DLX Demo Site

Proceeding through the Hoist Inspection 

• When Students begin the digital learning experience, they will immediately be asked to begin working with the hoist to complete the inspection.  
  

• Their first inspection task will be to inspect the vertical locks, and magnifiers can be selected from the bottom menu to show the locks more clearly. An image of the magnified locks is shown in Figure 1. 
  

• Students will see the locks in the magnified view, as shown in Figure 2. Their next step will be to pull up the Inspection Checklist, which is shown as a paper icon in the lower left menu. From there, the students will need to select from the dropdown menu the quality of the item inspected, in this case, the vertical locks. 

                                                                                          Figure 2 Vertical locks magnifier, in which one lock is stuck. 

• In the Inspection Checklist, shown in Figure 3, the student will be prompted to select whether the lock is good or stuck. Based on the magnified example above in Figure 2, they would select “Stuck.” 

                                                                               Figure 3 Inspection Checklist drop-down list of vertical lock condition. 

• For some parts of the inspection, the Inspection Checklist comes up automatically, and students must select from a dropdown list and choose the condition of the item in question.  At other times, students may feel nothing is happening, in which case, the Inspection Checklist is available to select at any time from the bottom left menu as the student moves through the inspection. It can help show the next inspection task if the student is stuck.

• It is not possible to proceed from the current task until that task is completed.

• Next the student will be asked to check the horizontal arms, and determine if they lock properly, extend properly, and are intact.  

• They’ll next proceed to inspecting the Height cut off bar. 

• After the Height cut off bar, the students will be required to physically select (click) on each of the horizontal locks to ensure they know their location and determine if they are functioning well. Students may find it helpful to use the “Views” menu in the top right corner to see different views of the hoist areas. 

• Next, they’ll do an overall inspection of hoist, and record the condition of each hoist arm. They’ll also need to look at each hoist pad.  

• They’ll also inspect the equalizing cables on each side of the hoist and determine if their condition is good, or if the cables are fraying.  

• The last step that students will complete is lowering the hoist. * Note, this is a 2-handed process in the shop, so it is a 2-handed process in the simulation, where students must hold the vertical lock level while lowering the hoist. 

• Now students are finished the inspection part of the simulation. When they finish, or when they select “Quit,” they’ll be able to exit to a feedback page indicating what was inspected accurately, and what, if any, areas they missed or made mistakes on. 

• They can now choose to operate a fully functional hoist, and raise/lower it with a car on it.  

• Finally, they can also see some problems, and view a functional hoist that has these problems. When a faulty hoist is chosen, students can enjoy the valuable learning without dealing with a real, valuable car.

• When they select “Complete” they’ll be able to exit the virtual learning experience.