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MARITIME SIMULATION time is better positioned to deliver a grades in simulation, a new waterside and promoted to higher paying jobs ci? c bridge.

full training package to their clients. lifeboat training facility, and a recently within the ? eet. To do this we partner with speci? c “Our longstanding relationship with a expanded Main Campus,” said Captain This has not only resulted in higher clients to get the equipment and main- shipping client has expanded over the Morley. “This investment will soon be retention, but higher ef? ciency as these tenance upgrades, entering an exclusive years to include not only training for followed by an additional project due to crews are already familiar with the ves- loop which helps them and their clients, their employees, but also assessments break ground in 2019.” sels, the company, and the operations. said Mackay. of their mates and captains. This investment support MPT’s broad Having the range of courses that MPT In addition, we can work with clients

This includes bridge resource man- client base, which includes offshore has allows them to single source all the to speci? cally model their past mis- agement, engine resource management, oil and gas, cruise ships, ferries, mega training, and work to ensure it ful? lls takes, allowing the people on the bridge candidate assessments and evaluations; yachts, ? shing vessels, commercial the non-regulatory company speci? c to step into the simulator and live or all of these programs use our campus deep draft and commercial inland. “All goals as well.” re-live something that happened in real simulators. of those (industry sectors) ebb and ? ow The Resolve Training Academy life.

In addition, a multi-year contract in- at different rates; for example the con- counts its ? exibility, particularly the The Resolve Training Academy fea- cluded use of our simulators for devel- tainer and short sea shipping business is ? exibility of its main bridge to run tures a NT Pro 5000 Class A Full Mis- opment of a study for the Coos Bay area moving well right now. multiple software platforms, as a key sion Navigational Simulator with 220 with multiple industry partners, agen- Captain Morley said that MPT’s cli- plank in its ability to serve a diverse degrees FOV on the main sim and 220 cies, and local pilots participating in the ents are looking at ways to not only and discerning client base. The Re- on the bridge wing, a bridge wing which exercises.” satisfy the regulatory requirements, solve’s Full Mission Ship Simulator can can dock port or starboard.

Investment is not limited to the uni- but also increase retention within their be re-con? gured in step with a speci? c Resolve in investing in a visual up- versities, as explained by Captain workforce. “One of our clients is a company’s needs, and in fact Resolve grade for the main bridge, a new 1920 x

Morley. “As you know, MPT has just global leader in the ? shing industry and aspires to incorporate the real equip- 1200 laser phosphor projection system ? nished a $6m renovation and expan- has worked with MPT to develop a pro- ment controls from the OEMs versus which is scheduled to be delivered and sion project with new technology, up- gram in which their crews are trained generic controls that come with a spe- online toward the end of March 2018.

Photo: Kongsberg Digital

Kongsberg Digital & ‘Simulation as a Service’

At press time Kongsberg Digital signed is already set to improve and extend the ? eld. While distance learning is not new, lation-based courses. With cloud-based the British Columbia Institute of Technolo- use of simulation in power engineering the ability to run a fully dynamic thermal training, instructors can assign exercises gy (BCIT) as a pilot-customer for the cloud- training. power plant in real time from the cloud to students who can complete them any- based application of the K-Sim simulation “We have been providing distance learn- certainly is. In an instant, we now have the time and anywhere. The training provider technology, making BCIT among the ? rst ing services for many years so appreciate ability to extend our classroom beyond the can complement traditional simulator to offer simulation as a service by inte- the bene? ts for both the market and our con? nes of our Burnaby campus for power training in the center with training beyond grating K-Sim with the new Kognifai digital instructors,” said Brian Buckley, Associate engineering without instructors needing physical con? nes and opening hours.

platform, effectively enabling its students Dean of Industrial and Mechanical Trades, to leave the premises.” The new tool is intended to result in more to train anytime and anywhere. School of Energy at the BCIT Burnaby In addition to the K-Sim Engine TPP, the cost-effective packages for Kongsberg

To start, Kongsberg Digital will focus Campus. ? rst maritime engine room simulators will customers while maximizing and creating on enabling students at BCIT’s School of “The Kognifai-based K-Sim Engine Ther- soon be running in the Kognifai cloud envi- new revenue streams. Kognifai enables

Energy to use the K-Sim Engine Thermal mal Power Plant simulator represents a ronment, extending the K-Sim product of- portfolios of exercises to be downloaded

Power Plant (TPP) simulator for industrial/ digital disruption that we see as bene? t- fering from traditional classroom and full- and shared within the training organiza- utilities engineers, by giving access to the ing BCIT and our customers, both within mission simulators to include self-study tion. Ultimately, this ability to share con- simulator on their own devices. However, our mainstream power engineering pro- training where students can use their own tent will make exercises of higher quality the train anytime and anywhere strategy grams and our industrial activity out in the computers to access high quality, simu- available to the students.

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