Simulator Project Support

PCS can work with your personnel to provide several types of project support services to help you ensure a successful simulator acquisition project.

  • Initial Bid Specification Development
    PCS will help you develop a very thorough bid specification that will ensure the simulator you purchase will meet your present and future needs. From our years of experience in this area, we can assure you that providing a very detailed specification will actually reduce the cost of the simulator that you end up purchasing and make sure that the simulator is useful for operations training. Detailed specifications remove much of the uncertainty for the simulator vendors allowing them to more accurately bid on the actual costs for them to produce a simulator that will meet the detailed specification. Removing the uncertainty factor will reduce the cost of your project. Additionally, this becomes the basis for the Factory Acceptance Test Plan to test the simulator.
  • Simulator Scenario Support
    PCS will work with your simulator instructor(s) and training staff to program all the files that will be needed to perform the level of training and evaluation you require. For example, the simulator may typically come with two basic tested Initial Conditions (ICs), Full Load and Cold Pre-start conditions. The simulator training material that was specifically developed for use on this simulator will require other Initial Conditions to be saved (snapped) before training can begin. Additionally, other files will have to be developed to support training, i.e. Trend files, Constraint files, Scenario files, Training Proficiency Review (TPR) files, etc. All these must be programed, tested, and verified before they can be used in the training and evaluation environment. PCS, with our years of experience in this area, can help you perform these tasks in the shortest time possible to make your simulator ready for training and evaluation.
  • Simulator Engineering Support
    PCS will help you program your simulator by using an experienced simulator engineer. If your current simulator doesn't quite do what you need it to do or, if you have operational errors, we can help to resolve those.