# Mevea - Real-Time Simulation and Digital Twin Solutions > Mevea is a Finnish simulation technology company providing real-time, physics-based digital twin software and heavy-equipment simulator solutions for product development, operator training, engineering education, and research. Mevea solutions are used across ports, construction, mining, forestry, and related heavy-equipment applications. Mevea develops real-time simulation software for physics-based virtual prototypes and digital twins. Mevea digital twins can represent machine mechanics, hydraulics, power transmission, operating environments, work processes, virtual sensors, and interfaces to external machine control systems. ## About Mevea - [About Mevea](https://mevea.com/about/): Overview of Mevea, its physics-based Digital Twin technology, customers, industries, and company background. - [Our Story](https://mevea.com/about/our-story/): History of Mevea from its founding in 2005 as a spin-off from Lappeenranta University of Technology to its development as an international real-time simulation technology company. ## Core Solutions - [Mevea Simulation Solutions](https://mevea.com/): Overview of Mevea solutions for heavy-equipment operator training, product development, engineering education, research, simulation software, and simulator hardware. - [Training Simulators for Port Equipment](https://mevea.com/solutions/training-simulators/port-equipment/): Advanced physics-based training simulators for assessing, training, and developing port equipment operators in realistic virtual environments. Train multiple operators globally, fast, safely, effectively and cost-efficiently with multiple scenarios. - [Product Development](https://mevea.com/solutions/product-development/): Simulation-based product development using virtual prototypes and physics-based digital twins for machine design, testing, control-system development, autonomous and assistive systems, and virtual validation. - [Academic Solutions](https://mevea.com/solutions/academic-solutions/): Real-time simulation software, digital twins, and simulator systems for engineering education, academic research, and industrial research collaboration. ## Simulation Technology - [Mevea Real-Time Simulation Software](https://mevea.com/solutions/software/): Mevea Modeller, Mevea Solver, and Mevea I/O Toolbox for creating and running real-time physics-based digital twins. Supports machine mechanics, hydraulics, power transmission, virtual environments, work processes, sensors, control-system integration, ROS and ROS2, Unity, FMI, MATLAB/Simulink, and other development environments. - [Mevea Simulator Hardware](https://mevea.com/solutions/hardware/): Simulator hardware platforms for operator training and simulation applications, ranging from desktop systems to motion-enabled simulator platforms, Remote Operation Stations, and Instructor Stations. ## Training Simulator Applications - [Port Equipment Training Simulators](https://mevea.com/solutions/training-simulators/port-equipment/): Training solutions for port cranes and mobile port equipment, including STS, RTG, RMG, mobile harbour cranes, reach stackers, straddle carriers, terminal tractors, forklifts, and related equipment. - [Mevea Remote Operation Station](https://mevea.com/solutions/hardware/mevea-remote-operation-station-ros/): High-fidelity simulator platform for training operators of remotely controlled, automated, and semi-autonomous port equipment and heavy machinery. ## Customer Success Stories - [Mevea Customer Success Stories](https://mevea.com/success-stories/): Customer cases covering operator training, product development, research, virtual prototyping, testing, and Digital Twin applications. - [Terminal Portuario de Guayaquil (TPG)](https://mevea.com/success-stories/success-story-terminal-portuario-de-guayaquil-tpg/): Container-terminal operator training using customized Mevea simulators to improve safety, operator readiness, training efficiency, and availability of production equipment. - [Normet](https://mevea.com/success-stories/mevea-success-story-with-normet/): Digital Twin and simulation applications for underground mining and tunnelling equipment, including product development, virtual design evaluation, operator training, and lifecycle use of simulation models. - [VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland](https://mevea.com/success-stories/vtt-technical-research-centre-finland/): Virtual prototyping and real-time simulation for control-system development and testing using virtual machines and real control hardware and software. - [Sandvik Mining](https://mevea.com/success-stories/sandvik-mining/): Virtual product validation and real-time simulation used to evaluate machine concepts and reduce dependency on physical prototypes during mining-equipment development. ## Resources - [Resources](https://mevea.com/resources/): Gateway to Mevea news, technical and commercial materials, ebooks, brochures, webinars, videos, and other simulation and Digital Twin resources. - [FAQ](https://mevea.com/solutions/faq/): Frequently asked questions about Mevea simulation software, training simulators, simulator hardware, remote operations, VR/AR, delivery, and related solutions. - [News & Events](https://mevea.com/news-events/): Current Mevea company news, customer projects, technology developments, events, webinars, and product announcements. - [Videos](https://mevea.com/resources/videos/): Customer cases and demonstrations showing Mevea Digital Twin, product-development, testing, and operator-training applications. ## Optional - [Sitemap Index](https://mevea.com/sitemap_index.xml): Complete XML sitemap index for discovering additional Mevea website content.