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Are we witnessing the golden era of Human Performance Improvement? EXO Insights shares its vision

Human Performance Improvement is rapidly becoming the vital weapon to make your team deliver its best, constantly and predictably.‍Monitoring and profiling Human Performance in high-risk mission-critical activities is the first step towards an efficient and synchronized team.

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Go beyond Training: Human Performance Improvement at EXO Insights

For more than a decade, EXO Insights has provided custom, hyper-realistic training solutions for industries with high-risk, mission-critical environments. Using digital twins and biometric sensors, EXO Insight’s advanced human performance improvement platform is the next level.

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Mind-wandering: the hidden actor affecting your workplace performance and safety

Approximately 13,000 Canadians die in work-related accidents annually. Many more Canadians suffer from work-related injuries each year. And one type of distraction - Mind-wandering - is a little known yet significant contributor to accidents, injuries, and fatalities in the workplace.

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Babcock Canada EXO Insights Collaboration

EXO Insights has collaborated with Cavendish Nuclear in the development of a novel Hand and arm Vibration tool, to improve workers' health and project productivity. Our development teams and Cavensih Nuclear project teams integrated to create a novel, tested and reliable tool to improve the workplace at different levels.

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Digital Twins in Action: Real Impact on Productivity, Costs and Human Performance

Read about how a project that began as a way to allow remote conferencing has formed and progressed to become a fundamental maintenance, operations, and training tool with measurable positive effect on costs.

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Biometrics Dashboard

During our simulations, EXO Insights' biosensors are constantly recording - gathering data and generating reports, based on both standard and custom indicators, in order to improve workforce quality and efficiency.

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Biometric Virtual Reality Training for Mining - a BHP case study

BHP operates Escondida, the largest copper mine in the world located in northern Chile, with approximately 12,000 daily workers. With safety, competency training and certification as core concerns, BHP supports CEIM, a regional trade school.

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Boom Truck Circle Check

This movie describes the Lockout as seen by the Supervisor. The objective is to cut the energy of a bridge crane for maintenance. This simulation generates a detailed report along with the eye-tracking data that will identify the gaps of knowledge.

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99% Carbon-Freee in Ontario

"To decarbonize the electric power system, it takes fully leveraging every technology and tool available to you” says Jeff Lyash, President and CEO of Ontario Power Generation (OPG). In this interview for the EPRI Journal, Lyash discusses the keys to success with decarbonization efforts, nuclear power refurbishment, and customer engagement.

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The definition of work is about to be permanently transformed

With the rapid digitization of numerous industries and many facets of our everyday lives, artificial intelligence and robotics are poised to transform the economy in a way similar to the industrial revolution. While these technologies will boost productivity, we should be concerned about their potential effect on the labour market.

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Virtual Reality in the Workplace

Virtual Reality has many benefits in the workplace. While VR has been around longer than you might guess, its applications are ever expanding. From training to digital twins, this technology is revolutionizing how we train and work on all levels.

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Mixed Reality - Making Sense of the Revolution of VR/AR in Industrial and Safety Training

More than 5,000 fatalities occur every year in North America as a result of workplace accidents. Conventional training has shown its limitations and new, immersive technologies are the solution to bridge this gap.

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EXO Insights Celebrates Successful Contributions to Ontario’s Growing Nuclear Industry

The Organization of Canadian Nuclear Industries (OCNI) is proud to congratulate EXO Insights for supplying high-tech industrial safety training to Ontario Power Generation and Bruce Power and their associated contractors.

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5G WILL TAKE AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL

As 5G networks begin rolling out, what does this mean for business? Here we summarize just some of the benefits coming your way as 5G networks enable more reliable connections so workers can be out in the field while keeping up to date on relevant information at all times.

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Canadian Operator Uses On-Site Invention Labs to Accelerate Tech Gains

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is using on-site technology invention labs and a streamlined development process to transfer the latest advances to operational plants. Taking innovation into their own hands, they're focused on adopting cutting edge technology to improve plant operations.

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EXO Insights Makes Dangerous Work Safer With VR

The stakes are high and you’re under extreme pressure. How do you make sure you’re trained to do your job correctly – and safely – every time? That’s where virtual and augmented reality come in. EXO Insights’s hyper-real training experience allows workers to rehearse critical tasks and put their learning to the test in a safe, simulated workplace.

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Electric Lockout

Lock Out, Tag Out (LOTO) procedures are dangerous to perform and even more dangerous to get wrong so getting the process right the first time, every time is crucial. We used biometrics to asses gaps of knowledge and used the subsequent data to generate reports that give employers an in-depth understanding of how to improve worker performance.

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2018: the year Human Performance met Data Analytics...

2018: the year Human Performance met Data Analytics... ... and why Data from Virtual/Augmented influences all for the better. The permanent buzz on Big Data is always a challenge when we focus on Human Performance.

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How to Profit from Errors

Through advancements in immersive technology, traditional employee training methods are being forever transformed into interactive, hyper-realistic, and engaging experiences. These experiences yield critical data for greater employer understanding - and profitability - of workplace behaviours. They come with another added bonus: data and results.

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Biometric VR Simulation General Components

Think you can only use VR remotes in simulations? Think again! In the case of this boom truck operator training we reverse engineered an actual truck controller to be used in VR training. Getting the details right is crucial to making sure VR training is transferable to real life.

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