then Utku and Batu engine power groups.

Correct repair the first time

According to the information compiled by the AA correspondent, learning maintenance operations from printed sources requires both a difficult and labor-intensive process. In general, maintenance operations are tried to be learned by gaining experience in the presence of an experienced master trained in the field after receiving basic training. This process reduces the operational efficiency of both the person to be trained and the experienced staff, causing work accidents or prolonging operations. Considering the problems experienced in terms of trained intermediate staff in Turkiye, the need for technical personnel to receive training in a realistic virtual environment is increasing.

The Augmented Reality Based Maintenance Support System, developed by BITES, contributes to the correctness of the repair the first time by keeping the skills and awareness of the maintenance personnel at the highest level.

Thanks to this system, which the company has recently offered to the use of security forces with different examples, technical and operational difficulties in detecting and eliminating malfunctions are overcome with augmented reality.

The maintenance personnel, who can carry out a large number of trainings as close to reality with augmented reality technology, will receive guidance by focusing on the platform on which they will care with augmented reality glasses. These redirects will consist of holographically generated content (written texts, drawings, 3D part models, and so on). In this way, the personnel in charge will be able to follow the instructions regarding the maintenance/assembly scenario to be carried out and apply them step by step in real time, and will be able to view the hardware and its parts in 3D from different angles.

Engines will always be ready with high performance

It will cover all necessary actions in the correct order, including directions, security steps and reminders.

Augmented reality will increase the work performance of maintenance personnel, as well as ensuring that maintenance-repair activities are more optimized, error-free, cost-effective and faster.

With the Augmented Reality Based Virtual Maintenance System, the engines developed by BMC Power will always be kept ready for duty with high performance.

Source: AA / Prepared by Irem Yildiz

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