VISTA Training Mining Operator Training Services
VISTA Training provides equipment operator training solutions that enhance mine safety and productivity. Our operator training is focused, effective and tailored to mine environments.
VISTA training products are unique in the quality, breadth and depth of the content they contain. Programs are created by an instructional designer, ensuring that they meet the unique needs of adult learners. Our services include:
- Integrated haul truck operator curriculum (including job aids and simulators)
- Operator training programs for a variety of mine production and support equipment
- Mine simulator product line
- Mine production analyses
- On-site equipment training services
VISTA’s staff has over 100 years of combined experience in the mining industry, giving us an unparalleled depth of knowledge of mine safety and operations. While we have mine subject matter experts on staff, training program development is also sponsored and reviewed by subject matter experts from our mining customers.
Haul truck operator training
VISTA recently introduced TruckLogic™, a more intelligent approach to haul truck operator training. TruckLogic is a comprehensive haul truck operator training curriculum that combines web-based training (e-learning), simulation and on-the-job training tools. It is the first of its kind in the mining industry.
These elements are integrated into a blended learning format, which helps trainees to retain more of what they’ve been presented than conventional training methods. In addition to task-based operator training, VISTA offers machine-specific training modules on any model of large mining truck.
PC-based mining simulators
VISTA offers a complete line of PC-based simulators, which enable your mine to provide affordable hands-on training to new operators. Available simulators include:
- Mining trucks (two haul truck sizes)
- Wheel loader
- Hydraulic excavator
These simulators are designed to be set up on your PC, using off-the-shelf controls. Replica and OEM controls are also available. At an installed cost of about $20,000 per workstation, your mine can afford to deploy multiple simulators, enabling you to train a greater number of operators at one time.
Mine safety training and mine equipment e-learning
VISTA recently launched a new family of affordable, web-based training modules called the Silver Series that covers many types of mining equipment, including:
- Haul trucks
- Wheel loaders
- Motor graders
- Excavators
An innovative new tire care program helps mine personnel work together to extend the life of costly haul truck tires. In addition, a pair of introduction to heavy equipment modules help trainees with no previous heavy equipment experience how these machines work and interact, and common safety hazards to be aware of when working around them.
Mine site training services
VISTA provides third-party skill evaluations of your shovel, haul truck and other equipment operators. Operator skill assessments are performed by observing over 30 different operating points. Any deficiencies are noted and then targeted for improvement. This analysis provides you with valuable information that you can use to improve fleet utilization, productivity and profitability.
VISTA has provided on-site heavy equipment training to some of the world’s leading mine industry companies, including Bucyrus International, Freeport-McMoRan, Cliffs Natural Resources (Northshore Mining), Suncor Energy, Syncrude, Boliden and Minera Antamina.
VISTA Training partners with its mining customers to provide customized e-learning training solutions that help them to improve productivity, reduce unplanned maintenance expense and improve mine safety.
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VISTA Training – Engineering & Mining Journal Article
VISTA Training recently published an article in the Engineering & Mining Journal which explained how its TruckLogic™ haul truck training curriculum reduced incidents and increased productivity at a mine site near Alberta.
Suncor Implements the TruckLogic™ Training System
Suncor Implements the TruckLogic Training System
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Press Release
VISTA Training, Waterford, Wisconsin, recently launched a new skid steer loader training module as part of its affordable, growing Silver Series of web-deliverable operator training programs.
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Read moreSuncor Energy recently awarded both its training department and VISTA Training one of eight coveted President's Operational Excellence Awards, for the implementation of the innovative TruckLogic haul truck operator training curriculum at its oil sands mine in northern Alberta.
Read moreVISTA Training published an article in the October 2011 issue of Engineering & Mining Journal that explains how its TruckLogic™ haul truck training curriculum resulted in a 50% reduction in incidents and a 3.5% increase in productivity at Suncor Energy's oil sands mine near Fort MacMurray, Alberta.
Read moreVISTA Training recently launched an affordable new Tire Care training module that aims to help mines to extend the life of their haul truck tires – and hopefully avoid costly tire shortages. Thanks to a booming global mining market, demand for large haul truck tires is very strong, and shortages
Read moreVISTA Training has launched two new training modules as part of its growing, cost effective Silver Series: Heavy Equipment – Intro & Safety and Heavy Equipment – Pre-Use Inspection. These web-based training modules are designed to help educate trainees who are new to the fields of constructio
Read moreVISTA Training recently presented a technical paper at the 2011 Haulage & Loading Conference in Phoenix, Arizona that summarized the results Suncor Energy has achieved with its new TruckLogic™ haul truck operator training curriculum at its mine near Fort MacMurray, Alberta, Canada.
Read moreThe new Silver Series of web-based equipment operator training programs from VISTA Training gives mines convenient access to task-focused training on many types of heavy equipment, on demand. These affordable programs are designed to help trainees to become proficient and safe equipment operators
Read moreWith productivity being the name of the game in the Global Mining Industry, mining companies are increasingly starting to look at new and innovative methods to improve productivity at their mines. One the most prominent assets involved in mining productivity are haul trucks and further to that,
Read moreThanks to an innovative computer-based training (CBT) program produced by VISTA Training, combined with management, supervisory and equipment operator commitment, the tires of the Caterpillar 797B haul trucks at one Alberta oil sands mine are lasting about 20% longer, for an estimated savings
Read moreTo help mine managers to better understand how the new TruckLogic™ haul truck operator training curriculum can pay off in a typical mine, VISTA Training has recently developed a demonstration lesson that provides an inside look at the program's content and advantages. Utilizing screens from the a
Read moreVISTA Training, Inc. (Waterford, WI, USA), a leading provider of safety training resources to the mining industry, recently released TruckLogic™, an innovative new haul truck operator training curriculum. It is designed to help mines to train new haul truck operators faster, at a lower cost
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