Archive for December, 2009

Finding the right industrial or manufacturing training class

Monday, December 21st, 2009

It can be hard to find the right industrial or manufacturing training curriculum to suit your company’s unique needs and all successful companies have knowledgeable employees working for them.  ITC Learning has the right courses to enhance your on-the-job training programs. Your staff is one of your company’s biggest assets. You need to make sure that they are properly trained in the specific industrial or manufacturing skill set within their job functions. Many employees have initial training from college courses, but they will still need on-the-job training classes to make them improve their skills.

ITC Learning can provide training for a wide array of subjects that are directly related to the careers that your company offers. We offer industrial lubrication courses, valve repair courses, precision measuring instruments courses, and many others. Our classes have been designed and developed with the industrial and manufacturing worker in mind. When you work with us, we’ll help you select the courses that cover the subject matters that your employees need to know. To help your company retain and develop talented employees, we provide accurate and complete training courses about the subjects and the different equipment that your employees will be dealing with on a daily basis.

If we don’t have a course you need, we can also custom design a training course to fit your company’s specific needs. Visit the Custom Development page to see courses we have custom developed for other companies.

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Developing your industrial managers training skills

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Training skilled employees starts with training the manager or supervisor. Before you select a manager to train your industrial and manufacturing employees, you should identify if they have

the ability to teach others, strong facilitation skills, and patience. But the most important characteristic is that the selected trainer should be knowledgeable about the subject they will be teaching. This is important because they’re the ones in charge of administering the training program. Whether you’re a manufacturing, industrial or maintenance company, ITC Learning’s training program will effectively train your trainers.

Our training courses are designed to educate managers about:

  • The training process
  • How to assess the students skills and attitudes
  • How to plan for effective training
  • How to facilitate learning
  • Methods for teaching information and skills
  • How to evaluate the effectiveness of the course
  • And many other skills

Whether you need to train inexperienced trainers or professionals, our curriculum will teach your managers how to motivate and assist your industrial and manufacturing employees to become better workers. Our train the trainer program has been developed with the industrial manager and worker in mind. One of the best parts about training your manufacturing, industrial or maintenance manager is that they can improve their skills by completing our 14 videotapes/DVD’s training series. Our train the trainer program is an affordable way to develop your managerial staff’s skills.

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Providing proper safety training skills

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Safety is a paramount concern for all industrial, mechanical, and manufacturing personnel. Poorly trained employees are more likely to have accidents unlike those that have proper safety training. We know that keeping your employees safe will reduce absenteeism, injuries, worker’s compensation claims, and lawsuits. These issues can negatively impact your company’s bottom line. To prevent this, managers and employees should know what precautionary measures to take as well as what to do when mechanical and manufacturing safety issues arise.

ITC Learning carries a wide variety of safety courses available on CD-ROM and online to educate workers about the safety risks and inform them of some best practice safety procedures. Regardless of whether you’re looking for industrial safety training, mechanical safety training, or manufacturing safety training classes, ITC Learning can help you find the right ones for your company. Our safety training courses include respiratory protection, first aid/CPR, confined space entry, crane safety, and asbestos awareness. These courses will enlighten both beginners and veterans on the procedures they should follow to ensure a better and safer workplace. We always keep our training materials up-to-date on the latest safety training rules to ensure that you are following the right procedures.

Regardless of whether you’re a manager in the industrial, mechanical or manufacturing industry, safety procedures should always be followed to ensure that all possible injuries and accidents are prevented to the best of everyone’s ability. Two ways to reduce accident is to educate your staff and schedule regular equipment maintenance. In addition, by scheduling 1 to 2 hours out of the week for a manufacturing safety training course, you can save your company time and money. This is a smart investment in your company’s future.

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Developing your employees maintenance and industrial skills

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Companies that need to develop or improve their employee’s industrial maintenance training knowledge are often unsure of where to start. Well, ITC Learning has the answer to that question. Our online skills based assessment tools will evaluate your employee’s skills to accurately identify the areas that need to be improved or refreshed. This is a simple and easy process. The online skills based assessment will provide each of your employees with an individualized maintenance training and industrial training curriculum focused on mechanical and electrical maintenance. ITC can provide the assessment for one or several employees, a department, or your entire company.

We have developed a maintenance training and industrial training program delivered via multiple methods; CD-ROM, DVD/Video and/or online classes. As the manager, you have the ability to set the pace of the course and you decide when to and where to utilize our course materials. Each lesson in the maintenance training and industrial training skills courses will provide educational information, real life examples, eye-catching graphics, quizzes and interactive media to make the learning process interesting and effective. For instance, the Distributed Control series in our Mechanical Maintenance training program is an eight part lesson that trains participants about maintaining:

  • Distributed Control Fundamentals
  • Maintaining Distributed Control Systems
  • Electronic Maintenance
  • Pressure and Temperature Transmitters
  • Flow Transmitters
  • Level and Weight Transmitters
  • Transducers, Recorders, and Annunciators
  • Electronic Controllers

After completing our program, your maintenance personnel and plant managers will be equipped to handle and solve all forms of maintenance and industrial issues. ITC Learning’s training courses are designed to help you create a competent, qualified and efficient workforce.

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