CORYS and POMA are continuing a collaboration that began in 2016, when CORYS delivered POMA a cable transport driving simulator for ETAC’s training centre in Algeria. This new milestone focuses on POMA’s LIFE range of gondola lifts.
The project started with a Proof of Concept (POC) aimed at validating the connection between the CORYS simulator and the digital control-command system developed by POMA’s safety automation and electrical engineering experts, already in use on operating cable cars and gondola lifts. This POC demonstrated the two systems’ ability to communicate effectively and validated the technical approach chosen.
Building on this result, POMA chose to go further by directly integrating the POC developments into its existing simulators. This implementation will allow POMA’s own teams to train cable transport system operators, starting with the urban gondola lift in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, followed by the new gondola lift in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Project sponsor on POMA’s side, Michael Fauché, spoke about this collaboration at the latest SimTech 2025, CORYS’s annual user conference:
“Simulation has a growing role to play in our innovative transport projects.” He notably highlighted POMA’s interest in modernizing its simulators’ user interface, with a proof-of-concept prototype developed with CORYS faithfully reproducing the ergonomics of real control stations, a key point in enabling operators to react quickly in the event of a problem.
The cooperation doesn’t stop there: the two companies have signed a new contract to supply simulators in Dominican Republic and have already planned to further develop these simulators by replacing the current visual component, based on former technology, with CORYS’s latest Unreal Engine technology, bringing even greater visual realism to operator training.
This new collaboration reflects POMA’s renewed confidence in CORYS to support the international deployment of its cable transport solutions, and confirms CORYS’s ability to interface with the control-command technologies of major players in sustainable mobility.
