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Abstract

A method of monitoring an industrial process by means of an ear protection system having an ear protection unit with a left speaker and a right speaker includes obtaining a direction from which a sound is to be provided based on an angle between a coordinate system defined by the ear protection unit and a coordinate system defined by an industrial process environment of the industrial process, and on a location of the origin of the coordinate system of the ear protection unit in the coordinate system of the industrial process environment relative a location of an industrial process component in the coordinate system of the industrial process environment; obtaining real-time process variable data relating to at least one process variable of the industrial process component; and providing a 3-d sound that simulates an origination from the direction by means of at least one of the left speaker and the right speaker, which 3-d sound is indicative of a state of the industrial process component, wherein the 3-d sound simulates a realistic sound of the at least one process variable, reflecting a real-time state of the at least one process variable. An ear protection system carrying out the method is also presented herein.

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