Press Release

Montreal, September 8, 1999 - Simlog is pleased to announce the delivery of its first harvester simulators to forestry machine operator training schools.

Simlog's real-time graphical simulation technology was developed by a team of engineering and computer science specialists at the Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM) as part of a four year R&D project. With the financial support of the Quebec government, ATREF (Application de technologies robotiques aux équipements forestiers) brought together a variety of leading research organisations and forestry industry players: Denharco (St-Hyacinthe, Quebec), Autolog (Laval, Quebec), FERIC (Pointe-Claire, Quebec), Laval University and McGill University.

Simlog's harvester simulator prototype, called the "ATREF Simulator", was awarded first prize in the Innovation category as part of the 1998 OCTAS competition held by the Fédération de l'informatique du Québec.

Following conclusive demonstrations of its added value to training at the Centre de formation professionnelle Mont-Laurier (Mont-Laurier, Quebec), the ATREF project partners decided that the simulation technology could best be commercialised by creating a new company. To this end, Simlog recently completed its first round of financing and formalized its ownership arrangements with CRIM and Denharco, specialists in the design, production, and installation of forest harvesting attachments.

Today, Simlog is concentrating its efforts on the development of real-time graphical simulators to help train heavy equipment operators in forestry, mining and construction. Simlog has already sold ten simulators, with eight delivered in the last two weeks.

"There are certainly lots of projects on the go here," said Paul Freedman, Simlog's CEO and former Lead Researcher at CRIM. "We already have a mobile crane simulator undergoing field trials at the Centre national de conduite d'engins de chantier (Les Cèdres, Quebec) and we are presently negotiating with mining industry representatives to develop new training simulators for both underground and surface mining equipment."

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