The aircraft deicing training simulator that ForgeFX developed for Global Ground Support was recently installed at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The 3D simulator is a computer-based virtual training simulation system that provides an operator with the ability to practice and take a “performance test”, while performing a virtual aircraft deicing event in a 3D environment.
Aircraft Deicing Training Simulator at Ramstein Air Base
Air Force Staff Sgt. William Carter, 721st Aerial Port Squadron, instructs Chief Master Sgt. Martin S. Klukas, command senior enlisted leader, U.S. Transportation Command on the deicing simulator while Air Force Gen. William M. Fraser III, commander, U.S. Transportation Command looks on during their tour to the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
ProMiner Shovel Operator Training Simulator Demo Video
The ProMiner Shovel Operator Training Simulator, a 3D simulator developed by ForgeFX for P&H Mining, increases your company’s bottom line by producing an extremely well trained workforce. Operators become experts in moving more material in less time, significantly increasing the mine’s productivity. The training simulator allows both novice and veteran operators to train in a safe virtual environment, where mistakes become valuable lessons instead of costly mishaps. Training simulators lead to less real-world machine downtime for operator training, and higher overall efficiency levels, by providing a realistic virtual training environment where techniques can be mastered quickly and safely.
ForgeFX, a proud partner of P&H Mining Equipment, a division of Joy Global Inc., specializes in the development of custom 3D training simulators.
MODSIM World 2013, a multi-disciplinary international Modeling and Simulation Conference and Exposition, begins on April 30th in Hampton Roads, Virginia. MODSIM World is a multi-disciplinary conference for the exchange of modeling and simulation knowledge, research and technology across industry, government and academia.
Areas of focus at the conference and exposition include:
Defense
Healthcare/Medicine
Engineering & Applied Science
Information Assurance and Cyber Warfare
Cross-Cutting Applications in Modeling and Simulation
Education/Workforce Development
Transportation, and Manufacturing.
The event includes a tour of the NASA Langley Research Center, NASA's oldest field center. Langley Research Center primarily focuses on aeronautical research and is responsible for a number of technology breakthroughs, including the development of the Lunar Landing Facility, that enabled NASA to simulate the effects of lunar gravity.
Conference Highlights Include:
Education and Workforce Development Track: “Teaching STEM through Modeling, Simulations and Games in Education”.
Defense Track: "Senior Leaders Perspective on Modeling and Simulation".
Healthcare and Medicine Track: “An Examination of the use of Simulation for Improving Healthcare Logistics, Learning, Knowledge, and Skills”.
Homeland Security and Cyber Analytics Track: “Modeling, Simulation and Risk Analysis”.
Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics Track: “Simulation-Based Adaptive Decision Support in a Shipyard Environment”.
For more information about this modeling and simulation conference and exposition visit the MODSIM World 2013 web site.
Fircroft, a leading provider of technical recruitment services for the Oil and Gas industries, has an opening for an Operator Training Simulator Supervisor in Houston, Texas. The role is a full time contractor position, that requires 5+ years of Oil and Gas industry and Information Technology experience.
Job Description: Management of Operator Training Simulator (OTS) to ensure that all OTS trainers receive adequate training in all aspects of OTS operation, appropriate to their responsibilities and disciplines, so that the necessary level of competence Plant Operations and Maintenance personnel will be achieved. Ensuring information, data and systems contained in the OTS are accurate and 'up-to-date' with the LNG Plant equipment and processes. To develop training 'scenarios', training material, programs, schedules and delivery methodologies that ensure Plant Operations and Maintenance personnel are competent to perform their respective job/positions tasks and functions. This is a supervisory position, the incumbent is expected to orient, train and develop OTS Trainers on the team; provide appropriate coaching, guidance and supervision.
P&H Mining Equipment, an operating subsidiary of Joy Global Inc., hired ForgeFX to develop a custom virtual training simulator for their electric rope shovels. P&H Mining designs and manufactures mining equipment for the worldwide mining industry. This training simulator improves operator efficiency, reduces training and associated equipment damage costs, and increases revenue by maximizing operator efficiency. ForgeFX's custom 3D training simulators deliver hands-on learning experiences and simulated practice sessions, teaching the skills required to operate heavy equipment quickly and safely, increasing job site productivity. Operator Training Simulator
The shovel training simulator helps operators learn to safely move more material in less time, maximizing a mining operation's bottom-line. The simulator allows operators to master the controls of the equipment, as well as the spatial relations challenges posed by the mining environment, before they ever step foot in a mine site. The training simulator can quickly and safely produce operators that will have fewer accidents, preform their jobs faster, and work more confidently. With this highly efficient workforce in place, mining operations are able to move more materials in less time, reducing their cost of production, and leading directly to an increase in profit.
If you're in the business of developing and selling medical
devices, you're all too aware of the difficulties of demonstrating your product
to prospective customers. Sure you can hook it up to a live patient that is
suffering from the ailment that your device helps to treat, but that's not
very convenient when you're on a sales call or the floor of a conference hall.
Medical device simulators, a proven tool for training, are excellent when it
comes to demonstrating your product. Virtual medical device simulators allow
you to demonstrate your product to anyone, anywhere, and at any time - critical
features for any sales person.
CAE Healthcare recently announced that they had sold their 1,000th iStan patient simulator to the Paris Simulation Center at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. This patient simulator costs approximately $150k and can be programmed to mimic medical conditions by displaying typical symptoms, and then responding to treatment. Includes realistic:
Bodily fluids and secretions
Jugular vein distention
Lung, heart, and bowel sounds
Articulated skeletal structure
It's common knowledge that you can have the greatest
product in the world, but without an effective sales and marketing effort in place,
you're success is far from guaranteed. If you're selling pens it's no problem
to demonstrate your product under any circumstances,but if your product is a piece of equipment
that works in conjunction with a human body suffering from a disease, it's a
lot harder to show someone how it works. This is where virtual simulators
come into play, by providing the means to quickly and effectively show a lead
your product in action, can directly lead to more sales.
Global Industry Analysts Report: Demand for Innovative and Efficient Surgical Systems Drives the Global Market for Virtual Reality in Healthcare.
Global Industry Analysts (GIA) recently announced the release of a global report on virtual reality in the healthcare industry. The report determines that the demand for simulation-based medical training will drive the market for virtual reality in healthcare, and projects that the global market for healthcare simulator-based training will reach US$2.43 billion by the year 2018. The report also points to the ever-increasing performance and reliability of training simulators, the decreasing cost of high-power computing, and the current adoption rate of virtual reality technology in the healthcare sector over the past decade.
Within the medical industry, the need to improve training and efficiency while reducing costs is as important as in any other industry. Virtual training simulators are one of the most effective methods to provide the necessary training and instruction, while removing many of the barriers to entry due to cost and risk.
The report is titled "Virtual Reality in Healthcare - A Global Strategic Business Report" and includes comprehensive analytics for the United States, Asia-Pacific, Canada, Europe, Japan, and 'The Rest of the World'. The report provides historic data for an insight into market evolution, growth drivers, market challenges, key issues, technology trends, and recent product innovations. The report also includes annual sales estimates and projections for the global market for the next 6 years (present - 2018).
Montefiore Medical Center: "Criterion-Based (Proficiency) Training to Improve Surgical Performance"
A recent report title "Criterion-Based (Proficiency) Training to Improve Surgical Performance" completed by Montefiore Medical Center is available from the Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. The report determines that current requirements for surgical proficiency do not properly address the individual surgical capabilities of students, and that simulation-based training could vastly improve the skills of these surgeons-in-training before they ever operate on a living patient. The study's Principle Investigator, Dr. Marvin P. Fried, MD, FACS, University Chairman Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Montefiore Medical Center says:
"We have been studying this subject since 2000 and the results of each of our studies have shown that technical abilities are highly individualistic, skill levels progress at varying speeds. Simulation training is an invaluable tool in creating a competent surgeon in a safe and controlled environment, which ultimately helps to ensure patient safety and produce the best outcomes."
Surgical simulators allow for additional training without the need for live patients and operating rooms, vastly improving healthcare safety and efficiency.
3D Heartbeat Simulator Visualizes Pulsation and Disease
The National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center in Osaka, Japan recently released a virtual heartbeat simulator running on typical off-the-shelf laptops, that is capable of simulating complex pulsations of the heart. Until now, accurately simulating heart pulsation in real-time 3D has taken offline super-computers to complete the job. With technology speed and power always increasing, off-the-shelf lap tops and gaming software-based simulators are now able to get the job done online, faster and more effectively.
Using a shape matching technology the software divides the heart into 7,000 individual shapes with bounding edges and constraints. The simulator allows trainees to simulate virtual heart attacks and heart diseases and take cross sections to examine and study a complex organ under a variety of conditions.
Medical training simulators can now provide highly realistic virtual learning environments that are safe and cost-effective, and allow for repeated practice-until-perfect, increasing the skill and proficiency of future surgeons. Training simulators include operator performance metric tracking systems, allowing trainees and instructurs to quickly identify what areas they need to focus on. In additional, sales and marketing staff can benefit from having a virtual product to demonstrate, rather than having to schedule real-world demonstrations on live patients.
ForgeFX is a training simulator software development company based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. We provide custom application development services for clients looking to create PC-based interactive training applications, using high-fidelity 3D graphics. Our clients compete in the mining, aerospace, transportation, construction, health care, education, and pharmaceutical industries.
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