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DiSTI Schoolhouse™A Cloud-Based Training Solution

Across the world, the global pandemic of COVID-19 and unforeseen events are prompting organizations to examine the way they conduct training. Remote training provides organizations the power to train and certify staff regardless of location, lower training costs, improve overall efficacy, and provide access to online training materials.For these reasons, The DiSTI Corporation is proud to offer our web-based 3D virtual training delivery platform called DiSTI Schoolhouse™.With deployments in the Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, Industrial, and Medical industries, DiSTI Schoolhouse™ enables virtual training with real-time 3D rendering through a standard internet browser. This approach reduces the need for locally installed applications. DiSTI Schoolhouse™ uses an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) capability. This method allows graphically intensive interactive 3D applications to interactively stream to computers that do not contain high-end graphics rendering hardware.Companies such as Siemens Energy and global automotive manufacturers currently use this technology to deliver 3D virtual training applications to provide cost-effective training to their employees. Nissan Motors Japan deployed a DiSTI developed dealer certification solution to enable the annual certification of Nissan’s dealer technicians.While the possibilities for implementation are boundless, the benefits continue to emerge. One client experienced a 66% decrease in training delivery time from a single course. Training through DiSTI Schoolhouse™ reduced a traditional 3-day instructor-led technical certification course to 9 hours, while also improving student engagement and knowledge retention rates.

DiSTI Schoolhouse™ Benefits

DiSTI Schoolhouse™ allows organizations the freedom to build tailored training, utilize the LMS of their choice, and deploy it quickly and to scale. DiSTI recommends using this approach for the following reasons:

• Users can access the application from any computer with a broadband internet connection and a modern (HTML 5 compliant) web browser running the latest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge, on desktop devices, including Windows, Mac, Chromebooks, and Linux PCs.
• Alleviates the need for customers/users to have high-end gaming computers to use their 3D training applications.
• Enables a rapid and instantly scalable global rollout of the training content.
• Cloud-based delivery ensures that any time the user accesses the 3D training application they are running the most current version of the application.
• No local software installation required. After exiting the service, no proprietary information resides on the user’s system.

Take Your Training Further With DiSTI Schoolhouse™

Right now, companies are looking at decentralized training platforms as a way to reach employees regardless of their location. Corporate Learning Officers (CLOs) and their Learning and Development (L&D) teams want quality training delivered to their organizations. With the DiSTI Schoolhouse™ delivery system, our team of developers works closely to assist companies with building their training solutions as well as implementing their training programs. While DiSTI hosts the content, our innovative solution allows customers to retain ownership of their training materials and brand it in their voice.As this global health crisis has brought to light, companies need to begin looking to the future for practical virtual training solutions that can alleviate workplace disruptions. DiSTI Schoolhouse™ can deliver that capability today.If you would like to learn more about DiSTI Schoolhouse™, and how virtual training solutions can enhance the productivity of your organization, download an overview and contact us today at Sales@DiSTI.com.

Anchored by a series of awards from the U.S. Army for its Family of Maintenance Trainers (FMT) program and several significant awards as a subcontractor, the company has seen its defense business continue to grow. Guided by new CEO John Hayward, who joined the company in June, DiSTI has benefitted from its focused commercial development work and sales strategy for both its GL Studio® and VE Studio® product lines.

“We continue to focus on growth in the training domain, but are finding some exciting opportunities in the industrial and automotive segments for our technology,” cites Hayward. “Our business is people, and we are focusing on hiring the best people, giving them challenging assignments, and promoting employees from within to build a sustainable and growing organization. Companies are now seeing the massive benefits that virtual training and the cost-savings of our HMI software tools can provide.”

The company has released several new features and products this past year that have helped customers navigate the challenging times. These include:

• GL Studio® 7.1 – an updated release of its GL Studio HMI Software development tool.
• GL Studio® Micro™ – an HMI tool specialized for Automotive Micro Controller Units (MCUs) built upon GL Studio’s Safety-Critical foundation.
• GL Studio® Mixed-Criticality™– allows the development QM and ASIL content in the same GL Studio Design.
• DiSTI Schoolhouse™ – a web-based 3D virtual training delivery platform.
• VE Mentor – a cutting-edge mixed-reality training solution

With worldwide customers and partners in Aviation, Automotive, Industrial, Electronics, Power and Energy, and the Defense sectors, DiSTI has seen first-hand the positive impact that its remote training solutions can provide for organizations. Businesses are looking at decentralized training platforms as a way to reach employees regardless of their location.

If you would like to learn more about DiSTI solutions, and how our products can enhance the productivity of your organization, contact us today at Sales@DiSTI.com

VE Mentor – Virtual and Augmented Reality Training

DiSTI, in partnership with Design Interactive, has developed VE Mentor, a crossover integration between two best-of-breed products.

With a direct correlation between maintenance efficiency and operational readiness, there is immense pressure to improve the effectiveness and quality of maintainer training. The spread and acceptance of virtual and augmented reality technologies have made these capabilities a must-have for training personnel.

These technologies immerse and engage students, reinforce proper techniques, save on equipment wear and tear, enabling students to train at their own pace, and improve the safety and efficiency of training in a safe environment. Empowers Developers

Create content once and share it across multiple platforms, bridging the gap between classrooms and hands-on training.

VE Mentor
Transforms Classrooms
Amplify classroom training using immersive 3D training technologies that will improve spatial recognition and extend knowledge retention.

Amplifies Capabilities
Expand training with built-in capabilities to create and distribute supplemental content on demand.

Revolutionizes Learning
Bring adaptable, focused training from the flight line back into the classroom using a simple, repeatable process.

VE Mentor allows developers to easily transition training content from the classroom to the hands-on experience in augmented reality on Hololens and mobile devices. At the same time, VE Mentor allows content authored on the flight-line to flow back into the classroom, closing the loop on providing efficient and effective maintenance training. VE Studio uses a relational database to track inputs from technical manuals, CAD Data, and photographs to produce a highly interactive 3D virtual maintenance training application for use on desktop computers.

VE Studio also publishes VR procedural vignettes for lessons where an immersive 3D experience improves the level of student understanding and engagement with the content. VE Mentor expands the publishing capability of VE Studio, allowing for the seamless transition of the classroom content onto devices ideal for use on or near the actual equipment.

Augmentor allows for the spatial placement of task steps and decision points authored by experts on the actual physical hardware. VE Mentor adds the ability to transition this content back from the flight line and feed it into the content repository keeping the classroom training current and comprehensive.

Download the one-sheet overview here.

To learn more about VE Mentor and schedule your one-on-one demo, please contact sales@disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation today announced that its GL Studio® HMI development software tool is now part of the Arm Functional Safety Partnership Program. This partnership follows months of extensive vetting of the GL Studio® software and the DiSTI Corporation’s business practices. As a result, DiSTI joins an elite list of functional safety partners who specialize in software and tools recommended by the Arm Functional Safety Partnership Program.

“As a charter member of the Arm Automotive Developer Community Program, DiSTI has been a partner with Arm for many years”, said Christopher Giordano, VP of UX/UI Technology. “We are honored again to be recognized by such a prestigious organization for our Functional Safety capabilities in GL Studio.”

For 20 years, GL Studio® has been a pioneer in the development of HMI software. As a C++ code generator and runtime library, the GL Studio® HMI/UI software development tool provides for both Safety-Critical (SC) and Embedded Systems (ES) content in the same design. This advancement is made possible by the tool’s Mixed-Criticality^™ Workflow.

As the first solution to offer the automotive industry ISO 26262 ASIL D pre-certified runtimes, GL Studio® has a built-in Safety-Critical Code Generator for use in Avionics, Aerospace, Medical, and Automotive applications. DiSTI also offers source code for testing, validation, and verification.

The purpose of the Arm Functional Safety Partnership Program is to make the process easier and quicker for companies seeking a software partner with the right experience and expertise in functional safety.

To learn more about DiSTI’s functional safety solutions, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

J.F. Taylor, Inc. has chosen The DiSTI Corporation to support the development of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) Part Task Trainer (PTT) prototype for the U.S. Army.

J.F. Taylor has awarded the DiSTI Corporation a contract to support the development of the Part Task Trainer (PTT) for the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) within the U.S. Army’s Family of Maintenance Trainers (FMT) program. DiSTI will participate in the PTT development by providing lesson and software modifications to the FMT Common Core (CC) software, AMPV Diagnostic Task Trainer (DTT) software, and associated documentation to support additional AMPV PTT physical trainer requirements.

“DiSTI is eager to work with J.F. Taylor and other FMT hardware-based Hands-on-Trainer and Part-Task-Trainer (PTT) suppliers to take full advantage of the FMT Product Line architecture and Common Core Software,” said DiSTI CEO John Hayward. “This program will provide a common training experience across U.S. Army vehicles and reduce development and lifecycle costs.”

“J.F. Taylor, Inc. is excited to join forces with DiSTI to provide the best maintenance training product to the Army,” said J.F. Taylor President Wayne Taylor. “By combining the proven ground vehicle maintenance experiences’ of J.F. Taylor’s hardware solutions with DiSTI’s virtual solutions, the PTT will bring a new high standard of training devices to the Training Aids, Devices, and Simulators (TADSS) community.”

This award is the first contract for The DISTI Corporation under the U.S. Army’s Family of Maintenance Trainers Product Line initiative to apply the FMT architecture and common core software to an FMT hardware-based trainer.

Installation of classrooms featuring the AMPV DTT trainers will occur in multiple U.S. Army training locations.

DiSTI will integrate a range of Common Core and AMPV-specific software elements, including the AMPV Lessons, Lesson Tracker, AMPV Simulation, Message Manager Interface, Instructor/Operator Station (IOS), and Training Management System (TMS).
The Family of Maintenance Trainers (FMT) is a program developed by the U.S. Army to establish a Common Core (CC) software baseline to replace its current software architecture with a solution adaptable to address new and emerging technologies for future training needs.

For more details, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation receives a delivery order from the U.S. Army to develop Diagnostic Troubleshooting Trainers (DTT) for the M1 Abrams battle tank.

The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of virtual training solutions, has received a $4.7M delivery order from the United States Army. As part of the Family of Maintenance Trainers initiative DiSTI will provide Diagnostic Troubleshooting Trainers (DTT) for the M1 Abrams battle tank and the classroom hardware necessary for the program’s execution.

“The M1 Abrams tank has been around for nearly 30 years but it is still the world’s premier main battle tank,” said DiSTI CEO John Hayward. “The M1 Abrams remains a revolutionary machine that requires the sophisticated and immersive training that DiSTI’s virtual training solutions can provide.”

The total solution will extend the existing Abrams DTT prototype lessons to include 80 maintenance and troubleshooting lessons and procedures. The simulated platform is the M1A2 SEP v3. Abrams M1A2 SEPV3 (System Enhanced Package) is a modernized configuration of the Abrams main battle tank (MBT) in service with the U.S. Army. The new version offers enhanced protection and survivability, as well as higher lethality than its predecessors

DiSTI’s solutions provide the U.S. Army with immersive, cost-effective training that improves readiness and efficacy. Studies have shown that virtual training increases student throughput. DiSTI’s solution will allow students to train in an advanced 3D learning environment to garner the skills necessary for Abrams maintenance.

Installation of classrooms featuring the Abrams DTT trainers will occur in Fort Benning, Georgia, Gowen Field, Idaho, and Fort Lee, Virginia.

The Family of Maintenance Trainers (FMT) is a program developed by the U.S. Army to establish a Common Core (CC) software baseline to replace its current software architecture with a solution adaptable to address new and emerging technologies for future training needs.

For more details, please contact Sales@Disti.com.