The Sky is the Limit | Innovation Showcase Episode 1

I am involved with a lot of the innovation efforts in the company, whether it’s product development, technology development, efficiencies, deliveries to

to clients who have specific needs and the development of better services that allow us to help the clients in more significant ways.

What’s most interesting about us is that we are kind of a blue collar technology company. While we’re doing extremely high tech things, our focus is mostly on people who are in the field working in dangerous, hard to access difficult environments. What differentiates CM Labs in the industry is the underlying layer that nobody sees, but the layer we are so proud of. Uh, it’s called Vortex Studio. Everything built at CM Labs is built on the Vortex Studio, which is a set of tools that allow you to create and deploy simulations. Because we own that set of tools, we’re able to also build into the products a lot more flexibility than you’ll find from our competitors. This platform is also available to OEMs.

We can offer a platform that we use for our own needs to develop training solutions that they can use for their own needs.

So another area that we’re extremely unique is we’ve managed to continue working in cutting edge research work that we’re bringing into practical problems.

So we’ve been collaborating, for example, with McGill University for at least 15 years now. We’ve looked at all the topics I mentioned, uh, rigid body dynamics, vehicle simulation, tire models, robotics. We collaborate with the universities to push the research further out, and this opens up new possibilities for our customers to use these simulations for product design, for example, for also for developing controllers that are now increasingly using ai.

So we can train those controllers and test them using the simulation on machines that have not necessarily even been built.

I think we’ve been doing it longer than anybody else. From the very beginning. We were working with offshore engineers in defense or aviation. Uh, a lot of different areas that required taking that technology and packaging it or developing it in the right direction to solve practical problems. So at CM Labs, we have a culture of excellence. It’s cool to see all these different culture, different origin, sharing the same passion about what we do. That creates an environment in which we think sky is the limit.

I’m very bullish on simulation in general, and what I think is gonna happen over the next 20 years is it will be absolutely ubiquitous. Everybody’s gonna use simulation to learn how to operate machines, to familiarize themselves with machines.

I think those uses of simulation are gonna grow and grow.