Liebherr has chosen to expand its exclusive licensing and technical information alliance with Immersive Technologies to include the company’s range of hydraulic mining excavators and shovels.

This follows the alliance signed in 2005 for the Immersive T 282 B simulator representing one of the world’s largest haul trucks.

Liebherr will now work exclusively with Immersive Technologies to develop training simulators for the Liebherr range of excavator and shovels.

The first Liebherr mining excavator represented in a simulator is Liebherrs current flag ship the R 996. Other models will follow imminently given the market’s strong demand for simulation products for enhanced operator training for mining machines.

“Liebherr can see the advantages of simulator based training for operators from both safety and machine availability perspectives. Liebherr exclusively recommends Immersive Technologies as the supplier of simulation training products for their range of excavators and shovels”, Burkhard Richthammer, LIEBHERR Product and Marketing Manager for hydraulic mining excavators at Liebherr’s main mining excavator factory in Colmar, France.

“We are very pleased to expand our alliance with Liebherr given the success of the T282B Truck simulator development”, Peter Salfinger CEO, Immersive Technologies.

Immersive Technologies holds exclusive licensing and technical information agreements with the leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), including; Liebherr Mining Equipment Co., Liebherr France SAS, Caterpillar Inc, Komatsu Ltd, Hitachi Construction Equipment Ltd and Bucyrus Inc. These companies collectively supply the majority of the world’s mining haul trucks, excavators, shovels, dozers and ancillary equipment.

“We commit significant engineering resources each year to ensure the OEM alliance training simulators that we represent remain authentic and continually deliver value. This is key to helping our clients to minimise risk to their Operators and maximise productivity”, Peter Salfinger CEO, Immersive Technologies.

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Immersive Technologies is the world's largest, proven and tested supplier of surface and underground Advanced Equipment Simulators to the global mining industry. The company has achieved this unique position by focusing on its mission to make every mining and earthmoving equipment operator in the world safer and their employer more profitable through its simulation technologies. Immersive Technologies' Advanced Equipment Simulators are helping hundreds of mining companies around the world to increase their equipment operators' safety and site profitability through effective simulation training.

Immersive Technologies provides its customers with the most effective Advanced Equipment Simulators available. This is made possible through the formal exclusive licensing and technical information alliances Immersive has established with the leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), including: Caterpillar, Hitachi, Komatsu and Liebherr. These unique alliances provide Immersive Technologies with exclusive access to the OEM's proprietary and confidential machine technical information that is required to correctly simulate the OEM's machines and is not available through other public or dealer channels.

With advanced simulator modules deployed in 39 countries, Immersive Technologies is dedicated to provide outstanding service. To deliver on this commitment the company has customer sales and support offices located close to its customers in Perth and Brisbane Australia, Salt Lake City USA, Calgary, Ottawa & Vancouver Canada, Monterrey Mexico, Lima Peru, Santiago Chile, Bochum Germany, Johannesburg South Africa, Jakarta Indonesia, Kolkata India and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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