Media Articles
"Since 1998, Perth-headquartered company Immersive Technologies has led the way in mining equipment operator training technology. Designed and manufactured in WA for the international market, the company’s latest product, the Light Vehicle Conversion Kit®, further expands its range of simulated equipment and is the first for the mining industry."
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Featured in International Mining - Jun 2008
"HEAVY equipment operator training simulator specialist Immersive Technologies yesterday announced its recent acquisition of Perth-based Mining Training Services (MTS) in a bid to extend its capacity to address the industry’s skilled labour shortages."
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Featured in MiningNews.net - Apr 2008
"Immersive Technologies has acquired Perth-based Mining Training Services (MTS) to help address the Australian mining and civil industries shortage of operators.
MTS is a registered training organisation with a history of providing high quality training to the mining and civil industries on mobile plant, according to Immersive.
MTS will now be known as Immersive Operator Training. "
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Featured in Australian Mining - Apr 2008
"Simulators are playing a growing role, assisting both the industry’s training needs and the drive to improve maintenance. For example, six years ago American copper giant Phelps Dodge commenced a comprehensive process of improvement at its mines with the aim of reducing, and ultimately eliminating, operational performance variance"
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Featured in International Mining - Apr 2008
"LIEBHERR has expanded its exclusive licensing and technical information alliance with Immersive Technologies to include a range of hydraulic mining excavators and shovels.
Th is follows the alliance signed in 2005 for the Immersive T282B simulator of one of the world’s largest haul trucks.."
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Featured in Australia's Mining Monthly - Mar 2008
" The mining training processes of large African companies is made more efficient and cost effective with advanced simulator training technology, says simulator training equipment company Immersive Technologies."
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Featured in Mining Weekly Online - Jan 2008
"Significant maintenance cost savings achieved at North America’s biggest copper mine are expected to be repeated at other sites using Advanced Equipment (AE) Simulator training technology developed in Australia.
The savings realized at the giant Morenci mine in Arizona in the United States — operated by Phelps Dodge Corp. of Phoenix, Ariz. — are a result of improved haul truck and rope shovel operator performance levels linked to simulator training."
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Featured in Machinery and Equipment - Nov 2007
"A BOOMING mining industry has seen huge global demand for Immersive Technologies’ Advanced Equipment (AE) Simulators with 90 AE Simulator training modules purchased in the past 12 months.
A total of 330 AE Simulator modules are now operating at 130 locations in 21 countries around the world with customers including mines, equipment dealers and operator training schools. "
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Featured in Australian Mining Online - Nov 2007
"The world’s largest exporter of thermal coal Xstrata Coal South Africa, has chosen Immersive Technologies’ operator training simulators as a key tool in meeting the large increase in staff requirements for the ramping up of operations, including a large proportion of ‘green’ employees."
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Featured in Mining Weekly - Nov 2007
"MODERN training simulators are now able replicate detailed mining conditions, ranging
from overburden density and consistency to different road surfaces and even climate
conditions. Alex Forrest delves into the virtual world with Immersive Technologies."
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Featured in Mining News Premium - Nov 2007
"Used for many years by the aviation, military and space industries for the training of highly technical situations in dangerous and costly environments, simulators have now gained recognition by the global mining industry as a highly beneficial tool for safety and business improvement projects.
Simulators provide an opportunity to educate and assess staff in correct equipment operation that can result in reduced maintenance costs, improved productivity and, most importantly, a safer working environment."
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Featured in Australian Journal of Mining - Sep 2007
"IMMERSIVE Technologies has made a further significant breakthrough in Queensland with an order to supply its state-of-the-art Advanced Equipment (AE) Simulators to Australia’s largest coal producer and exporter.
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) will take delivery of three new training simulators in July and August of this year, expanding its Immersive Technologies simulator fleet to four units. BMA has also purchased a further seven simulator Conversion Kits® allowing BMA to now simulate over 18 different machine models, including the worlds-first simulator based dragline operator training system which was recently awarded the title most Innovated
Mining Solution at the 2006 Mining Prospect Awards."
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Featured in Mine Safety - Sep 2007
"Phelps Dodge, uno de los productores de cobre mundo con ocho minas en Norte y Sud América, se ha convertido en el mayor usuario industrial de Simuladores de equipos con seis unidades en operación en sus minas a rajo abierto. Las unidades Simuladores AE fueron suministrada por Immersive Technologies, que ha entregado cerca de 80 simuladores en 16 paises, utilizados por 45 empresas mineras, empresas contratistas y proveedoras de equipos."
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Featured in Equipo Minero - Sep 2007
"Computer-based training systems and advanced simulator technology are blazing a trail in the way mining companies train operators in safer and more productive vehicle operation.
Getting behind the wheel for the first time can be a daunting experience for anyone, but when that vehicle is worth millions of dollars, and with tyre damage alone costing tends of thousands of dollars – compounded, of course, by the shortage of tyres – training simulators, pardon the pun, begin to make a lot of cents. "
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Featured in Australian Mining - June 2007
"As global demand for natural resources and energy rises, customers in the mining industry, in particular, are increasing their production volume, requiring an increase in the number of operators accordingly."
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Featured in Komatsu - 2007 Quarter 1
"Komatsu has chosen to exclusively support and recommend an Australian developed mining equipment simulator product range. The original equipment manufacturer (OEM) has signed an exclusive agreement with Immersive Technologies, allowing it access to its technical data for the development of Komatsu equipment conversion kits."
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Featured in Plant Equipment & Hire - Feb 2007
"Over the past decade, machine simulation has emerged as the favoured training tool of the mining industry. Almost all the world's largest miners have switched onto the technology and the novelty factor that may have once been a deterrent defiantly no longer exists"
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Featured in Australia's Mining Monthly - Jan 2007
"LURING people into the driver’s seat of a $A3 million dump truck or $A150 million dragline with fatter salaries is increasingly only half the battle for mine operators. The major challenge is to maximise the return they’re getting on the investment in both people and machines."
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Featured in HighGrade Publishing - Dec 2006
"Simulator supplier Immersive Technologies announced in October that it has formed a technical alliance with Komatsu Ltd. in which Komatsu will provide restricted technical data to Immersive for development of AE Conversion kits that will allow accurate, up-to-date simulation of Komatsu mining equipment controls, systems and operating protocols."
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Featured in E&MJ - Nov 2006
"In a little over two years Phelps Dodge has become the world's single biggest user of Advanced
Equipment (AE) Simulators, with six units installed. In April this year it became the first company
to begin a program of adopting Immersive Technologies' unique TrainerAdvantageT certification
scheme for simulator operators and managers."
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Featured in Australian Journal of Mining - Sep 2006
"Imagine an “off-road” machine operator driving his equipment under heavy rain, at night, on a slippery surface and downhill. He might not be able to survive and tell us about the “exciting” experience of driving in a situation like this one. The operators at
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), in Brazil, will be facing challenges like this one or even worse ones, but without the risk of having an accident or the machine breaking down."
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Featured in revistaelo.com.br - Sep 2006
"Immersive Technologies the African and Global Market leader in Simulation training technology, would like to extend an open invitation to all delegates attending Electra Mining Africa 2006."
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Featured in Mining Mirror - Aug 2006
"The only Caterpillar simulator in Argentina is in the province of San Juan. With the simulator, the operators learn how to drive the trucks by recreating the most adverse situations."
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Featured in DiarioDeCuyo.com - Aug 2006
"Equipment simulator manufacturer Immersive Technologies says Tanzania's largest open-pit gold mine expects a six month payback of its investment in advanced simulator training technology. "
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Featured in E&MJ - Jun 2006
"AUSTRALIA’S largest mining contractor, Thiess, has credited two Australian-developed technologies for significant reductions in mobile equipment maintenance and operator training costs during a period of severe cost pressure over the past 12-18 months."
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Featured in HighGrade Publishing - Jun 2006
"It is a global, capital-intensive industry, using expensive and sophisticated equipment, and increasingly carrying out vital safety and skills training with highly developed simulation tools."
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Featured in AusImm - Mar 2006
"To get a barometer reading on the heat in the growing global mining equipment simulator market, one must travel to Perth,Western Australia, to the headquarters of Immersive Technologies."
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Featured in Australia's Mining Monthly - Jan 2006
"SOME mines cost $100 million to bring into production. That covers the process plant, the mobile equipment fleet, infrastructure and myriad development items. However, a large-scale coal mine might spend this much on one piece of earthmoving equipment: a dragline."
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Featured in HighGrade Publishing - Jan 2006
"Surface mining equipment simulators have become popular in recent years. Much like aircraft simulators used to train and update pilots, such units have revolutionized mines’ approach to recruitment, training and productivity. These facilities allow mining companies and contractors to train and assess operators using a safe, educational, production enhancing, easy to use and low-cost system."
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Featured in International Mining - Oct 2005
"HIGH-COST capital equipment, including dump trucks, must be operated around the clock for mines to justify their investment in both the hardware and the personnel driving the vehicles. But mine owners face a dilemma when they have to train people up to operate trucks and other equipment as productively and safely as possible."
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Featured in Australia's Mining Monthly - Oct 2005
"El simulador AE es un puente entre la brecha de la sala de clases y la experiencia de la operación de máquina en el mundo real. Este méttodo de entrenamiento ha demonstrado proporcionar las habilidades transferibles más efectivas."
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Featured in Horizonte Minero - Sep 2005
"Large copper, gold and coal producers are improving the skills, safety and productivity of dump truck, shovel and other machine operators through application of simulator technology similar to that used widely in the aerospace, military and other fields. Maturing use of the technology is also now producing bigger gains in areas such as maintenance."
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Featured in E&MJ - Sep 2005
Accuracy of Simulation, Extensive Product Range, Industry Acceptance and Comprehensive Custom Support. We have the experience and training technology to make a difference at your operation. To achieve new productivity and safety benchmarks, contact Immersive Technologies today.
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Featured in E&MJ - Sep 2005
"Western Australian-based Immersive Technologies, a leader supplier of state-of-the-art training simulators for operators of heavy machinery, has entered into a landmark licensing agreement with the world's largest manufacturer of mining and construction equipment."
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Featured in Australia's Mining Monthly - Sep 2005
"Built inside a transportable container, a computer simulates various scenarios from weather conditions and road surfaces to emergency situations, providing a safe environment for operator training on large mobile equipment used in the mining sector."
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Featured in the Thiess Quarterly News - June 2005
"As increasing demand for coal drives a raft of mine expansions and developments, finding, hiring, training and retaining skilled dragline operators has become ever more critical for coal mines."
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Featured in the Australian Journal of Mining - June 2005
"Immersive Technologies supplies one of its Advanced Equipment Simulators to Drummond's "world-class" Mina Pribbenow operation in Colombia, where it will be used to train and assess equipment operators in the hope of bringing further improvements in safety and increased productivity"
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Featured in Australia's Mining Monthly - Feb 2005
Northern Life interview
Ryan Thibeault, an off-highway truck driver at Pioneer Construction in Sudbury following a training session of the Advanced Equipment Simulator at
the Toromont Caterpillar dealer in Lively.
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Featured in Northern Life Website - Feb 2005
Advanced training simulators like those used extensively in the aerospace and defence industries are relatively new to mining but they are fast becoming a key part of mine-site training programs.
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Featured in Australia's Mining Monthly - Jan 2005
Immersive Technologies' training Simulators are proving to be a mission critical tool for mines intent on improving safety, increasing operator efficiencies and reducing the unscheduled maintenance costs of their operations.
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Featured in Australia's Mining Monthly - Jan 2005
Tyres continue to account for a significant part of the operating costs of open cast mines. In fact the direct and indirect costs of tyres have escalated in recent times due to the combined factors of rapid mine expansions globally and critical shortages in global tyre supplies.
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Featured in Gold and Minerals Gazette - Jan 2005
Phelps Dodge Mining Co. has ordered four Series II Advanced Equipment (AE) simulators from Immersive Technologies under a strategic partnering relationship formed between both companies earlier this year. The AE simulators will be used to train new operators and re-train experienced operators at Morenci, the largest copper mine in North America; as well as at the Sierrita and Bagdad copper mines in Arizona; the Chino and Tyrone mines in New Mexico; and Candelaria in northern Chile.
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Featured in BNet - Sep 2004
Lihir Gold has introduced a state-of-the-art training simulator to bring about increased safety awareness and productivity, smarter production and reduced machine damage.
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Featured in Post Courier - Aug 2004
"Argyle has purchased a state of the art truck simulator that can be programmed with our own pit layout. One test drive of the simulator is enough to prove it will be invaluable for training and testing of skills and procedural compliance."
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Featured in The Argyle Diamond Newsletter - Dec 2003
Training for safety-related incidents that cannot be replicated in real life has been a strong selling point for Immersive Technologies simulators.
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Featured in Mining Australia - May 2003
Alison Birrane talks Immersive Technologies, one of Western Australia's companies at the forefront of their field developing Simulator technology for heavy equipment used in the mining industry.
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Featured in Business News - Aug 2003
Immersive Technologies, the developer of leading simulator technology for the mining and other heavy equipment, has produced the world's first commercial dozer simulator for training operators.
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Featured in Mining Australia - Aug 2003
