Forest Industry Articles
Here we are pleased to present some articles about Simlog's Harvester Personal Simulator and Forwarder Personal Simulator.
Elsewhere on our Web site, you can find other articles and testimonials about simulator-based training using Simlog's crane industry products, construction industry products, and mining industry products.
We have also posted some testimonials from Simlog customers in the forest industry.
"Experience with Simulator-Based Help for Operator Training at CFP Mont-Laurier (Québec)" (PDF file), Simlog presentation, 2 October 2007, 3rd World Forest Engineering Conference. © 2007 Simlog. All rights reserved.
"Lynne Synotte, project planner at the College of New Caledonia Burns Lake Campus [in the province of British Columbia], said that in response to a shortage of logging machinery operators, the College developed a 20 week program to train workers. Six months ago, the College purchased 12 harvester/processor training programs, 12 excavator training programs (both produced by Quebec's Simlog), and a dozen laptop PCs with specialized simulator controls to run them.
"Irvin Reid trained on a simulator for his job with Burns Lake's P&B Mechanical. After nearly 100 hours on the simulator, he says it took about an hour of operating the real machine to make the transition. He estimated that somebody going in cold would take "at least a week or more" to reach the same level of proficiency, most likely destroying some valuable timber in the process. With previous hands-on training as an excavator operator, he gave the laptop excavator a try soon after it arrived and pronounced it "pretty much dead on"."
Excerpt from the article "Training's Two-Way Street: Simulators are playing a key role for students preparing to enter B.C.'s resource sectors", 2007 Rightcourse Magazine. Reproduced courtesy of Business in Vancouver Media Group.
"Human Differences and Operator Potential" (PDF file), Lift & Access, July-August 2006. © 2006 Maximum Capacity Media. All rights reserved.
"Simulating The Job: Cyber training for heavy equipment operators" (PDF file), Atlantic Forestry Review, March 2006. © 2006 George Fullerton. All rights reserved.
"Operator Training with Simulator-based Help in Quebec" (PDF file), Simlog keynote presentation, Simulator-based Training of Forest Machine Operators, Joensuu, Finland, November 17-19, 2004. © 2004 Simlog. All rights reserved.
"Operator Training -- No Train, No Gain", August 2003, Canadian Forest Industries. © 2003 Canadian Forest Industries. All rights reserved.
"Questions and Answers about Training Simulation for Forestry Equipment Operators" (PDF file), Simlog presentation, 2002 Annual Meeting, Council on Forest Engineering. © 2002 Simlog. All rights reserved.
"Operator Pre-Screening and Simulator Training" (PDF file), Coastal Pacific Logging. © 2002 Coastal Pacific Logging. All rights reserved.
"The major cut-to-length manufacturers have sophisticated and visually-impressive simulators [...] but the purchase costs of these simulators put them out of the range of all but the largest dealers and/or forestry schools. Simlog has been working on forestry simulators for years now and has developed a PC-based version priced just right for the contractor hoping to shorten the learning curve on the harvester or trying to eliminate poorly-suited operator candidates before wasting valuable training time. Run on your own office PC, the simulator uses a series of training modules with exercises of increasing difficulty. Key performance criteria are evaluated after each module, including stump height, production, piling, which can be compared over time, with other operators/candidates, or with Simlog's own benchmark data. The joysticks can be easily configured to match your own machine. The graphics, effects, and sample forests are not as sophisticated as the big boys, but then it will do the job with a quick payback."
"LOGFOR Wrap Up", October 2001. Canadian Forest Industries, © 2001 Canadian Forest Industries. All rights reserved.
"Designed for the professional logging contractor, Simlog's Harvester and Forwarder Personal Simulators reduce training costs and increase harvesting productivity by preparing new operators and better selecting training candidates. Instead of real forwarder/harvester controls, the 3D simulators are equipped with two commercial PC joysticks that offer the same look and feel. Following field evaluations of the harvester simulator, Tembec Industries endorsed the technology as affordable and essential as a training tool, Simlog says. The simulator packages include a CD-ROM with simulation software, user documentation, joysticks and installation instructions."
"Simlog's 3D Simulators Train Operators", Logging and Sawmilling Journal, October 2001. © 2001 Logging and Sawmilling Journal. All rights reserved.
"The Virtual Harvester: Corner Brook Pulp and Paper uses Simlog software for re-training", Atlantic Forestry Review, September 2001 (Volume 8, no. 1). © 2001 George Fullerton. All rights reserved.
"Something New: Training Simulators for the Professional Logging Contractor" (PDF file), Simlog presentation, 2001 Annual Meeting, Canadian Woodlands Forum. © 2001 Simlog. All rights reserved.
"High Tech Training of a High Tech Workforce in the Forest Industry" (PDF file), Corner Brook Pulp and Paper presentation, 2000 Annual Meeting, Canadian Woodlands Forum. © 2000 Corner Brook Pulp and Paper. All rights reserved.
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