Union invests in simulators to train equipment operators

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Rubenstone, Jeff
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ENR (Engineering News-Record) | 2019年 / 283卷 / 14期
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To help meet the industry’s persistent demand for heavy equipment operators, Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers has gone virtual. Facing a bottleneck in getting apprentices ready to operate heavy iron, the union went all in on simulators, and is now running 11 of the Vortex Advantage stations from CM Labs. And according to trainers, results so far have been promising.
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