Lunchbox Hydraulic Videos
Nell Barreto
All the innovative, interactive media from our award-winning courses is now available online. This is the best way to build and maintain your hydraulic and electrical knowledge, right on your computer or mobile device.
Step-by-step lessons take you through the fundamental concepts and tricky troubleshooting scenarios. Get your hands on over 180 of our interactive Live Schematic simulations, which put you in control of load sensing pumps, pilot operated directional control valves, and detailed system configurations. The schematics come to life and show you where fluid and electricity is flowing, how much pressure or voltage is in every line, and the nuanced behavior of each component. Activities make sure you know how the pieces fit together, like the many moving pieces inside a pressure compensated piston pump. 3D animated videos fly you inside the machine, so we can teach you about the invisible forces and functions happening deep down in your system.
You can start exploring now with dozens of lessons and simulations available for free, no account needed. When you're ready, pay just $29 USD to unlock the entire library of over 500 learning materials. Of course, we're refining and adding new content every month, so it all keeps getting better. When you become a paid member, you also get access to our dynamic quizzing system, which is a fantastic way to stay on top of what you learn.
In 1999, Carl and Lenore Dyke launched an industrial education and consulting business in Calgary. Carl took his earliest career experiences as a millwright in the sawmill industry and his seven years of teaching welding/fabrication and electronics/robotics at the high school level and sought to create a unique enterprise to help solve learning problems in heavy industry.
Today, the small garage startup has grown into CD Industrial Group Inc. (CDIG). The company employs nine people, including three trainers. There are currently 39 different courses offered in a variety of heavy industries including pulp and paper, sawmilling, oilfield, mining, construction, civic machinery fleets, shipping terminals, and electrical utilities.
The company figured that by putting its learning materials online, it could reach people anywhere in the world. And because the online audience is so much bigger than our classroom audience, it offers this type of media at a much lower price.
Building it better
According to Carl, right from the start, they had the idea that we wanted people to come to the website, make an account, and begin exploring our growing library of simulations and lessons.
Inside the sessions are lessons that explain key ideas with writing and illustration, videos that take you inside 3D renderings of industrial components, interactive simulations and puzzles that let you explore system behavior and make you demonstrate to yourself that you understand. All of these types of content serve to reinforce the idea of the session. And when a learner comes back to that session after a few weeks or months to refresh your knowledge, the variety helps keep the material feeling fresh.
Finding success
As the years wore on, Carl and his team figured out all the ways they could make LunchBox Sessions categorically better than all the other training solutions on the market, they gradually started rolling out access to a few of our corporate clients.
The current site includes 22 hydraulic sessions, as well as 19 focused on electrical, and 11 on machinery. There are approximately 10,000 users from 91 different countries. The vast majority of users are in the United States, with second place going to Canada. Rounding out the top five are the Russian Federation, Australia, and Kazakhstan.
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