Today, faced with the problems of global competition, increasing costs, and complex production engineering, a company can only be successfully managed if the employees are motivated and highly qualified. To cope with this demand the new educational scheme for cost-effective retraining, lifelong learning and distance education at the workplace should be introduced. This paper describes the developed Web-based Intelligent Training System used in the Bosch WebTr@iner product range. It details how Java simulation, virtual reality modeling, and animation can be used in a complementary approach to teaching complex industrial processes and systems in cost-effective, rapid and interesting way on the global scale. (Author)