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Top Op Troubleshooting Competition

How can I help my operators improve their troubleshooting skills in a realistic setting? What’s a good way to evaluate operator performance beyond written tests? Are there any team-based training tools that build critical thinking for process technicians? How does the Top Op Troubleshooting Challenge work in a plant or training environment? Can I customize the Top Op competition for our control system and process models? What kind of training value does a simulation-based challenge offer for new or experienced operators? Is there a way to make troubleshooting practice more engaging and competitive? How do other companies use Top Op to support operator development? Can we run the Top Op Challenge virtually or in a hybrid format? What’s included when we schedule a Top Op event for our team?

Learn & Compete

During the challenge, participants will use Simtronic’s SimCirrus OTS, a high fidelity simulator, to work through plant-specific problems of your choosing to see who can fix the issue. Select from existing exercises, or we can create custom exercises based on your specifications.

As competitors use the process operator training simulator, the operators will encounter increasingly more difficult scenarios to determine who is the top troubleshooter! This also serves as a unique learning experience for your organization to work with those that struggle to improve their critical thinking and troubleshooting skills.

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Everything You Need

This hands-on troubleshooting competition is a powerful opportunity for your organization to boost engagement, sharpen skills, and foster team collaboration. To ensure you get the most out of the experience, we provide a complete turnkey solution:

  • High-fidelity, cloud-based simulators
  • Support for 8 different DCS emulations
  • Access to 80+ standard process models
  • Off-the-shelf or custom-built scenarios
  • Objective scoring and performance reporting
  • Comprehensive event planning and management
  • Facilitation by experienced industry professionals
  • Engaging and exciting team-based exercises
  • Activities designed to enhance critical thinking and real-world troubleshooting skills

Your organization is able to customize everything; you determine the number of participants, models used, scenarios presented, access time allowed to participants, the type of scoring you want completed, training to use the operator process simulation technology, and whether this competition is 100% virtual or a hybrid with in-person challenges.

What’s the best way to train operators on troubleshooting process issues? How can I make troubleshooting practice more hands-on and effective? What tools are available to simulate real plant problems for training? How do I know if my operators are ready to handle upset conditions? Can troubleshooting skills be taught, or are they learned only on the job? What’s the difference between classroom troubleshooting and simulator-based training? How do I assess an operator’s critical thinking during a troubleshooting scenario? Are there troubleshooting training options that don’t require full-time instructors? How often should we run troubleshooting drills or challenges? What’s the ROI of investing in structured troubleshooting training?
Improve operator troubleshooting with hands-on training, process simulation, and real-world practice. Boost critical thinking with troubleshooting drills and challenges. Use high-fidelity simulators to build confidence and reduce errors. Customize your troubleshooting training to fit your team and equipment. Develop skilled process operators through practical, team-based learning.

Benefits

  • Brings simulator-based troubleshooting to operators at any plant, anywhere
  • Competition format enhances operator participation and learning for the troubleshooting process
  • No software to install, everything is web-based
  • Logistics and planning are structured to make implementation easy
  • Scoring emphasizes safety and meeting production specifications
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A typical competition flows like this:

  • Identify the project coordinator and obtain management support.
  • Determine the size of the competition: area/plant/company wide and number of participants.
  • Select from standard process models, identify scenarios: off-the-shelf OR custom.
  • Let your participants know the schedule, provide access for practice, and offer training if desired.
  • Compete using selected models and scenarios, announce results, and award prizes!
  • Conduct a post-event competition assessment and survey participants for feedback.
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