Top Op Troubleshooting Competition

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.
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.


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
Let's Get Started
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.