Safety is always a chief concern with horizontal directional drilling. To enhance employee training and mitigate safety risks, Georgia’s Southeast Connections has adopted a new technology: virtual-reality goggles developed by Vermeer.
The goggles do for HDD operators what flight simulators do for airline pilots: provide a real-life, highly detailed virtual experience that allows operators to learn about things such as basic drill functions, bore planning, mud-mixing and steering functions.And they do so without the risks usually associated with using actual machines for training, says Doug Simmons, general manager of the company’s HDD division, based in Conyers, Georgia.Employee InvestmentIn 1996, Southeast Connections
