Generally speaking, dredgers are increasingly equipped with intelligent sensors, digital process visualisation and smart control systems. To be able to make immediate optimum use of these systems, it is essential that instruction be provided in advance. Acquiring experience through trial and error, however, costs time and money. Ever younger crews, the increased advances in automated vessels and alterations to leave times have meant that the demand for training has risen. Training people in understanding the dredging process and the optimal deployment of the operating system in the shortest possible time is reason for dredging contractors to switch to training simulators. Another advantage of simulators is that they enable skills to be developed, without generating any risk to the environment or the process. Training simulators have in fact already been in use in the dredging industry, for a number of years.
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