Archive for January, 2010

Developing Skilled Maintenance Professionals

Friday, January 29th, 2010

In today’s manufacturing environment, more and more companies are having a difficult time finding skilled maintenance employees. Competing for skilled industrial workers with other companies can become a time consuming task, and this is time that can be spent on more important projects. So why not recruit and train your own skilled team?

Consider hiring recent graduates for entry-level positions and some non-entry level positions. The best entry-level maintenance candidates to hire are people with a solid math, science and engineering background. In addition, they should be somewhat familiar with how a manufacturing plant works and understand how some of the major equipment are used and repaired.  Any business should understand that the best employees are the ones willing and able to learn new skills and the best employers are the ones prepared to become teachers.

With the right kind of maintenance training, you can expect your new employees to become knowledgeable about the subjects in their field such as maintenance procedures, repair procedure, safety procedures, and much more. We are experts at developing maintenance training programs that can become a part of your business strategy.  Our maintenance training programs can help companies save money, increase product quality, and retain employees. Plus, new employees bring fresh ideas and solutions to long-standing issues.

We know that highly-skilled workers are vital to a company’s future growth and productivity, which is why ITC Learning offers cost-effective training classes to help your employees become more knowledgeable in the subjects you decide best. We can help you create your own assets.

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Creating Training Materials

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Training materials are an important part of any industrial training, maintenance training, manufacturing training, mechanical training, or plant training course. By providing your employees with training materials, you are giving them the information they need to become better workers as well as show them what is expected of them.

We are experts at creating industrial training, maintenance training, manufacturing training, mechanical training, and plant training materials for your company. When you work with us, we’ll work closely with you to assess your company and the type of equipment you use and the products you manufacture. Once this has been completed, we’ll collaborate with you to decide what things are should be included and which ones you might want to do without. For instance, we’ll include information on the type of protective clothing to wear and the procedures to use when operating or repairing machinery. Our training materials will also include diagrams of certain machines that might be hard to understand. This will help employees to see how certain machines are put together and how they work. We can also create a step by step guide on training for the machines your company uses. This will help your employees understand what machine does what and what training is needed to operate different machines.

We can also create training materials on the actual programs that you use to operate the different machines. And if you have programs that operate different machines, we create training materials for those programs, so your employees know how to operate the different programs. This is important because if you have a machine that goes down they can also check the systems to make sure that everything is running correctly in them as well as everything on the machine. At ITC Learning, we are experts at designing and developing training materials for your online classes.

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Training and Retraining your Manufacturing Employees

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Keeping that competitive edge means training and retraining your manufacturing employees. This should not be looked at as a chore because it is essential to growing your business. For instance, you’ll need to retrain your employees when new methods or equipment are introduced or when jobs for which employees have been trained are phased out. ITC Learning is here to help your manufacturing employees become familiar with the new skills they will need to perform their jobs. This will allow you to accomplish tasks internally without having to utilize outside resources.  In addition, it is important to train and retrain your manufacturing team because it will:

  • Create consistency in implementation
  • Improve safety
  • Increase employee loyalty, productivity, and boost morale
  • Impart the ability to recognize improvement opportunities
  • Increase employee confidence
  • And help attract and retain employees

Whether you want to train a significant or small number of people, ITC Learning can help you find or customize a training class to suit your company’s needs. By retraining your existing manufacturing employees, you are giving them the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the little things they might have forgotten that are supposed to go along with their job. In addition, this will show your existing employees new and better ways of doing things. ITC Learning provides user-friendly approaches to training your employees. One of the best things about ITC Learning’s training program is that the class can be done on-site at your company. All your employees need is a computer with internet access. Our manufacturing training class can be done at your staff’s pace while still maintaining your company’s current workload. Every manufacturing company needs to train and retrain their employees to ensure that they have the proper skills to do their jobs safely and correctly.

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Custom-designed training classes

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

If you’ve uncovered specific training needs that generic training programs are unable to meet, we can custom-design an online training program for your employees. Regardless of whether you’re an industrial company, maintenance company, manufacturing company, mechanical company, or plant, we can create a program for you. We will collaborate with you to identify the subjects that we’ll need to create an online training program for. We will tailor the content and the length of the training to suit your company’s needs.

ITC Learning’s custom-designed online training programs will help your employees to:

  • Learn unique skills and knowledge to perform their jobs correctly
  • Operate equipment or use a process that gives your company a competitive edge in the marketplace
  • Perform a particular job consistently at different locations throughout the company

We can design and develop a single training program or an entire curriculum for your company. ITC Learning can turn your company’s processes and procedures into well-organized materials that can be easily administered by your training manager or selected employee.

Our courses will deliver relevant and the most modern concepts and techniques as well as use methodical testing to foster your employees understanding. We are experts at helping companies accomplish the learning objectives and exceed their expectations. We have previously custom-designed:

  • Industrial training programs
  • Maintenance training programs
  • Manufacturing training programs
  • Mechanical training programs
  • Plant training programs
  • Multimedia courseware
  • Training analysis
  • And print-based courseware

We can also create a program to assess the effectiveness of your training course to evaluate the programs strengthens and weaknesses. Our trainers are professionals with a proven track record of expertise in their field. Our training programs will help your company reduce training costs and time.  When a company needs to develop a training program that will teach their employees about the products they provide and the equipment they use, we can help.

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Mechanical Maintenance Training

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

In today’s competitive marketplace, a company with reliable equipment and well-trained mechanical maintenance employees will have a competitive edge. By training your employees to understand the different predictive maintenance measures, they will have the tools needed to prolong your equipment and prevent major problems.

ITC Learning’s predictive maintenance program is designed for both maintenance personnel and equipment operators. Our predictive maintenance program involves key topics such as vibration analysis, lubricant and trend analysis, techniques for extending bearing life and much more. These classes will show your employees how to assess the equipment maintenance needs based on quantifies materials and equipment condition.

We understand that a well-orchestrated predictive maintenance program will enable you to eliminate most catastrophic equipment failures. In addition, parts or equipment will not need to be ordered ahead of time to support anticipated maintenance needs. This will also allow your equipment to be operated at an optimal level, which will also save energy costs and increase plant reliability.

By training your employee to become knowledgeable and skilled at predicative maintenance, your company will reap newfound efficiency and ultimately deliver greater profitability. We have an excellent track record when it comes to performance improvement.  We can help!

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Annual Skills Testing

Monday, January 4th, 2010

The end of the year is the perfect time to evaluate your employees industrial, maintenance, manufacturing, mechanical, and plant skills. By evaluating your employees skills you’ll know be able to assess an individual’s mastery of a particular subject or procedure. In an industrial, maintenance, mechanical, plant or manufacturing workplace, it’s important to know what your employees are capable of doing. Do they have skills you don’t know about or are they unfamiliar with a subject they should be knowledgeable in?

ITC Learning can provide effective yearly industrial, maintenance, manufacturing, mechanical, and plant skills testing for your employee. We have a 7000 question database of performance based questions and tools to evaluate your employees skills easily via the web. If we don’t carry an assessment test that you need, we can easily custom design one for staff. ITC Learning’s online skills assessment test will provide you with a report about your employee’s knowledge in the different subject areas.  Our online assessment skills tests allow us to create a targeted training plan for each of your employees.

For your mechanical maintenance employees, we can evaluate their valve repair skills, mechanical seals skills, hydraulic systems knowledge, and much more.

We know that it is only when an employee realize that they’re unfamiliar about certain subjects or procedures and that their performance has been lacking can they improve. By putting in place a yearly or bi-annual skills assessment, you’ll be able to assess your employee’s strengths and weaknesses. This will also make them more attuned to doing their jobs better. It’s wise to test your employees industrial, maintenance, manufacturing, mechanical, and plant skills; This strategy of empowerment has worked well for many Fortune 500 companies.

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Repairing and maintaining your industrial or manufacturing plant equipment

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Keeping your industrial or manufacturing plant running smoothly is critical to your company’s the bottom line. By training your employees to operate as well as maintain and repair your simple and complex equipment, you will reduce the amount of money you spend on new machinery. Our industrial plant and manufacturing plant training program will familiarize your employees with the different equipment and how to proficiently operate the machinery, respond to, and fix problems.

The goal of our classes is to train your employs to properly operate, maintain, and repair these expensive machines. Our equipment maintenance training course will educate your employees about how to operate and repair equipment such as gate valves, centrifugal pumps, displacement pumps, and other equipment. Our training program will also help you detect minor as well as major repair problems.

By creating and adhering to a regular maintenance schedule, your industrial plant and manufacturing machines will work efficiently and last longer. Our equipment maintenance training program will also show your employees how to clean and lubricate the machinery, to perform preoperational checks, and test damaged parts to determine whether minor or major repair is required. This is an excellent training program for industrial and manufacturing companies that need to better train their employees.

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