How can ADVISOR Enterprise Help
ADVISOR Enterprise creates well designed training plans and highly effective training strategies that are efficient, and consistently up to date. Moreover, ADVISOR generates an audit trail for analysis and recommendations, ensuring compliance with various standards including CFITES, JSP 822, MIL-HDBK-29612-2A, AETC Handbook 36-2203, TRADOC Pamphlet 350-70-6, Australian Defence Model, AIA, S6000T, and EASA. ADVISOR has a proven track record and has been successfully implemented in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Singapore, and Brazil (Download ADVISOR Added Value). Key features:
Simplify the management of equipment training as follows:
- Identify key systems in equipment including versions.
- Identify operational and maintenance tasks as well as the knowledge/skills needed to operate and maintain each system.
- Generate training plan for operating and maintaining equipment based on systems.
- Identify systems within each equipment variant including versions.
- Compare variants to identify common and variant specific training.
- Identify the training requirement for each client based on variant and personnel level of expertise.
- Uncover the tasks and training for each job/role based on duties.
Speed Training Needs Analysis (TNA), Training Systems Requirements Analysis (TSRA), Training Media/Option Analysis (TMA) and Control Documents Generation by up 50% as follows:
- Streamline data collection from Subject Matter Experts through custom-built Excel spreadsheets.
- Automate Difficulty, Importance and Frequency (DIF) analysis to identify and prioritize tasks that require training.
- Provide systematic process for identifying training gaps.
- Quickly identify and rate viable delivery options by mapping instructional design requirements for each objective to the capability of each media.
- Store common measures such as hourly rates of developers, instructors, and support staff; equipment, simulators, and facilities cost in templates to quickly forecast and compare personnel/resource and costs of viable delivery options over life cycle.
- Generate compliance reports with single click.
Preserve training effectiveness and efficiency over life cycle as follows:
- Map training activities to operational & maintenance tasks to uncover training that is no longer relevant.
- Identify training requirements that are not being addressed and potential impact on performance.
- Quickly assess the impact of changes to equipment, systems, policies, regulations, etc., on courses, activities, lessons, & teaching points.
- Generate audit trail to identify where each operational requirement and regulation is being addressed.
Continually identifies venues for improving training as follows:
- Assess the alignment of training with operational requirements daily to identify gaps, unnecessary training and duplication.
- Forecast and compare the costs of viable delivery options to identify cost drivers & the optimal solution.
- Conduct multiple what-if scenarios to assess the impact of blended delivery, build-versus-buy, use of internal versus external personnel, etc.
- Uncover and mitigate bottlenecks by comparing personnel/resource requirements to available personnel/resources.
Forecast courses, activities, budget, personnel & resource requirements for any time period. This includes the number and type of developers, instructors, administrators, managers and support staff, equipment, simulators, extended reality, facilities, etc., needed for each location and any time-period. ADVISOR forecasts costs, personnel and resources based on throughput, courses/activities length, number of trainees per lesson, personnel/ resources needed for each activity, and so forth.
Identify the optimum training strategy. ADVISOR generates viable project plans and schedules based on constraints; availability of personnel/resources, etc. Plans & schedules can be rapidly updated as equipment availability, number of trainees, and so forth change. Moreover, ADVISOR identifies potential bottlenecks that may result form personnel/resource shortages and venues for minimizing delays with alternate delivery options.
Hundreds of organizations have relied on BNH Training Management System ADVISOR Enterprise to simplify and speed training analysis, forecast and optimize training resources, improve resource allocation, produce audit trails to support recommendations and generate reports that meet the requirements of various military standards. With offices in Montreal and Vermont; and associates in Florida, Virginia, Texas and the United Kingdom, we continue to expand our services while remaining responsive to the needs of our clients. A list of satisfied customers is presented below:
Aerospace Consultancy has been using ADVISOR Enterprise since 2012 to conduct Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and Training Media Analysis (TMA) for the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF).
Boeing has been using ADVISOR Enterprise since 2010 to conduct/update mission analysis, job analysis, task analysis, learning objective analysis, media analysis as well as generate Lesson Designs Reports (LDR) for Poseidon (P-8). Memorable quote ‘changes to Lesson Design Reports that would have taken days to complete, can now be generated within 20 minutes’.
CAE has been leveraging ADVISOR Enterprise capabilities since 2010 on multiple projects throughout the world. These included Operational System Training Provider (OTSP), Medium Heavy Lift Helicopter (MHLH) and Tactical Airlift (C130J) for the Canadian Armed Forces; and Tactical Airlift (C130H) for the Netherlands Ministry of Defence.
K2Share used ADVISOR Enterprise to conduct Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and Training Media Analysis (TMA) for three (3) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the US Marine Corps.
Lockheed Martin has been leveraging ADVISOR Enterprise as well as BNH consulting services on multiple projects worldwide since 2002. These included F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Read more , UK Military Flying Training System (MFTS) Read more, Basic Wing Course (BWC), Tactical Airlift (C130J), Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS) and many more.
Raytheon has been using ADVISOR Enterprise on multiple projects worldwide since 2002. These included Poseidon (P-8) for NAWCTSD, Defence Training Review (DTR) for UK MoD, Frigate Class Destroyer for Australian Navy and Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS) to Australian Defence Force. Memorable quote ‘BNH performed flawlessly through a series of five software customizations, and all products were delivered on time. Staff was extremely helpful in identifying better and more economical ways to customize their product for our customers’ specific needs. I would not hesitate to recommend BNH.’
Sikorsky used ADVISOR Enterprise on multiple projects including Blackhawk (H-60) for US Army, King Stallion (CH-53K) for US Marine Corps and Cyclone (CH-148) for the Canadian Armed Forces.
ÅF Technology has been using ADVISOR Enterprise since 2015 to conduct Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and Training Media Analysis (TMA) for the Swedish Armed Forces.
SNC-Lavalin retained BNH in 2013 to assess the impact of the new Polar Icebreaker (PIB) design on the training needs of the Canadian Coast Guard crew. Since most equipment onboard the ship had not yet been selected, the training requirements for each system was categorized as significant, moderate or minor based on crew’s experience with comparable systems; courses needed by each job/position were then identified based on role/responsibility; and rough order magnitude (ROM) costs were forecasted. Read more.
US Falcon has been using ADVISOR Enterprise since 2013 to conduct Training Systems Requirement Analysis (TSRA) for the US Air Force Space Command. Memorable quote ‘ADVISOR simplified data validation. Tasks, including reference codes for each position, could easily be exported to Excel and sent to SMEs for review. A step that could have taken up to two-and-a-half weeks to perform is now generated within one hour.’ Read more.
BAE Systems Hägglunds manufactures various ground vehicles products. These include the Armoured Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV), CV90 and others. BAE is using ADVISOR Enterprise to manage the training requirements of various variants and generate control documents and training plans to meet the specific needs of each country. Read more.
SkyAlyne is using ADVISOR Enterprise to manage the training requirements of the Future Aircrew Training (FAcT) program for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The FAcT program is a transformative 25-year initiative valued at $11.2 billion. It represents a pivotal advancement in preparing Canadian Military Pilots, Air Combat Systems Officers, and Airborne Electronic Sensor Operators for future challenges. Read more.
Irving Shipbuilding is using ADVISOR Enterprise to manage the training requirements of the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) program for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). CSC is the largest, most complex procurement project ever undertaken by the Government of Canada to-date. As the Prime Contractor for CSC, Irving Shipbuilding will bring their modern and innovative approach to the construction of 15 ships at the Halifax Shipyard. These state-of-the-art vessels will replace the Royal Canadian Navy’s Halifax-Class frigates and Iroquois-Class destroyers. Read more.