Simformotion, a heavy equipment simulator training company, has announced the release of the new Cat Simulators System, SimLite excavator. The new portable system allows instructors and learners to utilize the training inside of the classroom at socially distanced stations or travel off-site with users.
Set in a city construction environment, the system teaches heavy equipment operation skills for the excavator.
“We’ve heard from schools, training centers and businesses—they have to keep training, despite the pandemic. So that meant engineering a design compact enough that it could travel easily in pelican cases; or be set up in classrooms at a safe distance,” says Simformotion CEO Lara Aaron.
SimLite is built on a standardized platform and designed as a self-contained educational tool deployed through hardware and software that does not require internet connectivity to use the system. SimLite includes exercises that teach how to perform a walkaround inspection, principles of loading, raking, maneuvering the machine, and trenching. Plus, an open training mode in each exercise offers opportunities for additional practice, skill refinement, and recreating site-specific scenarios for training.
To accompany SimLite, a complete curriculum is available online. It can be used in the classroom or for remote learning.