Our second Virtual Mill was constructed using gaming technology to help users understand how flour mills operate in a fun, educational setting. The Virtual Mill provides users with the ability to "walk" around the different sections and even interact with other users; this is particularly useful for Distance Learning Programme students. It's a hub for all our training resources including e-textbooks, e-learning, video, and exercises.

The Virtual Mill contains an entire mill site, including wheat intake, laboratory, screenroom and mill building, packing line and warehouse, as well as training rooms dedicated to purifier, plansifter and roller mill, enabling students to see inside the closed milling process.

All students enrolled in the Distance Learning Programme (and their mentors) should register for access to the Virtual Mill via the training website. During the DLP course year, our tutors may invite their students to attend virtual tutorials, helping students increase their knowledge and prepare for their examinations. However, students and mentors will be free to enter the Virtual Mill as they please, using this resource at times to suit them, to further their understanding of milling.

Whilst the primary objective has been to provide a new training environment for millers, providing a medium where they can see inside the closed milling process, there is also potential for other uses and for individual companies to build their own 'project rooms' within the virtual mill. If you would like to take advantage of this technology in your business, please contact: training@ukflourmillers.org