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December 2017 | ISE Magazine 13 Educators have spent centuries trying to make learning fun, and now Finnish company Neste Jacobs is bringing enter- tainment to operator training in the process industry. NAPCON Games Distiller is billed as the first in a new generation of training games for industry. While the goal is to train operators, the game is fun and engaging for other players. Games Distiller can be used in nearly any branch of the process industry that includes distillation. Sophisticated scoring systems and instant feedback help players track their progress and learn at a faster pace compared to traditional training methods. After piloting the game with customers, Neste Jacobs re- ported that players thought it was suitable for their training needs, and 75 percent said their learning time was decreased. The NAPCON Games Distiller can be used by operators on all levels and also can be used by universities and other educational institutes. The company plans more training games for other fields in the process industry in the future. Gamification reaches the process industry Neste Jacobs launches ground-breaking operator training game that private vehicles have a 4 percent utilization rate; the free- floating car sharing model ups that to 15 percent to 18 percent. What's more, one car could take the place of seven to 11 vehi- cles in a metro area. In other words, the website asks, imagine a Los Angeles transportation system based on 1 million instead of 6 million vehicles. Car-sharing experiments have taken place in several Euro- pean cities, according to Wards Auto magazine. Berlin's Statt- Auto was launched in 1988 as part of university research to demonstrate that car sharing could offer viable transportation. As of last year, the magazine reported, Berlin has Car2Go, a Daimler subsidiary, and DriveNow, a BMW subsidiary with 180,000 customers. Daimler AG's Frank Ruff, a senior manager for the compa- ny's Society and Technology Research Group, estimated that the world has only 300,000 shared cars. But that's more than were in Amsterdam and San Francisco 50 years ago. And Zip- car offers shared vehicles in more than 50 cities across North America and Europe, along with 300 university and college programs. How fast car sharing will catch on and how far it will go are open questions. However, when Schimmelpennink and others started pushing bicycles over cars for inner city transportation in the 1960s, city officials in Amsterdam and other municipali- ties virtually laughed them out of the room. Now, Amsterdam tourist officials claim 58 percent of city residents over the age of 12 bike on a daily basis, covering 2 million kilometers (1.24 million miles) a day. For ISE magazine's earlier profile of Schimmelpennink, visit www.iise.org/ISEmagazi e/Ja 2017/Hughes. Neste Jacobs arranges the Operator World Cup, where the best operators in the world compete by playing the NAPCON Games Distiller. The finals will be held in Houston in February. Photo copyright Neste Jacobs