APPLICATIONS

High-fidelity Vortex simulations have revolutionized the heavy-equipment training world, putting ultra-realistic motion and equipment behaviour into the hands of operators and OEMs to improve skills, safety, and operator efficiency, while lowering equipment maintenance costs.

Driving piles, pouring concrete, hoisting loads or driving on rough terrain – Vortex can simulate the toughest heavy equipment operations with reliability and accuracy.

Vortex SDK Provides the Engine for Heavy Equipment Simulations

High-quality training simulations demand realism – and the Vortex toolkit equips designers and operators with the best fidelity in the industry for fully fledged construction, mining and forestry equipment such as cranes, graders and log forwarders. Vortex heavy equipment simulations feature precise emulation of actual machines and vehicles, including drivetrains, wheels, tracks, booms, and cable systems based on exact engineering specifications. With the Vortex engine powering the simulation, students experience the full ramifications of all their actions.

Vortex can be used to simulate tracked and wheeled vehicles with mechanical equipment, trailers, cable systems and shovels.

Vortex Turnkey Simulators Deliver a Complete Training Solution

Vortex heavy equipment simulations provide equipment manufacturers and schools with the ideal training solution that ensures numerous benefits. It is a much safer and cost-effective method to assess novice skills, train more than one student at a time, train in numerous locations day or night, and provide uniform, testable practices. Vortex simulations also save wear and tear on expensive operations equipment and reduce equipment downtime.

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Heavy Equipment for Multiple Industries and Applications

Here is just some of the heavy equipment simulated by Vortex:

• Cranes: Tower, mobile and lattice boom cranes based on actual crane models and with full controls and functionality; port cranes and shipboard cranes for simulation of crane dynamics, cable systems, load dynamics, lift operations, and ship/platform motion
• Construction: Concrete pumps and wheeled or tracked earth-moving equipment like bulldozers, backhoes, graders, and dump trucks
• Forestry: Log harvesters and log forwarders
• Mining: Open-pit extractors, large dump trucks and front-end loaders; specialized underground mining equipment