What the 100% locally owned company does is to create simulators that train operators to handle some really big machines, such as dump trucks, graders, continuous miners, drilling rigs and drag lines, and this in an environment that very much simulates the real thing, including dust, fog, rain and slippery roads, with red flags popping up quickly when the operator slips up not only in handling the machine but also in site-specific procedures. ...Schehle says the key in growing the company has been the rapid development of computer technology, which now allows for standard equipment to be used to create a simulator, and no longer the expensive workstations required before." /> reports Engineering News.
What the 100% locally owned company does is to create simulators that train operators to handle some really big machines, such as dump trucks, graders, continuous miners, drilling rigs and drag lines, and this in an environment that very much simulates the real thing, including dust, fog, rain and slippery roads, with red flags popping up quickly when the operator slips up not only in handling the machine but also in site-specific procedures. ...Schehle says the key in growing the company has been the rapid development of computer technology, which now allows for standard equipment to be used to create a simulator, and no longer the expensive workstations required before." />
Over the past five years, simulation training for coal miners at the Kentucky Coal Academy has been using simulators from Fifth Dimension Technologies based out of Pretoria – COO Mario Schehle credits rapid technological development, reports Engineering News.
What the 100% locally owned company does is to create simulators that train operators to handle some really big machines, such as dump trucks, graders, continuous miners, drilling rigs and drag lines, and this in an environment that very much simulates the real thing, including dust, fog, rain and slippery roads, with red flags popping up quickly when the operator slips up not only in handling the machine but also in site-specific procedures. …Schehle says the key in growing the company has been the rapid development of computer technology, which now allows for standard equipment to be used to create a simulator, and no longer the expensive workstations required before.
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Manuel Fernandez Bernal
I think it’s the best way to reduce risks and costs to a mining company