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VR Training for Injection Moulding

Avatar Academy delivers VR training for injection moulding operators. Train your team faster, safer, with zero machine downtime. Trusted by Denroy, Technimark and Trend Technologies across Ireland and UK.

The plastics industry is facing a growing skills gap. Operators take too long to reach full productivity, training on live machines costs time and material, and proving competency to customers and auditors is harder than it should be.

Avatar Academy changes that. Immersive VR training for injection moulding operators, developed in collaboration with polymer industry experts, that gets your team machine-ready faster, safer, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional training.

Why Injection Moulding Training Is Broken

Every plastics manufacturer knows the challenge. Skilled operator shortages are putting pressure on every shift. Training on live injection moulding machines means downtime, scrap, and safety risk. New starters take too long to reach full productivity. And when training is inconsistent, part quality suffers.

Proving operator competency,  to ISO auditors, to customers, to your own management team, is harder than it should be when training happens informally on the shop floor with no record of what was covered or how well it was understood.

The injection moulding skills gap is real. And the pressure is growing.

Animated GIF showing a trainee operating a virtual injection moulding machine – pressing control buttons, inspecting a finished part for defects, and opening the machine door.

How Avatar Academy Works

Manufacturing VR training – hands-on scenarios and competency dashboard
Avatar Academy is an VR training platform. Delivered via XR headset, it puts operators inside a photorealistic virtual injection moulding machine, indistinguishable from the real thing, where they interact with machine parameters and observe the consequences of their settings before ever touching live equipment.
There are no controllers to learn. Hand tracking is the sole input method, meaning any operator can pick up a headset and begin learning within minutes. Accessibility options, including seated or standing use, adjustable font sizes, and configurable audio, mean the platform works for every learner. Training is managed through the Avatar Academy Web Portal, giving administrators full visibility.

Ready to see it for yourself?

Watch how Denroy, Trend Technologies, and Technimark are using Avatar Academy to train their injection moulding operators.

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