The aim of the project is to develop and commercialize training services for forest machine operators, construction machine operators and miners preparing for Riveria’s operator professions, and to standardize the measurement and analysis capabilities of learning environments to identify gaps in student work planning The project will pilot individual training pathways based on drivers’ personal skill levels and develop methods for measuring and evaluating learning outcomes.
The project also aims to increase the efficiency of the work of professional operators in operator positions by developing cost-effective, energy-saving working methods that do not burden work machines and drivers, and by providing related training for management and drivers. Equality between operators is emphasized in training and other project events. Male-dominated sectors are also suitable for women, as the physical burden of work decreases. During the project, the impact of the competencies and skills components of the operator professions on employee performance in the tasks will be analyzed by developing new technologies based on intelligent technology. The main emphasis in the analysis is on the design of the work and its effects on the performance of the work. In addition, processes and methods will be developed for breaking up work into comprehensible processes suitable for teaching and learning skills. Teachers and entrepreneurs in the fields of education are trained through a development program, utilizing the contents of which are formed as a result of the analysis of the above-mentioned skills learning. Students in the fields will be trained to learn skills using the new methods developed in the project, which will result in better employment and a more skilled workforce in the region. The services and learning environments to be developed in the project will be piloted in both vocational training and the training of existing drivers. At the same time, products suitable for business development and the export of training are being commercialized in co-operation with working life. To support the implementation of the project, an ERDF project is being applied for in parallel with the implementation of the study environments required for modern study, teaching and supervision.
1. The simulator field at the Riveria Valtimo site will be converted into an off-road roadway for measuring skills and developing the working methods of a forest machine operator.
In addition, will be acquired
1. A new electric forest machine simulator and 1 forwarder.
2. A mobile training environment will be built at the Jukolankatu office of the Riveria Joensuu unit, which will include a tractor and a simulator / training trailer. The trailer is equipped with a simulator and teaching facilities and accessories suitable for off-road and off-grid operation, e.g. aggregate. In addition, an excavator and a wheel loader will be procured. Additional simulators will be acquired with funding from the Otsakorpi Foundation.
3. New and existing machinery will be equipped with driver sensing and data collection and analysis software for the forestry, construction and mining sectors.
ESF project measures:
1. Determining the knowledge required to teach the skills required for the job and to identify and describe the competencies. Using the benchmarking principle, the latest information on the measurement and analysis of work in non-project target areas will be determined, with a focus on human-machine interaction. Identify the factors that are important for work in terms of competence and create weights for them in cooperation with working life. Based on the weights, the types of work are divided into substages and variables expressing efficiency and competence are determined for them. The quantities to be measured for the work will be determined for the data collection equipment to be acquired in a parallel ERDF project.
2.Analysis of data measured from work and development of work processes
– Establish a method for determining the driver’s skill level based on measured and analyzed performance data. The main focus of the analysis is the impact of the driver’s own job planning on his or her performance level.
– Define the characteristics of the software to be procured in an ERDF project for the analysis and feedback of the operator’s performance data.
– Develop the operator’s work processes by defining efficient, economical and unloaded work models for different types of work machines.
– Create exercises for the teaching of skills for the equipment and learning environments acquired in the parallel ERDF project.
3. Development of learning environments and teaching materials
– Develop digital and physical learning environments supporting stronger integration of the Skills Education 2020 training concept into vocational operator training (eg AR / VR solutions, utilization of existing learning environments in the training concept, testing of new features)
– Development of teaching material for professional operator training to support the development of the training concept (e.g. description of teaching material, digitization of teaching material, AR / VR solutions)
– Development of teaching technology and review of older equipment sensor solutions (e.g. updating and development of simulator environments, testing of older equipment sensor solutions)
4. Developing the Skills Education 2020 training concept
– Train Riveria’s teaching staff in the use of work analysis software and feedback based on it, taking into account gender sensitivity.
– Identify driver skills and define individual skill levels based on performance analysis.
– Develop pedagogical methods based on a phased teaching model and individual skill levels.
– Testing the training concept in teaching and with companies in the fields.
– Define methods for measuring and analyzing the effectiveness of learning and teaching.
– Organize training and information sessions for companies and drivers in the sectors to identify and develop personal skills levels.
– Highlight the gender suitability of the operator professions and encourage companies to recruit women for jobs in the sector.
– Review the business opportunities of the training concept.
Results of the ESF project:
1. Vocational training in the training of skills in vocational operator training.
2. The knowledge and skills of working, retrained and in-service training drivers will increase.
3. The environmentally friendly and gender-sensitive attitudes of machinery companies will be strengthened and the well-being of drivers at work will increase as cost-effective and environmentally efficient, as well as physically demanding and gender-sensitive practices spread to work communities through driver training.
4. Riveria’s education services are evolving to better meet the skills needs of companies.
