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The UK's Port of Felixstowe has enlisted Drilling Systems and its KraneSIMTM range of seaport training simulators to help it train and assess its crane operators.
Due for phased delivery in 2005, the Port of Felixstowe's KraneSIM-6000 STS and RTG crane modules are the most advanced training systems available today, Drilling Systems says. They offer fully dynamic rope with stretch, twist and flexibility, high quality graphics, advanced mathematical models and 'whole of scene' collision.
Drilling Systems first established itself in the offshore oil industry crane simulator business. While working with the UK Government's Health & Safety Executive (HSE), it developed a full range of container and cargo handling simulator models.
The Port of Felixstowe approached the company in December 2004 to develop a Seaport Container Crane training simulator.
KraneSIMTM can be used to train individuals or complete crews, including the crane operator, checker station operator and flagman. Crane operators are assessed for their competency in load handling operations and then allocated to either entry level operator or advanced skills operator training.
According to Drilling Systems, the full size simulator is ideal for training personnel in equipment operations and advanced load handling as well as more advanced aspects such as troubleshooting the various crane controls and safety systems including the safe load indicator and the emergency shutdown systems. It can be used by an instructor to demonstrate particular principles and operations of load handling techniques or by trainees for supervised training exercises and or as an independent assessment tool for competency-based practical assessment.
Increasingly, ports and cargo handling companies are demanding certificates of competence for crane operators which, like those in the oil industry, are refreshed on a biennial basis.
The classroom-based KraneSIMTM simulation equipment aims to replicate the real cabin environment whilst eliminating the opportunity for errors during training on the actual dockside cranes.
In addition, the simulator training environment has historically provided trainees with the opportunity to focus on particular aspects of executing and monitoring a loading or backloading process whilst getting to grips with problematic areas that can be experienced safely in a 3D visual world. This achieves a reduction of time-to-job for the trainee crane operator, requiring only marginal topup training on the real crane. Drilling Systems is exhibiting at TOC2005 Europe on Stand C14
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