Leave it to the techies in the creative haven that is Royal Oak to come up with a way to create real jobs out of a simulated world.
Realtime Technologies is looking to expand it product lines and employee base incrementally over the next few years. The simulator-development company has grown to 15 employees in three offices across the U.S. in its first 10 years and hopes to add a few more people this year.
"We hope to continue to grow and stay on a growth pattern," says Clayne Woodbury, sales manager for Realtime Technologies. "We're hardly growing out of control. It's more controlled growth."
But well on its way, winning a contract to help develop an automotive simulator for Daimler, former parent company of Chrysler. It also is innovating new ways to use simulator technology, such as simulating soil shifting for environmental firms.
The company hopes to expand its reach in the simulator world developing everything custom simulator technology that can be used in things as frivolous as video games to other things as serious as hospitals. But for now it focuses on ground vehicles and growing its current real-world client base.
Source: Clayne Woodbury, sales manager for Realtime Technologies
Writer: Jon Zemke
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