Ramirent Launches Virtual Reality Program for Training, Planning and Safety
European rental chain Ramirent has begun a virtual reality program with its new digital platform Ramirent TwinSite, a virtual construction site in full operation, designed for training and communications for better safety, sustainability and efficiency. In Ramirent TwinSite, users can navigate and receive quality training via VR for everything from effective solutions at a construction site to the safe handling of machinery and various risk factors. Training in the handling of quartz dust and handling of concrete-cutting machines are covered. The user is able to, among other things, follow the quartz dust’s journey into the lungs and lung sacs to see in a tangible way the damage it may cause. The experience maximizes the understanding and remembrance and therefore increases motivation to utilize effective dust control and self-protection.
“Our mission is to make the construction sites safe, sustainable and more efficient,” said Anders Vikmyr, design manager at Ramirent. “We have several digital innovations in progress, which make it possible to take work to the next level. Ramirent TwinSite is first out. For our customers, our solutions mean that they get the benefit of Ramirent’s expertise at an early stage in their planning processes and thus receive help with solutions for the safest, most sustainable and effective ways to build.
“Ramirent TwinSite is a fully digital platform and the plan is that in the long run it will become globally available. The platform can also be used for effective product training and marketing communications, and not only for our own products. All partners will be able to use our platform wherever they are in the world or wherever their base is located.”
“Research shows that experience-based learning and communication is superior to other methods. With VR, we simplify and strengthen this further.”
Ramirent said that by using virtual environment, Ramirent can contribute to better planning of the whole construction process of its customers, including reducing waiting periods and planning the best safety solutions, as well as exploring which products can work best during the various stages of the construction process.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.