The pallet truck, learned.On a virtual floor.
The Exlynks BOPT Simulator puts operators at the controls of a battery-operated pallet truck on a virtual warehouse floor, to practise moving pallets through aisles and across docks before they work the real one.
A battery-operated pallet truck (BOPT), also called a powered or electric pallet truck, is a low-lift truck that raises a pallet just clear of the floor and moves it. The operator steers and drives it from a tiller handle, walking behind it or, on some models, standing on a platform.
BOPTs do much of the moving in warehouses, docks and stores, which is why so many people operate them, often with little formal training.
Warehouse floors: driving, braking and turning with and without a load, keeping control at walking pace among people and racks.
Aisles: lining up with pallet positions, entering and leaving them, and reversing safely in tight space.
Dock handling: moving pallets between the dock, the staging area and the store.
Practice without the risk: operators rehearse handling, manoeuvring and placement without putting machines, stock or people in harm’s way.
Repeat any scenario: the same task runs as many times as it takes, including situations that are rare or unsafe to stage on a live floor.
Meet the machine first: new operators learn the controls and the environment before their first shift, so their time on the real truck starts further along.
A simulator prepares operators; it does not replace practical training and assessment on the real machine, on your site, which still apply.
The simulator can be built around your own trucks and floor as a custom project: the machines you run, the layout of your warehouse, yard or training bay, and the tasks your operators do every day, so they practise in a copy of the place they will work in.
Our in-house Unity and 3D team studies the task, models the machine and its working space in real-time 3D, builds the controls and scenarios, sets the simulator up on the agreed hardware and refines it as training feedback comes in.
Warehouses, distribution centres, retail stores and back rooms, manufacturing stores and docks, and the training institutes and skill centres that prepare people for them.
A BOPT is a battery-operated pallet truck: a low-lift, electric truck that raises a pallet just clear of the floor and moves it, steered and driven from a tiller handle.
A BOPT simulator recreates a battery-operated pallet truck and the warehouse around it in real-time 3D, so operators can practise driving, aisle work and dock handling without using the real truck.
Pallet trucks are among the most widely used machines in a warehouse. A simulator lets each new operator practise the same tasks, repeat the hard ones and meet the controls before their first shift, without risk to people or stock.
Yes, as a custom build: we model your pallet trucks and your floor, docks and aisles in real-time 3D so operators practise in a copy of the place they will work in.
Yes. The BOPT Simulator is available to order now, and we can set up a demo.
Tell us which machine you train on and where. We will set up a demo, or scope a simulator built for your equipment.
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