Heavy Equipment Simulation News & Education
Simformed November/December 2025
In This Issue Hubbard Construction Company’s Zero Carbon Footprint Journey New Cat® Simulators Next Generation Excavator System High-Tech Protective Gear Infographic Cat Simulators Advanced Dozer System Video Hubbard Construction Company’s Zero Carbon Footprint Journey Based in Florida, Hubbard Construction Company has more than 105 years of experience in infrastructure and is committed to helping its parent
The Importance of Conducting a Pre-Shift Machine Inspection
An important responsibility for any heavy equipment operator is conducting a machine inspection. To ensure the operator’s safety and that of other job site personnel, and to make sure the machine is in good operating condition, the operator should conduct a walkaround inspection of the machine before beginning operation. Walkaround
Changing our Regional Landscape: These Guys Do the Heavy Lifting
Construction is everywhere in Wake County: From schools to shopping centers to new homes and neighborhoods, the region continues to grow. Wake Tech’s Northern Wake Campus is expanding, and the college will soon break ground on its RTP Campus in Morrisville. All that building makes our community a great place
Kentucky Safety Training Institute Goes Mobile for National Parks
The Kentucky Safety Training Institute mobile training unit travels throughout the U.S. National Park System training personnel to be safer and more efficient heavy equipment operators. Traveling to U.S. national parks for operator training is a unique experience. Don Webb Jr., PhD and Director of the Kentucky Safety Training Institute
NENAS Gets Heavy Equipment Simulator
NENAS Executive Director Audrey Sam (left) and Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification Canada Michelle Rempel (right) stand outside the new heavy equipment operator/mining simulator tractor trailer. Photo By William Stodalka Would-be heavy equipment operators got some heavy duty help last week. The Federal government’s Western Economic Diversification Canada
Use Correct Operation Techniques to Save On Fuel Costs When Operating Forestry Machines
Operating heavy equipment as efficiently as possible can cut down on expensive fuel costs. Replacing just some of machine training time with simulator training can further save costs on fuel. Take a look and compare how much you can save on 40 hours of simulator training using the FM Log
Cat® Reaches Out to Teens
Visitors Center welcomes Chicago-area high school students as potential future company employees MINING FUTURE THROUGH EDUCATION Dolton Thornridge High School sophomore Samuel Stokes sits at the controls of a simulator Thursday at the Caterpillar Visitors Center, where two busloads of Chicago area high school students toured the facility. They come
Increase Mining and Quarry Production with Simulator Training
Heavy equipment operators can affect a mine or quarry’s bottom line depending on how efficient or inefficient they complete a load, haul and dump cycle. Traditionally, training heavy equipment operators means using actual machines and letting them learn with the trial-and-error method. With heavy equipment simulators, there is no need
Simformotion™ LLC Announces Release of New Cat® Simulators Track Feller Buncher System
Simformotion™ LLC, Peoria, Ill.—a leader in heavy equipment simulator training solutions—announces the release of the new Cat® Simulators Track Feller Buncher System for Forestry. The new Track Feller Buncher Simulation Trainer is set in a forest environment where operators can learn to use the felling head and master the same
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