WINGD opens VR engineroom training centre

Wintherthur GD, the Swiss two stroke engine maker, has opened a new, fully integrated engine room training simulator in China.

Calling it a W-Xpert Full Mission Simulator (FMS) it is for for training engine room staff at the Marine Power Academy Training Centre of Hudong Heavy Machinery in Shanghai. The centre trains 500 crew a year.

The simulator joins a network of some 20 further installations at strategic locations around the world.

As well as being the first installation of WinGD’s dedicated, multi-touchscreen simulation hardware in China, the Shanghai FMS system is also first to be pre-programmed with specially adapted versions of a simulation software the engine maker has developed with its partner UNITEST Marine Simulators in Poland.

More details available from the press release

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