Real simulation builds real skills. At CM Labs, we develop the only simulation-based training on the market that accurately simulates critical machine behavior. It’s an essential component of simulation that ensures efficient operator training and skills that transfer to the real equipment.
In the following short video clips, we’ve highlighted machine movements that demonstrate how close to reality CM Labs simulation is, from the backlash effect to boom deflection. Discover how true authentic machine behavior makes the following possible:
Our Backhoe Simulator Training Pack is the only solution on the market that realistically simulates a backhoe’s backlash and instability when stopping a full speed swing.
Thanks to this capability, the Backhoe Simulator Training Pack teaches operators critical transferable skills, such as how to manage the backlash to reduce cycle time, and optimize their productivity.
Experienced dozer operators are skilled at leveling surfaces through fine spreading of materials. Trainees who do not learn this skill using simulation-based training can slow work down when they get to the job site.
Our Dozer Simulator Training Pack is the only solution on the market that teaches complex leveling and grading techniques thanks to most advanced earthmoving simulation that captures blade/dirt interactions within one inch of precision.
Tidying trenches is about more than looking good. It’s critical that your simulator be able to teach trainees this skill, in order to mitigate the risk of trench cave-in, which results in stoppages as well as substantial risk of personnel injury and fatalities.
By using the most advanced soil simulation, the Excavator Simulator Training Pack let operators practice advanced skills, such as cleaning trenches or leveling.
Our Mobile Crane Simulator Training Pack is the only solution on the market that features the crane tipping during heavy lifts.
It allows trainees to operate in a challenging environment where they can explore the capacity and limits of the mobile crane, and safely experience scenarios that are potentially life-altering in the real world.
The motor grader is the most precise piece of equipment when it comes to grading. Skilled operators will constantly adjust the position of the blade to achieve precision grading of a surface.
Our Motor Grader Simulator is the only solution that allows operators to fully manipulate the blade by changing the angle, tilt, and height during operations. In addition, the moldboard can be positioned on the side for complex operations such as V-ditch digging. It allows trainees to learn advanced grading skills that transfer to the real equipment.
Tower crane operators can freeze a work site if they’re not trained to handle loads gently, or with a good understanding of crane capacity. This is why you should ensure that your training solution simulates boom deflection as well as cable slapping due to rough load handling.
Our Tower Crane Simulator Training Pack is the only solution that realistically simulates cable behavior during lifting operations, allowing operators to learn advanced lifting techniques.
Traction control is an important part of ensuring efficient digging, stockpiling and loading applications. Operators need to feel the feedback from the machine interacting with the ground in order to manipulate the controls and respond quickly to the load as well as using the machine at its maximum capacity.
Our Wheel Loader Training Pack is the only training solution on the market that accurately simulates tire traction as well as digging power, allowing operators to learn advanced earthmoving and loading techniques.
Even though steel cables are very tough, they still elongate under the heavy loads they are expected to bear. CM Labs cable simulation takes into account the elongation that cables experience when lifting heavy loads. The crane operator needs to factor this elongation in when lifting objects. Other solutions cannot build this real-world phenomenon into their simulations – and operations miss learning how to compensate for this phenomenon, increasing the risk of an accident.
In the real world, wind speed is rarely zero. Ignoring how wind speed affects crane operation risks vastly underselling the difficulty of operating a crane, resulting in negative training that can have serious ramifications once the trainee enters a real machine. Only with CM Labs’ simulations can novice operators experience authentic machine behavior and learn how wind affects lifts in a safe environment—a critical aspect of preparing trainees for the real deal.
Authentic machine behavior makes a difference in heavy equipment operator training. This is because it provides the most transferable skills available anywhere, outside of real equipment.
Negative training is training based on false information from an inaccurate simulation, causing operators to learn movements and behaviors that require retraining in the field to avoid mistakes. When working with low-quality simulations, this can be a real problem.
Even small details like tire bounciness have an impact on how the machine behaves. When a simulation doesn’t include these details, operators don’t learn to account for them. As a result, they learn habits that aren’t safe on a real worksite. If the simulation of a machine’s movements doesn’t cause it to tip when improperly handled, for example, then an operator may learn maneuvers that could lead to tipping. Fortunately, operators can avoid negative training when they practice and learn with simulations that have authentic machine behavior.
Authentic machine behavior is what makes our simulation-based training an ideal solution for any stage of the workforce management cycle, from assessing new trainees to upskilling experienced operators. It makes objective assessment easier and skills acquisition faster. It also makes our simulations powerful tools for safety training, as operators can safely experience scenarios that are potentially life-altering in the real world.
Learn more about the benefits you can gain from simulation in our ebook “The Benefits of Simulation-Based Training.”
