Immersive Technologies and P&H Mining Equipment have renewed their exclusive alliance for advanced training simulators development. Equipment simulators are to be covered in detail in International Mining’s September issue. This formal Licensing and Technical Information Agreement was renewed to ensure the companies’ respective customers would continue to have access to training simulators that provide a realistic training experience. With this alliance and access to P&H’s confidential machine technical information, Immersive Technologies is committed to ongoing development of its advanced equipment simulators for P&H equipment.
P&H MinePro chose to work exclusively with Immersive Technologies in order to focus its resources on one supplier to provide quality simulated training. Peter Salfinger, CEO of Immersive Technologies said, “Immersive Technologies is proud of its alliance with P&H. This renewal ensures the latest and most accurate training technology and features are engineered into our P&H type simulation products and training solutions for the benefit of our joint customers.”
On July 22, Immersive Technologies announced it had attained a new 12-month record, producing 100 of its advanced simulator modules, or Conversion Kits, during the 2008/09 Financial Year. The 100th Conversion Kit module for the year simulates the operation of a dragline and was completed in June 2009 for customer Peabody Energy in the US.
Immersive Technologies has global exclusive technical and licensing agreements with the five leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM). Through these OEM alliances Immersive gains exclusive access to confidential proprietary technical information which authenticates the simulators and its Conversion Kit machine modules providing the customer with confidence.
Immersive Technologies’ Chief Executive Officer, Peter Salfinger said, “I am extremely proud of all the employees at Immersive for achieving this latest record. It is testament to our company’s continued vision to make every mining and heavy equipment operator in the world safer and their employer more profitable with our simulation technologies. A very positive sign for Immersive has been the high level of repeat purchases from existing customers. They are achieving real results from their AE Simulators, including increased operator safety and reduced costs.”
High levels of attendance at Immersive Technologies’ recent 2009 Americas User Group Forum in Park City Utah, demonstrate the industry’s growing acceptance and reliance on advanced equipment simulator technology, and the company’s ability to continually deliver industry leading training solutions.
With simulation training providing a significant positive impact on safety, productivity and maintenance levels, all indicators point to the continued strong growth for Immersive Technologies.
Immersive Technologies claims to be the world’s leading supplier of operator training simulators used in the mining and earthmoving industries. It has 450 advanced mining equipment simulator modules in 25 countries and says “our Advanced Equipment (AE) Simulators are considered vital to many of the world’s leading mining companies such as BHP Billiton, CVRD and Rio Tinto. From the Congo to northern Canada, mines are increasing safety and reducing their cost per tonne by using our simulators daily to train and test their operators.”
Immersive Technologies has exclusive licensing and technical information alliances with the leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), including: Caterpillar, Hitachi, Komatsu, Liebherr and P&H. Customer support offices are located in Perth and Brisbane Australia, Salt Lake City USA, Calgary Canada, Santiago Chile and Johannesburg South Africa.
