Introduction

The DiSTI Corporation is the pioneer in virtual training solutions primarily for the automotive industry. Virtual reality training has emerged as a revolutionary approach to transforming training processes in the automotive industry, producing real value for manufacturers across the globe.

With the automotive industry changing rapidly, it is prudent that leading automotive manufacturers adopt and integrate new technologies for the research and development, engineering, design, and manufacturing of vehicles. One such technology is virtual reality.

Virtual training solutions for the automotive industry offer immersive and interactive training experiences for automotive technicians. With DiSTI’s virtual training solutions, technicians can practice maintenance and repair on virtual vehicles minimizing the risk and expenses associated with practicing on actual life-complex machinery.

DiSTI’s virtual training solutions offer a flexible and cost-effective way to train automotive technicians and improve their skills and knowledge retention. The DiSTI Corporation’s virtual training solutions are designed considering the complex production processes for vehicles, enabling clients to gain a competitive advantage while maximizing the benefits of research and innovation.

Benefits Of Virtual Training Solutions In the Automotive Industry

Virtual training solutions offer unique benefits to the automotive industry, including

• Cost-effective: Unlike traditional training methods, virtual training solutions offer companies a cost-effective alternative. Virtual training solutions harness VR to deliver training materials and simulations by reducing the expenses associated with travel, facility rental, instructor fee, and machinery.

• Flexible: Virtual training solutions are accessible, making it easier for automotive technicians to accommodate training into their schedules. It can be especially beneficial for employees working in remote locations or with irregular schedules.

• Enhanced Safety: Virtual training solutions offer a safer environment for technicians to learn and practice procedures using virtual vehicles or simulators. 

• Improved Retention: Virtual training solutions are more engaging and interactive and deliver curated learning experiences to enhance the retention of knowledge and skills.

DiSTI Schoolhouse™ – A Managed Virtual Training Solution

DiSTI Schoolhouse™ is an application streaming service optimized for graphically intensive 3D applications. Managed by DiSTI, DiSTI Schoolhouse™ is a unique virtual training solution that offers organizations the benefits of remote training to train and certify staff irrespective of their location. 

Additionally, it lowers the training costs by leveraging the benefits of remote training, improves overall efficacy, and captures detailed historical data for review. DiSTI Schoolhouse streamlines deploying desktop, local virtual reality (VR), and Mobile VR applications through your existing Learning Management System (LMS), allowing for a blended curriculum.

DiSTI Schoolhouse™, being a cloud streaming solution, offers interactive real-time 3D content that is accessible through standard Internet browsers on Mac, Linux, Chromebooks, tablets, and Windows by customers in the Aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial, and medical industries.

Since the content is rendered in the cloud, DiSTI Schoolhouse™ doesn’t require any locally installed applications. It eliminated the need for the local computer to contain high-end graphics rendering hardware.

DiSTI Schoolhouse™’s Virtual Classroom allows instructors to create classes of arbitrary size with assigned content and facilitate them with live voice chat, text, screen sharing, video capture, and optional webcam capture.

With manufacturers struggling to keep their technicians proficient in the ever-evolving automotive technology, DiSTI Schoolhouse™ offers the perfect virtual training solutions that are both scalable and cost-effective.

Virtual Reality in the automotive industry is leveraged as an ongoing training tool that offers unique opportunities to learn new skills and enhance and streamline the maintenance and diagnostic process.

DiSTI Schoolhouse™ Features

• Host nearly any training content
• Utilize the LMS of your choice
• Deploy it quickly and to scale
• Application is always kept up-to-date
• Rapid and scalable global rollout
• Use any modern web browser
• Freedom to use your computer
• Cloud-streamed content leaves no application data on the device
• 66% Decrease in course delivery time

The DiSTI Corporation’s VE Studio® is the leading virtual training development platform that enables the creation of complex and immersive training applications. The software features facilitate rapid prototyping and help scalable training across an enterprise quickly and cost-effectively.

DiSTI’s 25-year legacy of delivering 3D training solutions includes a complete virtual classroom management system for instructors to train students in remote environments. 

Using DiSTI’s Schoolhouse, a managed virtual training solution, technicians, dealer technicians, and other partners worldwide can now benefit from this cutting-edge training methodology and receive certifications.

Studies have shown that training through DiSTI Schoolhouse™ reduced a traditional 3-day instructor-led technical certification course to 9 hours, improving student engagement and knowledge retention rates.

Conclusion

The DiSTI Corporation’s software products and professional services have paved the way for advancements in virtual maintenance training for Global 500 companies, military organizations, and commercial clientele worldwide.

DiSTI’s latest endeavor, DiSTI Schoolhouse™, is a virtual training solution managed by DiSTI that alleviates the need for customers/users to have high-end gaming computers to use their 3D training applications.

To learn more about The DiSTI Corporation’s virtual training solutions, please contact sales@disti.com.