IATA wanted to improve the way aviation personnel handles Dangerous Goods and introduced a new training & assessment approach shifting focus from theoretical knowledge to practical skills. It required a software solution automating competence assessment in a real-life training environment.
With our turnkey solution development, IATA got a training web application that simulates real-life situations of handling Dangerous Goods and appropriate documents. The solution is to be used as a unified tool for Dangerous Goods competence training, assessment & certification worldwide.
IATA represents 290 airlines (82% of the world’s air traffic) and helps to set & manage policies on the aviation industry’s most critical aspects. Incidents caused by Dangerous Goods transportation were among the association’s concerns, so IATA found a way how to improve the process & engaged us to elaborate the solution.
They revealed that though aviation personnel had a good theoretical knowledge base, they needed practical skills to work with Dangerous Goods effectively and safely. To ensure that, we helped IATA to develop a unique solution that allows to train & assess practical skills of Dangerous Goods handling without jeopardizing aviation safety:
IATA has chosen Sigma Software not only because we demonstrated top tech expertise, but also because of the aviation domain knowledge we have. This helped IATA experts and Sigma Software teamwork in synergy and shape the Client’s vision of the future product into a PoC as well as further develop a fully-fledged training & competency assessment tool.
The product itself is a web-based solution aimed to simulate real-life situations happening in aviation companies’ day-to-day operations. 3D environment & Dangerous Goods models immerse examinees into those situations to enable the experience as if they are working with real objects afield.
The online training platform Sigma Software team developed fully automates the process of practical skills training and competence assessment end-to-end (from the very learning to IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations certification).
Alexander Galperin
Software Architect
Sigma Software
Realistic training environment where aviation workers could nearly touch the goods and fully experience interaction with objects, and all of it on-line, was one of the key challenges our team worked hard on to reach. We decided to integrate Babylon.js engine into our system that allowed us to not only create an incredible web-based 3D environment, but also to deliver the product as fast as possible.
Andrey Moroz
Account Manager
Sigma Software
It was a thrilling and challenging project to build a unique solution that will shape the future of training and competency assessment. It is a tremendous excitement to be a part of this honorable mission and make aviation even safer.
