Training | Mining Skills Australia

Improve Efficiency and Accuracy with Augmented Reality

What’s better than watching a real-world environment together with virtual details right in front of you? At @MiningSkillsAustralia we offer you a similar experience with one of the biggest technology trends, @AugmentedReality (AR). Linking the physical world to the digital platform, AR acts a channel between machines and humans. This growing technology allows @Miningskillsaustralia to expand its horizon and offer a hands-on approach towards teaching, allowing a 569-tonne excavator to land in front of you or even on the palm of your hand by simply using your tablet or mobile device.

Being challenging to deploy, the animators of @MiningSkillsAustralia use their knowledge and experienced gained through an innumerable iterative process to create a real time immersive experience for our users, augmenting the understanding through the medium of this technology.

In general, our animators use the assets from Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) to optimise AR. Additionally, the model is combined with virtual touch by applying an invisible mesh and then the models are pre-rigged in the animation. This process is duplicated to provide that real-time Augmented Reality experience, which can mean having you operating a Rigid Haul Truck, when seated at your office desk!

At Mining Skills Australia, our Animation team facilitates your business needs and provides you with exceptional service from creating equipment movement to placing it anywhere you want.

We support you with our AR capabilities to create scenarios for your distinct environment and organisational needs. Contact Mining Skills Australia today to discuss how Augmented Reality can fit within your company or organisation today.

Andy Visits Ferrexpo

Andy Visits Ferrexpo

Andrew Holder, Mining Skills Australia, Managing Director recently conducted a Training Needs Analysis at the Ferrexpo mines in the Ukraine.

Ferrexpo PLC is a Swiss-based commodity trading and mining company which is the third largest exporter of iron ore pellets in the world. Ferrexpo’s operating base is in central Ukraine, where it operates three iron-ore mines and an iron ore pellet production facility.

The Training Needs Analysis was conducted over two weeks to evaluate operator mining standards in line with Australian outcomes. The focus was on fine tuning operator technique efficiency and reviewing preventative maintenance opportunities across various truck, shovel, loader and ancillary support equipment.

Mining Skills Australia introduced our digitalised Learning and Development platform to support Ferrexpo’s shift trainers to train to International standards so they will be able to support their operators with the relevant knowledge and skills in the future.

Mining Skills Australia would like to thank the Ferrexpo training team and the operators for their amazing hospitality and we look forward to continuing the relationship into 2022.

We wish Andy safe travels as he returns home to Australia.

Confined Space Virtual Reality

Mining Skills Australia’s Animation, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are integral components of Mining Skills Australia’s eLearning capabilities.

The animation’s when used as a learning tool severely outweighs other types of media for a variety of reasons and at MSA all animations are customisable experience tailored to your needs.

As you can see, our Virtual Reality guru Mark is focused on a confined space project, here he is able to get real-world accuracy with the design through remote technologies.

Mining Skills Australia is proud to be able to produce the quality of our products.

Contact Mining Skills Australia today on 07 3556 3982 or email [email protected]

South Africa – Mogalakwena Update

If you weren’t already aware, Mining Skills Australia have two of our trainers Brett and Shannon in South Africa. Their training has been successful and positive comments have come out of their trip so far.

The consensus from both trainers is that the Mogalakwena mine operators are loving the experience and working alongside the trainers to gain more knowledge about processes.

It really does highlight the importance of face to face training and it gives the trainers an opportunity to work in new environments.

Mining Skills Australia is happy to support local and global networks, and look forward to the success of reaching the knowledge gap for the operators at the Mogalakwena mine.

Spot the Difference – Real vs Animated

Mining Skills Australia’s Animation Department have been tirelessly working away to create effective and realistic results for our clients.

Our Animation team produce animations that are industry backed practices, this means the animations created are an accurate and real representation of a real-world procedure, practice or piece of equipment. In this case the Dump Truck!

We put it to you now, can you spot the difference between the real and the animated dump truck?

Let us know which you think in the comments section of our LinkedIn post.

Managing Director Andy in Finland

Managing Director Andy in Finland

Mining Skills Australia’s Managing Director Andrew Holder has been fortunate to head abroad to Europe whereby he will be hands on with some training.

As COVID-19 restrictions are ever changing it is great that we are back out there currently putting Mining Skills Australia on the map globally.

Andy’s travels are taking him through Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ukraine and Amsterdam to visit Hitachi sites. These photos were captured during Andy’s time at Terrafame, in Finland.

Do not underestimate our trainers ability to work through all conditions, rain, snow or shine.

We wish Andy safe travels on his trip and much success.

New Hitachi 1900-6 Training

Mining Skills Australia’s trainer Barry headed to Thunderbox for some training alongside site supervisor Matt where they captured this new piece of mining equipment, the Hitachi 1900-6.

We want to thank the Thunderbox site supervisors for organising their operators to attend the familiarisation and proficiency skills.

Contact Mining Skills Australia today to discuss how our trainers can assist your team!

Call 0735563982 or email [email protected]

Mining Skills Australia featured in Mine Magazine November 2021

Mining Skills Australia has again featured in Mine Magazine for the November 2021 Edition.

We hope to only grow as a company and as our Director stated “Mine sites contend with balancing the gap between learning new knowledge and translating that knowledge into practice. Reducing that productivity gap is our focus.”

Learn Local, Work global!

Click on the link below to read more:

Mining Skills Australia Company Insight – Mine | Issue 110 | November 2021 (nridigital.com)

Do you want to develop animations, or obtain our training packages?

Contact Mining Skills Australia today on 07 3556 3982

or email [email protected]

MSA Trainers take on South Africa

Mining Skills Australia is working alongside AngloAmerican and now the borders are open for International travel Mining Skills Australia have sent two of our trainers Brett and Shannon to Mogalakwena, South Africa to engage with operational training to improve the performance of their team at Mogalakwena Mine.

Mogalakwena Mine is located near Mokopane where the mine was established in 1993, and is the largest open pit platinum mine in the world and 100% owned by our friends at Anglo American.

Mining Skills Australia’s partnership with Anglo American has provided a great opportunity for growth and development in training.

Photo Credit – Anglo American

TRAUMASIM

Mining Skills Australia had the privilege to be able to get hands on yesterday with some of Traumasim Group’s most advanced medically accurate products. These are designed to simulate realistic wounds, injuries and medical conditions to assist with training and assessment.

Traumasim Group have given Mining Skills Australia’s Animation Department an exciting project to create an animation more gory than ever before, but will they make the cut.

Our animators are ready for the challenge.

Do you think your company needs something extra? Contact Mining Skills Australia today.