PPG Virtual Reality Paint Booth


Tuesday, April 8, 2025
to Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Team members required: One

Description:

The competitor will use a Virtual Reality (VR) paint booth to simulate painting.

References:

None

Tools and equipment list:

None

Instructions:

A) When it’s your turn, announce your team name/number, as well as your name, and disinfect your hands using the provided alcohol gel dispenser.

B) Approach the flat screen display and accept the VR paint gun from the PPG operator.

C) Spray the panel on the VR display using good painting techniques to achieve a consistent target film thickness of 3 – 7 wet mils while minimizing overspray.

D) Each participant will be allowed 7.5 total minutes to spray one panel for practice, receive the evaluation of that panel, and then spray a second panel to earn a score.

E) The scored test panel can be reattempted from scratch up to two times, but each retry subtracts 2 points from your score, and you MUST use the final retry score. You do not get to choose the highest score of all your attempts.

F) Tell the operator when you are finished.

Scoring:

Performance results are calculated using a weighted average of 90% target film coverage and 10% transfer efficiency. Final scores are calculated according to the following formula:

Score = (100 – Performance Result)*30 seconds

Example: Where the Performance Result is 86.0 (the 2023 average), Score = (100-86.0)*30 = 420 seconds.

For More Information:

Connie Little

PPG Aerospace