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

SIMFORMED – September/October 2014

From the Editor When I ask managers and leaders in our industry what causes them pain, there is a common theme: Finding the right people for the jobs in their organizations, budget, and production levels. Being able to offer some answers is always a welcome conversation. Simulators can be

SIMFORMED – November/December 2014

From the Editor Travel Training More and more of our clients and dealers are outfitting travel trailers with simulators and hitting the road to train at satellite locations, outdoor labs and customer locations. One of the more unique training operations we've seen is Kentucky Safety Training Institute (KSTI). Don Webb, Jr.,

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

Employees, media get rare chance to operate Caterpillar heavy equipment

[wooslider slider_type="attachments" slide-page="mg-fs" limit="20" thumbnails="true" lightbox="yes"] By Steve Tarter of the Journal Star Posted Sep. 19, 2014 @ 3:58 pm Updated Sep 19, 2014 at 4:15 PM EDWARDS — Most of the time they don’t let just anyone operate a 150,000-pound Caterpillar excavator. Except on media day at Caterpillar Inc.’s

SIMFORMED – September/October 2014

From the Editor When I ask managers and leaders in our industry what causes them pain, there is a common theme: Finding the right people for the jobs in their organizations, budget, and production levels. Being able to offer some answers is always a welcome conversation. Simulators can be

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

SIMFORMED – July/August 2014

From the Editor Scholarship Winner! Each year Simformotion™ LLC offers a $2,000 scholarship to a person enrolled in a heavy-equipment related program at an accredited college, university, vocational school, or training institute anywhere in the world. The program must include Cat® Simulators as part of the training. This year

SIMFORMED – May/June 2014

From the Editor This year, one of our goals at Cat® Simulators is to have our president, Ken Pflederer, get out and meet some of our customers. It’s really important to us to get feedback from clients on how you are using Cat Simulators; what you like most, what