ThoroughTec Simulation, the world’s leading supplier of advanced, mine workforce training technologies, will be ‘breaking new ground’ at MINExpo in Las Vegas, this September.
The mine has recently purchased another CYBERMINE Full Mission Simulator (FMS) from ThoroughTec Simulation, this time for the training of Caterpillar D10T dozer operators. This simulator compliments their existing system for the training of Taiyuan Heavy Industries, WK55 rope shovel operators, which was the first of its kind in the world.
Re-affirming their position as one of China’s leading underground contract miners, Beijing-based JCHX Mining Management is expanding its Miyun County mining training centre. In one of the biggest mining simulator deals of 2015, the company will purchase five new CYBERMINE training simulators from ThoroughTec Simulation, who continue their expansion in the Chinese market.
Vedanta’s Hindustan Zinc Limited, which is one of the world’s largest integrated producers of zinc-lead, recently received high-fidelity training simulators from ThoroughTec Simulation. Their Rampura Agucha operation in Rajasthan, India, took delivery of three fourth-generation CYBERMINE simulators to assist in operator training as they move underground.
Assmang’s Black Rock manganese operation in the remote Northern Cape province of South Africa is expanding its training simulation capacity to increase safety and productivity levels. Black Rock’s training team recently completed factory acceptance testing of their new CYBERMINE simulator for an Atlas Copco 235-H bolter at global training simulator provider ThoroughTec Simulation.
Blast-hole drill rig operators often have to work with an outside assistant and ThoroughTec have catered for this by creating an artificially intelligent mine worker that works in the 3D virtual world while the operator is training in the simulated cab.
With workforce health and safety a top priority, Red Lake invested in a fourth-generation CYBERMINE simulator made by global training simulator provider ThoroughTec Simulation. This was to help them not only maintain and improve safety levels but also productivity. The containerised system started being put to good use toward the end of 2013 and is proving to be a valuable part of the mine’s training and evaluation programme.
With the demand for training simulation growing in the mining industry, the need to simulate equipment from a major OEM such as CAT is becoming more and more crucial.
The Rio Tinto Block Cave Knowledge Centre of Excellence at Northparkes Mine has been officially opened, and features a state-of-the-art CYBERMINE4 underground mining simulator.
ThoroughTec Simulation has been building military simulators for over 20 years, earning its stripes engineering armoured vehicle, tank and aerospace simulators.
Anglo American’s Peace River Coal Mine has taken a giant leap forward in enhancing their strategic abilities by improving operator competency, safety and productivity.
