HII Ingalls Shipbuilding’s digital actuality welding lab
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, together with representatives from the U.S. Navy, Speed up Mississippi, and Mississippi Gulf Coast Group Faculty, has opened a digital actuality (VR) welding lab on the shipyard. The power is designed to assist welders hone their expertise simply and safely and to reinforce HII’s means to extend the variety of proficient shipbuilders with this important ability set.
“As we develop the shipbuilders who construct our nation’s ships, our coaching packages are a key a part of that effort,” Ingalls Shipbuilding Vice President of Operations Donny Dorsey stated. “By working with the Navy and our regional workforce companions, we are able to present people in Mississippi with a extra complete strategy to mastering a talented commerce in shipbuilding.”
This new facility integrates VR expertise into the shipyard’s present welder certification curriculum, offering new and present Ingalls shipbuilders with an immersive, hands-on expertise to develop essential shipbuilding expertise.
The institution of the VR welding lab is a part of Ingalls Shipbuilding’s broader workforce improvement efforts, made doable via federal and state partnerships which might be bringing new coaching expertise to the shipbuilding business.
“By embracing digital actuality expertise, Ingalls shouldn’t be solely equipping future shipbuilders with essential expertise but in addition setting a brand new benchmark for the way industries can leverage expertise, native coaching suppliers, and state sources to coach employees,” stated Courtney Taylor, govt director of AccelerateMS.
In August 2023, the U.S. Navy awarded Ingalls a multiyear contract for the development of six Flight III Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyers and one choice ship, plus choices for added destroyers. This award included funds to assist workforce improvement initiatives, reminiscent of digital studying labs.
