Top Op Troubleshootig Challenge Running Virtual Simulator on Computer

Top Op Troubleshooting Challenge

This challenge uses an interactive competition format to enhance operator troubleshooting skills. Using high fidelity simulator models, operators experience increasingly difficult scenarios that require them to use their critical thinking skills to successfully return the plant to normal operating conditions.

Top Op Troubleshootig Challenge Running Virtual Simulator on Computer

Top Op Troubleshooting Challenge

This challenge uses an interactive competition format to enhance operator troubleshooting skills. Using high fidelity simulator models, operators experience increasingly difficult scenarios that require them to use their critical thinking skills to successfully return the plant to normal operating conditions.

We are excited to announce that we just finished creating the simulator scenarios for the sixth year in a row for NAPTA’s Troublshooting Skills Competition! We will be facilitating the competition event April 21 — 23 to help facilitate the competition. Keep an eye on our social media channels as we post LIVE udpates!

Top Op Challenge Operator Participant

Each year, we donate the simulators and exercises to the NAPTA Troubleshooting Skills Competition: the competition that pits top schools and colleges around the country against one another. This is a popular contest to determine an operator’s troubleshooting abilities through a friendly competition with bragging rights included as a bonus. In doing this yearly, we quickly came to realize that organizations can benefit from this competition as well. The Top Op Troubleshooting Challenge allows organizations to create customized learning experiences through a competition. Challenge your operators to see who is the best and determine where more troubleshooting training might be needed.

Operators Compete and Learn during the Top Op Troubleshooting Challenge

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.

Benefits of Top Op Troubleshooting Challenge

  • 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
Top Op Troubleshooting Challenge Competition

Everything You Need for the Competition in One Place

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This troubleshooting competition is a unique opportunity for your organization, and we want you to get the most out of it. That’s why we provide everything:

  • High fidelity cloud-based simulators 
  • Support for 8 different DCS emulations 
  • Access 80+ standard process models 
  • Off-the-shelf or custom scenarios 
  • Objective scoring and reporting 
  • Comprehensive event management 
  • Experienced team of industry professionals 
  • Engagement, excitement 
  • Exercises to improve critical thinking and troubleshooting skills to fix issues

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.

Let’s get started! A typical competition flows like this:

Top Op Troubleshooting Challenge FAQs

Just bring your competitors, and we will bring the rest! Systran provides everything needed from the operator process training simulation technology to the scoring system.

We can conduct this competition for anyone, anywhere so there’s no software to install or complicated process to get started. Everything is structured for easy implementation. Plus, the competition format enhances participation from operators while our scoring system emphasizes meeting safety specifications for your specific organization.