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Stand Up Counterbalanced Lift Truck Personal Simulator

To maximize storage density, warehouses and distribution centres increasingly adopt narrow aisles that require a special kind of counterbalanced lift truck with “stand up” functionality to work at loading docks and in narrow aisle racking systems, sometimes called a “dock stocker”.

Simlog’s new Stand Up Counterbalanced Lift Truck Personal Simulator puts you at the controls of a typical stand up (narrow aisle) counterbalanced lift truck, suitable for OSHA Class 2 operator training programs.

And the combination of photo-realistic simulation graphics, best-in-class simulation physics, and superior instructional design together provide unmatched operator training help!

Set up just one display where space is limited, or three displays placed to the left, in front, and to the right, to present views that are typical of “side stance” positioning when looking backwards, to the side, and forwards.

And all you need is one off-the-shelf computer. Either purchase your own off-the-shelf  PC or choose the convenience of our PC bundle with Simlog software already installed, licensed, and ready to go.

Simlog can also provide a Forklift Personal Simulator to train people to operate sit-down counterbalanced lift trucks, and a Reach Lift Truck Personal Simulator to train people to operate (narrow aisle) stand up lift trucks with forks that extend and retract.

Stand Up Counterbalanced Lift Truck Personal Simulator Industrial Controls

Developed in response to demand from customers for a superior simulation experience, Simlog’s USB-ready Industrial Controls feature

  • an authentic OEM Control Handle (we now offer 3 choices, for 7 different brands)
  • Steering Tiller that faithfully reproduces the look and feel of real stand up counterbalanced lift truck operator controls
  • Foot Brake Pedal

There are also two pushbuttons to present alternative viewpoints during the simulation, along with a mini-joystick to pan and tilt the current viewpoint.

The Industrial Controls are mounted on an industrial console for stand up use, with casters for easy portability and a front panel key lock. They arrive fully assembled and USB-ready, to connect to your PC. Alternatively, Simlog can provide a computer for you that’s ready to go, as part of what we call a PC Bundle.

arrow_bulet Key Features

  • OEM Control Handle (there are 3 choices, for 7 different brands)
  • Steering Tiller, that faithfully reproduces the look and feel of real stand up counterbalanced lift truck operator controls
  • Foot Brake Pedal
  • Two Pushbuttons, to present alternative viewpoints during the simulation (this is especially important when there is just one display)
  • Mini-joystick, to pan/tilt the current viewpoint
  • Emergency Power Disconnect Pushbutton
  • Front Panel Key Lock, to restrict access to the PC placed inside the console

arrow_bulet Possible Setups: 

There are two possible setups, as follows:

  • one display in front, to present the view looking forwards
  • three displays in either the horizontal “landscape” mode or the vertical “portrait” mode, placed to the left, in front, and to the right to present the three views “around you” that are typical of “side stance” positioning when looking backwards, to the side, and forwards

arrow_bulet Specifications

  • Overall Dimensions: Depth 19.5” (50 cm) x Width 39” (99 cm) x Height 46” (117cm)
  • Weight: 110 lbs. (50 kg)
  • Shipping Dimensions: D 24” (61cm) x W 44″ (112 cm) x H 54″ (138 cm)
  • Shipping Weight: approximately 150 lbs. (330 kg). One unit per skid, not stackable.
  • 120 VAC/60 Hz, 220-240VAC/50 Hz

Stand Up Counterbalanced Lift Truck Personal Simulator Replica Controls

Replica Controls for the Stand Up Counterbalanced Lift Truck Personal Simulator feature industrial strength USB-ready input devices and special tabletop mounting brackets to work from a standing position, just like in the cabin of real stand up equipment.

For the left hand, there is a horizontally-positioned steering wheel, a commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) USB-ready input device, that can also be used with many other Personal Simulators. There is also a steering wheel “knob”, to turn the steering wheel (that rotates clockwise and counter-clockwise) with just your left hand.

For the right hand, there is a “control lever” (a USB-ready joystick) to control the travel, forwards and backwards. The control is proportional: push a little to move slowly; push more to move quickly.

Practically, the control lever for the right hand can be positioned either vertically or horizontally, as per the two most common arrangements in the cabins of real equipment as shown here:

For the horizontal positioning, Simlog offers a joystick with a stiffer spring and an oval-shaped face,

In both cases, pushbuttons on the joystick are used to activate tilt up/down, side shift left/right, and to change the viewpoint during simulation e.g. by “leaning” left/right.

(Real stand up counterbalanced lift trucks also have a pedal that that acts as an “emergency stop” if your foot comes off. Since this functionality is for safety, not operations, and to help keep costs down, our Replica Controls include no such pedal.)

arrow_bulet  Possible Setups

There are two possible setups as follows:

  • one display in front, to present the view looking forwards
  • three displays in either the horizontal “landscape” mode or the vertical “portrait” mode, placed to the left, in front, and to the right to present views that are typical of “side stance” positioning when looking backwards, to the side, and forwards

Here we present both setups, for the case where the joystick is positioned horizontally.

arrow_bulet Custom Travel Cases for Replica Controls

As for other Personal Simulators, Simlog’s Custom Travel Case makes transportation easy.

arrow_bulet Key Features

  • Made-to-measure, with dedicated slots for the steering wheel, joystick, and tabletop mounting bracket
  • Space for a laptop PC, cables, and documentation
  • Pull-out handle, with multiple positions
  • Wheels (casters)
  • Cases are “stackable,” for easy transport.

arrow_buletSpecifications

  • Overall dimensions: 30″ (76cm) x 24″ (61cm) x 19″ (50cm)
  • Approximate weight: 50 lbs. (23 kg) when empty, up to 100 lbs. (46 kg) when full (depending upon the Replica Controls.)

Multi-Purposing with Reach Lift Truck Personal Simulator

Practically, stand up reach lift trucks and stand up counterbalanced lift trucks are often found together, the first working indoors in racking systems that are tall and narrow, while the second works at the loading docks, to load and unload trailers and sea containers.

And with Simlog, you can create a multi-purpose Personal Simulator station with our Stand Up Counterbalanced Lift Truck and Reach Lift Truck, to train people to operate both kinds of lift trucks.

This means using the same setup for the two simulation software programs, so the same simulator controls, the same Simulation Manager, and the same computer, displays and speakers.

Simlog’s Stand Up Counterbalanced Lift Truck simulation software features many software options to configure what you see and do, to reproduce the operator controls and steering behaviour of the most common kinds of (real) stand up counterbalanced lift trucks.  For example, you choose either “Forward” (Front Directional) or “Reverse” (Rear Directional), for the steering convention.

And just like real stand up counterbalanced lift trucks, there are “halo lights” to create a safety “perimeter”, shown here as red lines projected onto the factory floor on either side. (There is also a blue circle behind the lift truck, not shown in the screen capture image.)

arrow_bulet Simulation Modules

There are 14 Simulation Modules in total.

The first four modules present basic lift truck operations starting with “Controls Familiarization”, followed by two “Slalom” modules for driving forwards and backwards, and then “Ramp Driving”. After that come two modules for work loading and unloading first a flatbed truck, and then a shipping (sea) container. Then come four modules for more work at the loading docks, now with a “dry van” trailer and loads that are either “single” or “stacked”. Finally, there are two modules for work with “Selective Pallet Racks”, followed by one module for work with “Drive-In/Drive-Through Racks”.

Here is the complete list:

  • Controls Familiarization
  • Slalom 1 – Forward
  • Slalom 2 – Reverse
  • Ramp Driving
  • Flatbed Truck
  • Loading a Shipping Container
  • Unloading a Shipping Container
  • Loading a Dry Van Trailer 1 – Single Loads
  • Unloading a Dry Van Trailer 1 – Single Loads
  • Loading a Dry Van Trailer 2 – Stacked Loads
  • Unloading a Dry Van Trailer 2 – Stacked Loads
  • Selective Pallet Racks 1 – Standard Aisles
  • Selective Pallet Racks 2 – Narrow Aisles
  • Drive-In / Drive-Through Racks

arrow_bulet New Functionality for Collision Display and Inspection
In the real world, collisions with obstacles may not always lead to damage that is visible. But colliding with a pallet rack in the same way multiple times, will eventually lead to rack failure.

For this reason, Simlog has developed new functionality to make collisions visible as they occur during a trial (exercise) and when the trial ends for “after action review” (using military vocabulary). In this way, trainees will “see” where collisions occurred and learn to avoid them as their operating skills improve.

Here we present one example, after the lift truck (accidentally) backed into a selective pallet rack:

arrow_bulet Viewpoints from Inside and Outside the Cabin

As with other Personal Simulators, the viewpoint can be changed during the simulation.

For viewpoints from inside the cabin, the three displays placed to the left, in front, and to the right present views that are typical of “side stance” positioning when looking backwards, to the side, and forwards.

But to help train new operators, you can also present viewpoints from outside the cabin using buttons on the simulator controls, keyboard keys, or the PC’s mouse.

arrow_bulet Key Performance Indicators

Key “Performance Indicators” measure how quickly and how carefully the simulated work is performed.

With 58 unique Performance Indicators, feedback is diagnostic instead of just a consolidated pass/fail score. They include execution time, average and maximum driving speeds (forwards and backwards), measurements about how precisely loads are picked up and put down (errors in orientation, centering, etc.), and counting many kinds of collisions (forks, loads, shelves, etc.).

A variety of incorrect operating conditions will trigger “Procedure Errors” such as driving “out of bounds”.

Finally, conditions related to safety will trigger a “Fatal Error” that immediately stops the simulation such as damage as a result of a “hard” collision, or the detection of the beginning of an overturn situation.

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