Train to worksite standards in the classroom
With CM Labs Simulations’ Signalperson Training Station, trainees learn critical worksite skills, such as communication and teamwork, in a safe environment. While one trainee operates a crane on a Vortex simulator, another works cooperatively within the virtual job site, providing signals and guiding the operation through to successful completion via a webcam and picture-in-picture display.
Trainees can move around the worksite to inspect the lifting area, recognize potential hazards, gain a clear view of all site activities, and provide hand signals to the crane operator.
Together, they either fail as a team — or succeed as a team. The result: new operators that are better prepared for any job site.
Simulator Adoption Made Easy with CM Labs’ SimGuide Service
CM Labs’ SimGuide Service is designed to simplify the integration of your new simulator. We’ll guide you throughout the process of setting up and implementing your simulator, no matter what your objective.
With the SimGuide Service, you get a complete road map detailing how and when to use your simulator to meet your targets.
The SimGuide Service is for organizations at any stage of simulator adoption, whether developing a simulation-based training program for the first time, or extending the use of existing their CM Labs simulators.
CM Labs’ Excavator Simulator Training Pack: Operator readiness for today’s job sites.
CM Labs’ Excavator Simulator Training Pack is an all-in-one solution for learning critical operator skills, including basic operations, advanced skills, worksite collaboration, and the latest operator assistance technology.
There’s no simpler or safer way to prepare operators for the tools that are part of today’s highly technical job sites.
Vortex simulators: best-in-class training
CM Labs equipment training simulators provide operators with the skills to operate equipment safely and efficiently. Trainees can practice challenging real-world operations in complete safety while key operating performance metrics are objectively logged and recorded throughout training.
Operators can prepare for the routine and the unexpected. This makes our simulators invaluable for teaching safe, productive, economic machine use. With swappable controls and configurations ranging from the desktop to an immersive five-display simulator, Vortex simulators are built to run a wide range of training packs. Each Simulator Training Pack features self-guiding, progressive learning programs, and best-in-class simulation.
- Crane and Lifting Equipment
- Earthmoving Equipment
The Digger Derrick Simulator Training Pack is the only solution that accurately replicates machine stability and engine behavior, reducing the likelihood of accidents due to tipping. Designed to support training for specialized techniques of drilling and setting poles, the learning path guides trainees through increasingly challenging tasks. It includes exercises to prepare for the EICA crane certifications exam.
Key features & benefits
The Digger Derrick simulator offers a rigorous program to ensure operators prepare for various real-world drilling scenarios and maneuvering. Part of CM Labs’ range of simulated lifting machinery, it is an ideal solution for the utility market, training schools, or organizations with a wide range of equipment in their fleet.
The Telehandler Simulator Training Pack is the only solution that accurately replicates machine stability and engine behavior, reducing the likelihood of accidents due to tipping or collisions. Using challenging load management scenarios, operators can improve their cycle times and fuel efficiencies.
Key features & benefits
The Telehandler simulator offers a rigorous program to ensure operators prepare for various real-world lifting scenarios and driving requirements. Part of CM Labs’ range of simulated lifting machinery, it is an ideal solution for training schools or companies with a wide range of equipment in their fleet.
- Progressive learning program
- Best-in-class vehicle simulation
- Performance metrics and reporting
The Digger Derrick Training Pack provides a complete learning solution. Trainees work on skills such as controls familiarization, auger, pole control, and setting.
The Training Pack is the only solution that accurately replicates machine stability and engine behavior, reducing the likelihood of accidents due to tipping. Designed to support training for specialized techniques such as drilling and setting poles, the learning path guides trainees through increasingly challenging tasks. It includes exercises to prepare for the crane certifications exams, such as EICA.
CM Labs is the only simulator on the market that accurately replicates machine stability—providing real-world training opportunities to help reduce the risk of accidents and improve operator efficiency.
View all Vortex Construction Equipment Training Simulators.
Excavator Simulator Training Pack
Operators sometimes need to bridge the skills gap – quickly and safely – to operate multi-use machinery and take new roles on the job site. Leverage these Add-on Modules as a cost-effective solution for cross-skill training, assessing new equipment, and working on team tasks, while tracking fuel efficiency and safety progress.
With Tandem Add-On Module
The Articulated Dump Truck (ADT) Simulator Training Pack is the only solution that accurately replicates machine stability, providing training opportunities to reduce the likelihood of accidents due to tipping. The training works on optimal loading and improving teamwork skills.
Part of the CM Labs’ family of earthmoving machines simulation training solutions, the ADT simulator is an entry-level training pack, ideal for training schools or companies with a wide range of equipment in their fleet.
The Forwarder Simulator Training Pack is sold in a bundle with the Harvester Simulator Training Pack. Developed in collaboration with Tigercat, every simulated machine component is backed by precise engineering specifications to ensure realistic behavior and maximum training value. Students gain exposure to the largest and widest variety of simulated terrains on the market that includes rocks, slopes, rivers, and tree stumps, and as result, transition faster and more effectively to the real equipment.
The Forwarder Simulator Training Pack’s curriculum was developed in consultation with forestry and logging training schools to ensure students acquire the right skills and techniques for safe and productive operations.
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Item Number:MCK-CKWM-001The Catapult Lab is a great entry point to the MINDS-i system. The provided exercises focus on the creative build process, data collection and the PDSA cycle (Plan, Do, Study, Act) used in the industry for decades, for design engineering, product troubleshooting & problem-solving.
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Item Number:MCK-ECLB-2WDThis fast and sleek 1/10th scale electric car comes with all the electronics and hardware needed to assemble the kit and includes easy to use visual instructions. This kit is also compatible with most hobby standard DC motors, gears, radio transmitters, servos, bodies, wheels, tires, and more.
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Item Number:MCK-107P-001Prepare students for FAA Part 107 knowledge areas with the MINDS-i FAA 107 Certification Prep Course. Explore regulations, airspace, weather, safety, and UAV operations in a 45-hour program.
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Item Number:CPK-W4X4-001Explore the Minds-i Search and Rescue Competition Kit, created for SkillsUSA robotics events. Learn how students can build, program, and remotely operate robots to tackle real-world rescue challenges.
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Item Number:MTModern mining equipment is increasingly complex, costly, and difficult to operate productively. As a result, proper operator training has become everyone's business. The fact is, it takes training to spot a truck and position it for loading under a full bucket. It also takes training to back up a truck just using mirrors under that bucket. Otherwise, your mining operations will suffer from lower productivity, higher fuel costs, increased tire wear, and more equipment maintenance and repair.
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Item Number:MCRASimlog’s Advanced Edition puts you at the controls of a modern rough-terrain mobile crane equipped with telescoping boom and jib, and a variety of hook-blocks with best-in-class simulation graphics and physics, slings that go “slack”, and a boom that deflects. And now there’s wind, with parameters to define the direction, strength, and gusting.
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CM Labs’ Mobile Training Center is designed to give organizations the flexibility to offer training and assessment anywhere. It provides on-site presence, reducing team displacement and job site disruption. Community colleges and vocational schools can expand training locations and access markets previously out of reach or too remote.
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Item Number:TRV10L / TRV25Mobile robotic welding training with the MOD-WELD® Cobot Traveler. Teach FANUC cobot welding, programming, and real-world fabrication workflows in flexible lab environments.
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Item Number:DCDA-30Teach advanced robotic welding with the MOD-WELD® Cobot Drop Center, a FANUC CRX-25iA dual-axis positioner system for hands-on automation and fabrication training.
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Allow your welders to double their throughput with a pre-engineered robot welding system. Both the MAC series, designed with a FANUC CRX Cobot, and the MATE series, designed with a FANUC ARC Mate robot, give endless opportunities for quick setup and ease of use.




















