Even in the early days of computing, businesses were looking at computers as tools for setting up complex simulations. Some credit Keith Douglas Tocher for developing the first discrete-event ...

Having proactively tracked operator performance since 2004, DuPont began to notice a clear trend developing a few years ago. Their operator performance was declining—an issue that coincided with an ...

As the costs of virtual reality (VR) hardware and software have decreased in recent years, the technology’s use within various industries has grown. The heavy equipment industry, for instance, sees ...

Liebherr launched LiSIM for operator training on deep foundation equipment and crawler cranes up to 300 t for the first time at Conexpo 2014 in Las Vegas (USA). The simulator is not only available as ...

Technology developments in alarm monitoring are exciting and can improve the performance of your company. But the success of a central station still depends on the skill of the people staffing it.

Skill levels generally differ between plant operator shifts. Further, these differences often cause divides among the shifts that result in unequal divisions of responsibility. Comprehensive, ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is generating big interest as a technology that makes networks programmable and less expensive to build and operate. SDN is achieved by separating the control and the ...

The soon-to-be-adopted ANSI A92.24 Standard “Training Requirements for the Use, Operation, Inspection, Testing and Maintenance of Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPS)” will hopefully open some eyes ...