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French Marine has selected SCANSIM simulator to air traffic controlers training

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Following an international call for tenders, French Marine has selected SCANSIM simulator (www.scansim.com) to air traffic controler training. This simulator will be commissioned in September 2010 in Hyères naval air base. Three additional simulators will be supply in other french naval air bases in 2011. Each simulator is compouned on two (2) trainer station with a large 3D visual system of 120° and one instructor station.

This project will be realised in partnership with EGISAVIA and INEO Defense companies, partners of SCANSIM simulator in the frame of SIMULAVIA GIE.

SNCF has selected OKTAL for supplying 120 units of driver training simulators.

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Following an international call for tenders, SNCF has selected OKTAL to supply 120 cutting edge driver training simulators. This contract is the most important one regarding the number of units ever purchased by SNCF.
These simulators will be based on the latest generation of OKTAL small range driver training simulator and will be constituted by a simplified dash board and three monitors for 3D viewing and virtual instrumentation.
Based on the latest version of OKSimRail^TM software they will enable SNCF to provide their drivers with high level training courses for safe and efficient operation.
The simulators will be commissioned in 30 training centers in France.

Fabrice CARLIER, Head of driving simulator purchasing at SNCF said « We chose OKTAL due to innovation and relevance of its solution in addition to its raisonnable price.
This is a major project for SNCF because it will enable us to start continual vocational and skill enhancement training of more than 15300 drivers. This is also a challenge for OKTAL who will need to commissione all the driving simulators within 6 months after having finished the design phase.

OKTAL Sales&Marketing director Pascal COUCHAT explained that " after having been the first supplier of a driver training simulator for SNCF with the Eurostar simulator in 1992, OKTAL will become, with this contract, the first supplier of SNCF regarding the number of driver training simulators. This confirms that we have our sights set on becoming a leading actor especially in the French market in addition to the quality of our products. As SNCF is one of the most famous and important operator in the world, we are very proud to contribute to the improvement of driver training quality, furthermore because, through this contract, SNCF decided to change its supplier for adding to its batch of small range driver training simulators. This is a great success for OKTAL"

Record sales for OKTAL in 2009

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In 2009, OKTAL combatted the financial crisis with record sales over 15.3 Millions €.
This success rewards OKTAL's politicy in on-going products improvement and innovation. It also confirms OKTAL's strategy to be one of the most important figures in the field of turn key simulators for Aeronautics, Automotive and Rail in France and abroad.

Celebrating 20 years of simulation - What happened in 2001?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The RoadXML format : an opensource initiative from OKTAL for road networks description

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

During the last RSS2009 conferency and the 14th SCANeR User Group, OKTAL has announced the RoadXML format, a new initiative dedicated to open its own file format resulting from the compilation of proprietary formats.

The ambitions of the RoadXML are :

- to take part to the standardization of road network format in order to enhance the the interopérabilité between the simulator,

- to improve the content of the road networks format to fulfill with the objectives of the future transport and mobility in respect with sustainable development and to buid more realistic and efficient civil and military training,

- to develop a unique gateway between driving simulators and traffic engineering applications.

Join the RoadXML community (www.road-xml.org) and give RoadXML a push in the right direction to the road network standard.

Celebrating 20 years of simulation : What happened in 2000?

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Celebrating 20 years of simulation : What happened in 1998?

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Meet us at ISAL 2009

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

OKTAL will be pleased to meet you during the next ISAL Symposium in Darmstadt from 28 to 30 September 2009. During this event, you could discover the new SCANeR studio software including headlighting simulation.

Celebrating 20 years of simulation : What happened in 1992?

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

20 years of simulation : What happened in 1991?

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT