CM Labs Simulations - Tue April 14, 2020
CM Labs Releases New Tool to Bridge the Skills Gap
At ConExpo 2020, CM Labs Simulations unveiled the Vortex Edge Max, a new training tool that gives even more organizations access to solutions for bridging the skills gap. The latest simulator in CM Labs' Edge series of training products, the Vortex Edge Max is an entry-level tool that develops transferable operator skills....
CM Labs Simulations - Wed April 08, 2020
CM Labs Drives Operational Cost Savings with New GPS Feature on Excavator Simulator Training Pack
At ConExpo 2020 CM Labs Simulations unveiled its most advanced excavator training exercise to date, featuring an integrated GPS guidance system that trains operators how to use this technology in the simulator....
JLG - Thu April 02, 2020
JLG Launches New AccessReady Fusion XR Virtual Reality Training
JLG Industries Inc. , an Oshkosh Corporation company and global manufacturer of mobile elevating work platforms and telehandlers, introduced a significant upgrade to its proprietary AccessReady XR virtual reality (VR) boom lift training simulator with the addition of a full scissor lift training package....
American Concrete Pumping Association - Thu April 02, 2020
American Concrete Pumping Association (ACPA) Announces Certification 2020 Program
The American Concrete Pumping Association (ACPA) announced updates to the ACPA Operator Training and Certification Program. Referred to as "Certification 2020," the new program will launch by mid-year 2020 for ACPA operator certification....
Isuzu - Wed April 01, 2020
Isuzu Motors America Opens New Engine, Power Unit Prototype Center
Isuzu Motors America LLC has opened a new (8,000 sq.ft.) technical engineering facility to better serve its engine and power unit customers and distributors in power generation, agricultural, construction and off-highway equipment manufacturing....
Manitowoc - Wed April 01, 2020
Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority Receive Grove Training in Italy
Technicians from Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority (GPHA) visited Manitowoc's facility in Niella Tanaro, Italy, to learn proactive maintenance and basic repairs on the Grove RT530E-2 rough-terrain crane....
Thu March 26, 2020
Special Academy Session Helps Women Move Into Construction
ADOT has hosted many sessions of its Construction Academy during the past six years. But the latest one held at the beginning of March in Phoenix was still a momentous first. That's because all the participants in this academy, which ran from March 2 to 13, were women....
RAM Inc. - Wed March 04, 2020
RAM Opens Registration for 2020 BEST Course at South Dakota School of Mines
RAM Inc.'s 2020 enhanced Blasting and Explosives Safety Training (BEST) Course will be held at the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City, S.D., from Sept. 9 to 11. Building on a solid foundation of explosives regulatory, technology and application sessions, this year's course features instructions on hazard recognition posed by deteriorated explosives....
James Headley – SPECIAL TO CEG - Mon January 27, 2020
OSHA Takes Training to a Higher Level
It finally happened. After almost ten years, on December 10, 2018, OSHA implemented the Crane Operator Certification law and licensing for those states requiring an operator license. But, that's not all they did!In addition to implementing this law, OSHA upped the ante for training and raised the stakes even higher by mandating an Employer Operator Evaluation that went effect on April 15, 2019....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 08, 2020
Missouri Valley Line Constructors Build New Training Facility in Iowa
Linemen have one of the most dangerous jobs out there, and now apprentices from the Missouri Valley region will have one of the best places in the country to learn their trade. The Missouri Valley Line Constructors and Apprenticeship and Training Program is building a $13.5 million facility to train apprentice linemen, traffic signal technicians and substation technicians from seven states — Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin — in Indianola, Iowa....
