Liebherr
LiSIM is Liebherr’s marine crane simulator, which the manufacturer claims will increase port safety and productivity. The company said the development of this training tool was driven by its experience in crane driver training. Approved by training experts, the range of simulated cranes includes ship to shore, rubber tyre gantry, mobile harbour and offshore cranes.
Liebbherr said the installation of original Liebherr drive systems, software and hardware guaranteed a realistic training experience. The drive systems reproduce all crane movements exactly both in space and in real-time. The company said that LiSIM was the only realistic virtual solution available in the market for learning the precise handling of Liebherr’s maritime cranes and their features.
The driver’s cabin and control panel is ergonomically designed. Whilst a motion platform ensures that the driver in a Liebherr simulator cabin experiences realistic movement, which mimics precisely the response and feel of a crane-mounted driver’s cabin and seat. Full High Definition flat screen monitors and high quality surround sound speakers reproduce the views and sounds typically experienced in the cabin.
Liebherr simulators come in three configurations. The classroom solution can be integrated into existing training centres with the display, seat and controls mounted on a base and a display frame. The cabin solution ensures that the trainee operator becomes familiar with controlling the crane in a real life environment. The manufacturer described the training aid as being easy to transport because it fits in a 40ft container. Each of the three models is equipped with multifunctional instructor stations.
NACB
NACB’s Interactive Educational Systems (NACB-IES) are a set of training programs that educate operators on how to use cranes using a range of tools including simulators. NACB said that with its simulator one of its clients had been able to combine Phase I and Phase II training, which combined two classes into one therefore decreasing training days.
The firm said this gave them a saving of 16 hours per employee and the company train approximately 1,500 employees per year predominantly in Phase II training. The projected savings are 16,000 hours or 2,000 man-days at 8 hours per day.
Under this new program the number of instructors has also been reduced as well as the number of classroom hours required for the remaining instructors. Amongst the different simulators available are a mobile telescopic boom crane simulator, an overhead bridge crane simulator and a tower crane simulator.
NACB-IES also offers a desktop version of its training simulators. The crane type comes with a touch screen processor and monitor, one system module and joysticks. This type of devices is available in all the different crane types offered by the company.
NACB-IES simulators can be bundled with a complete customer care package that the company says protects its customers investment. These packages offer on-site installation, training, hardware maintenance and ongoing software updates.
