Details and Sample Images from the
Mobile Crane Personal Simulator

The instructional design for Simlog's Mobile Crane Personal Simulator features six Simulation Modules of increasing difficulty designed, in part, to help operators prepare for CCO certification.

Early Simulation Modules introduce the basic crane motions associated with moving hookblocks, then loads, while controlling sway. Later Simulation Modules add obstacles and load charts, to end with "zigzag" trajectory following exercises. You can even change the viewpoint during the simulation at the touch of a button.

Simulation Results
Simulation results are automatically saved on your PC. To make the record-keeping even easier, the same results can also be saved in a single database when using Simlog's Simulation Manager. With this helper product, you can create individual "accounts" for your simulator users with distinct login names and passwords, and group them into "classes". (The same database can be used with all of our products.) In both cases, keeping track is easy!

Sample Images
Here now are three sample screenshots (screen capture images) of three different Simulation Modules of increasing difficulty from Simlog's Mobile Crane Personal Simulator software. (There are six simulation modules in all.)

Note that the name of the Simulation Module and the trial number (simulation exercise) are displayed in the header of the simulation window at the top left.

In the first screenshot, taken from an introductory module, there is a small, vertical, "height bar" (shown in yellow with a blue cursor) used by the simulator to measure undesired up/down motion of the hookblock as it moves over the target on the ground.
Here is an image from a more advanced module designed to test load chart knowledge while executing lifts using various loads and hook-block assemblies; the target position for the load is shown in red "wire-frame". The load-moment indicator is coloured green, showing that operation is well within the load chart limits for this crane.
Finally, here is an image from one of the last simulation modules about trajectory following, simulating concrete pouring into wooden forms of various "zigzag" shapes. Note the presence of a small, horizontal, "distance" bar (shown in green with a blue cursor) used by the simulator to provide an additional visual cue of the position of the concrete pour over the form.