Virtual Reality Services for Cat® Longwall Mining Systems

Virtual Reality Services
Virtual Reality Services


Improving Operational Efficiency and Safety with Enhanced Training in Virtual Reality

Longwall mining requires a great deal of in-depth, upfront training for operators and service personnel. Longwall mining systems are complex, and in order to operate them safely and productively, operators need hands-on experience.

However, the full system is not always available or operational when operators need to be trained. And once the system is installed and operational, it can be difficult to find time and access to adequately train new personnel without dramatically affecting production. This can be mitigated by video or instructor-led training, but these methods just aren't as effective as hands-on, in-the-iron education.

Caterpillar offers realistic, interactive 3D simulations that can help your operators gain necessary knowledge and experience safely and efficiently.

  

Take your training to the next level

Virtual Reality allows effective and safe training without disrupting production. Trainees can practice and perfect their use of Cat longwall shearers in a highly realistic, immersive environment. The intuitive structure allows trainees to practice all aspects of operation and maintenance, with regular performance reviews. It is affordable, the entire solution ships in a box, and can be set up easily with step-by-step instructions.

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Highly Immersive

Cat Cirtual Reality Training offers realistic, immersive scenarios in which trainees select and use tools or controls to interact with the equipment. Sensors track their position, as well as whether they are standing or kneeling, and translate it into realistic movements in the simulated environment.

Share Lessons Learned

On a separate screen, the teacher and other trainees can watch what's happening in the virtual environment. This allows trainees to share experience and do the work together as a unit.

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Increase Training Efficiency

Increase productivity, lower costs and make work safer.


Train Anywhere

Bring longwall training to your people — instead of bringing the people underground.


Start Operations Faster

Start your longwall training before the system is even installed.

    

Additional Insights and Remote Control

Our virtual longwall gives trainees multiple perspectives, including a bird's-eye view from above the longwall and positions behind the roof supports or at the face. 

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Stretching the Limits of your Experience

The virtual longwall depicts the status of your real longwall equipment with unprecedented clarity. Working status, undulations and misalignments can be examined from angles and perspectives that are impossible to achieve on a real face. Operators can instantly inspect almost any part of the operation, and areas that are too dangerous or difficult to access can be clearly examined.

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See The Benefits:

  • Safe training for high-risk scenarios
  • Comprehensive learning experience — any time, anywhere
  • High level of practical knowledge with no impact on production
  • Faster, more accurate and better informed operator decisions
  • Reduced downtime with early detection of problems
  • High trainee engagement and better retention compared to traditional training methods
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