A critical facilities bench that runs in a browser: ten live Site Alpha benches that behave the way the real plant does — power and the chiller plant, electrical distribution, motors and drives, instruments and PLC, BAS controls, the data-hall air side, liquid cooling, the boiler room, diesel fuel, and fire and life safety — with 113 graded drills and a floor clock. Every drill also runs live inside its matching 3D room of Site Alpha. Open a lab from any training module; the bench loads that drill, you work it, and it grades every step.
Try the demo drill → Included in every training plan — or on its own: $290 for one year of access →
Site Alpha in 3D, recorded in the browser: the power plant, the generator room during a live loss-of-utility drill (three sets on the bus, one in alarm), the boiler room and the boiler bench room. Every bench also opens flat as a panel view.
GPS-A paralleling switchgear with four 12.47 kV units, synchroscope, sync-check 25, undervoltage 27, reverse power 32. Page 2 is the central plant: chillers, pumps, towers, thermal storage and the economizer, fed from the same bus. Fail utility on page 1 and the plant reacts on page 2.
Distribution switching and lockout, UPS and bypass, motors and drives, instrument air, field instruments and calibration, the plant PLC and the BAS. Lockouts follow 29 CFR 1910.147 order; the bench refuses steps taken out of order and records them.
Data Hall 1 air side, liquid cooling on IM-1, the boiler room, diesel fuel storage and transfer, and fire and life safety. Each bench has its own panels, an HMI, a sequence-of-events recorder and a coach line that explains every blocked action.
The instructor loads a scenario. The bench sets the line-up, injects the faults, sets the time limit, and freezes until the operator presses START. Pass or NOT YET is decided by the bench from what happened on the plant, the steps taken, the safety steps skipped and the time used. The whole recorder goes on the record.
Power and plant 15, distribution 10, drives 11, instruments 11, controls 11, airside 11, liquid cooling 9, boiler 16, fuel 10, fire 9.
Every drill card opens the matching Site Alpha room with the same drill running. Walk to the equipment, operate it there, radio the control room, and carry the run from room to room with the clock still going.
Injected faults include lifted wires, stuck relays, jumpered shutdowns, dead motors and failed actuators. The drill is not over until the operator names what failed first and why.
The Virtual Bench is hosted. An operator seat gives one person every drill and a saved record of every run. A facility seat adds a roster — who has passed what, who is overdue, assign a drill to a shift, export the training record for audit. Part of the hosted Alpha 360 platform.
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The demo is the full power page with one drill, P1 loss of utility A: you press START and work it yourself. Nothing is saved. Works on a laptop; best at 1366×768 or larger.
NFPA 110, Standard for Emergency and Standby Power Systems: nfpa.org · IEEE C37.2, Electrical Power System Device Function Numbers: standards.ieee.org · OSHA 29 CFR 1910.147, The control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout): osha.gov · NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace: nfpa.org