Description of your Product's or Service's design and/or technological innovation

Technology like the Raymond Virtual Reality Simulator can help narrow the skills and labor gap by providing a lifelike job experience to uninitiated lift truck operators before they start operating in a warehouse, affording them a real-world experience before entering a busy facility. This experience, unlike any competitor’s offerings today, uses an actual truck and its controls by plugging into Raymond’s patent-pending sPort, or Simulation Port. Through the simulated environment, operators are taken through a series of standardized lesson modules designed to introduce basic truck control and beginner skills while gradually increasing in complexity to build upon principles and best practices learned in earlier lessons. The tool offers numerous truck models while only using one simulation kit, helping operators learn and retaining employees through the years.

The progressive coaching tool allows operators to learn the skills needed to not only operate a forklift but also manage various types of scenarios that can occur in a warehouse environment. The VR software can simulate scenarios that prepare operators for the unexpected, helping operators familiarize themselves with conditions in the warehouse environment and work through them in a controlled setting rather than experiencing them for the first time on the actual floor.

Three most important features of your Product/Service

1. The Raymond Virtual Reality Simulator offers supplementary forklift operation instruction between the classroom and hands-on learning, all in a virtual environment so students can learn before even getting on the warehouse floor.
2. The collection and generation of operator reports provides documentation of the operator’s progress, which the instructor can use to focus on improvement areas and additional educational opportunities.
3. Operators learn on actual Raymond® forklifts, made possible by plugging into Raymond’s patent-pending sPort, or Simulation Port. This allows them to experience all the controls prior to operating on the warehouse floor.

Learn more about this product - https://www.raymondcorp.com/service/training/virtual-reality-simulator