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AIMEX PREVIEW Complete Mine Operator Training System Immersive Technologies will display what it describes as the world's first complete mine operator training system. The new system incorporates the company's advanced equipment simulators. Features of the new training system include: • A training model blending eLearning, instructor-led training, and medium and high fidelity simulators with a customized content and curriculum—designed to ensure high levels of staff readiness, operational improvement and trainee output in a cost-effective manner. • SimCloud technology offering mining operations complete visibility of local or global simulation training programs via a secure website. • Global operator benchmarking tools so mining operations can benchmark their equipment operators against global norms based on data captured from more than 23,000 operators. • A trainer productivity station designed to alleviate the industry shortage of experienced trainers. • SimDesktop, allowing trainers and managers to use, anywhere and anytime, their Immersive Technologies' simulator data analysis and scenario configuration tools. • SimMentor facilities for briefing before simulation training sessions, and debriefing afterward to help increase training effectiveness and free up simulator time. "This is the mining industry's most advanced, complete and scalable solution for mining equipment operator development," said Immersive Technologies' Global Events Manager Ashley Mullaney. "AIMEX attendees will be able to experience the results of years of dedicated R&D;, collaboration with hundreds of users of the industry's largest installed fleet of advanced equipment simulators, and exclusive partnerships with leading OEMs, including Caterpillar, Hitachi, Komatsu, Liebherr and P&H; Mining." The new system is supported by Immersive Technologies' training consultants, backed by a mining operator development best practice R&D; team. Immersive Technologies will be at stand 3120. down cutting allowed the cutter teeth to gain penetration without using the machine's tractive effort to drive the teeth into the minerals. As the unit travels forward and the drum rotates, the teeth on top of the drum advance over the top of the mineral surface. As the teeth come down toward the mineral surface, they make contact to instantly cut the material into uniform-sized product. Producing material in a uniform configuration allows minerals to be handled more efficiently than product produced by drilling and blasting. The uniform product size also allows more efficient settings on secondary and tertiary crushing systems, savings that can continue well past the primary crushing stage. Precision excavation with the use of a Vermeer Terrain Leveler SEM produces a Continuous Surface Mining The first Terrain Leveler SEM was developed when Vermeer took a rock trencher, removed the trencher attachment, and added a patented tilt-head milling attachment with top-down cutting action. Topwww.e-mj.com JULY 2013 • E&MJ; 57