If it seems like life is one big simulator, that's because FAAC is hard at work. The Ann Arbor-based firm specializes in creating simulators for everything from trucks to missiles.
The company has done it so successfully that it averages 30 percent revenue growth per year and normally has three positions ranging from engineer to project manager open. The firm has more than doubled its number of employees to 115 and added 6,000 square feet of space to its campus to make room for that growth.
"We're adding people all of the time," says David Bouwkamp, executive director of business development for FAAC.
All of this growth has also resulted in a jump in market share as the company, a subsidiary of Arotech, branches out into more and more simulation products. Its products provide real-life simulation experiences of automobiles, mass transit vehicles, public safety officials and military weapons.
For instance it can do a weapon's simulation for public safety officers. That program plays out different scenarios as say a police officer tries to apprehend a suspect with everything from a baton to a pistol.
"The student interacts with a high-definition screen," Bouwkamp says.
A situation where real life people personally interact with simulators.
Source: David Bouwkamp, executive director of business development for FAAC
Writer: Jon Zemke
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