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	<title>Industry News &#124; Industrial and Maintenance Training &#187; Plant Training</title>
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		<title>Industrial Skills Training for Small Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/09/08/industrial-skills-training-for-small-companies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are human, we make mistakes. However, in a small or mid-sized industrial plant mistakes can be extremely costly. These errors are usually committed because of omissions or lack of knowledge on your employees’ part. A good strategy to reduce errors is to provide industrial skills training to your employees. Many small and mid-sized companies [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People are human, we make mistakes. However, in a small or mid-sized industrial plant mistakes can be extremely costly. These errors are usually committed because of omissions or lack of knowledge on your employees’ part. A good strategy to reduce errors is to provide industrial skills training to your employees. Many small and mid-sized companies can benefit from addressing their employee needs and finding out what subjects they need to be taught. This is an excellent way to get consistent results from your employees and the equipment. </p>
<p>ITC Learning offers industrial skills training courses in industrial lubrication, mechanical seals, centrifugal pump repair, and more. We have designed our classes to train your employees to become experts in their field. For instance, our maintenance training classes will show them how to operate the machinery properly, prevent failure, and prolong the equipment life. Even small companies need to have more than one maintenance employees on hand. What happens when one person is out sick, on vacation or has to attend a conference out of town? After completing our industrial training courses, you will be able to see an increase in the quality of work performed by your newly trained employees and your equipment reliability. Plus, they’ll now have the knowledge to move up in the organization. Why not utilize our industrial training courses as a part of your company’s effort to stay competitive in the marketplace? </p>
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		<title>When Accidents Happen</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/08/16/when-accidents-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 87 days the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has finally been plugged. This unfortunate accident is the biggest example of what happens when equipment such as valves and other instruments are not maintained properly. It’s possible that if the companies involved had a worst case scenario plan for their employees to implement, the disaster [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After 87 days the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has finally been plugged. This unfortunate accident is the biggest example of what happens when equipment such as valves and other instruments are not maintained properly. It’s possible that if the companies involved had a worst case scenario plan for their employees to implement, the disaster would not have been so catastrophic.  But industrial companies can take note and use this disaster as a lesson to ensure that something like this never happens to them. </p>
<p>So whether you operate a chemical manufacturing plant, product manufacturing facility or other facility, having an industrial training and maintenance training program in place is important. Not only should you check to make sure that your industrial employees are properly trained, but it’s also important to ensure that all equipment is frequently monitored and checked for safety problems. Once these issues are found they should never be ignored and equipment inspections should never be skipped, even if there were no problems found in the last few inspections. This is a lesson that the oil giant is learning the hard way. </p>
<p>Industrial and equipment standards need to be maintained at all times to ensure that the equipment continue to operate in proper working order.  ITC Learning provides globe and control valve maintenance training classes that are designed to teach individuals to identify the parts of a gate valve and describe their functions; inspect a valve and make adjustments to stop leakage; remove, disassemble and reassemble the bonnet assembly of a gate valve as well as disassemble and inspect a control valve for damage. This is just a few of the topics discussed in ITC Learning’s industrial training courses. Now, we all know that small mistakes can become costly catastrophes pretty quickly, so don’t make the same mistake and consider implementing a comprehensive industrial training program today. </p>
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		<title>Mechanical Training</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/06/17/mechanical-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the industrial revolution, our society has becomes more and more dependent upon the use of machinery to power and operate our plants and factories. Today, there is an even greater dependency upon those individuals that are skilled at keeping those machines running smoothly.  It’s the mechanics, hydraulics technicians, electricians, and operators who are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since the industrial revolution, our society has becomes more and more dependent upon the use of machinery to power and operate our plants and factories. Today, there is an even greater dependency upon those individuals that are skilled at keeping those machines running smoothly.  It’s the mechanics, hydraulics technicians, electricians, and operators who are the unsung heroes that keep everything from the power plant machines to electrical systems running smoothly. What would we do without them? The good news is that we’ll never have to find out. </p>
<p>In fact, ITC Learning offers a wide range of mechanical training courses to keep industrial companies staffed at all times. By utilizing our training courses, your employees will learn about the different elements necessary for them to do their jobs. The courses will also teach them how to maintain, modify, and fix different types of equipment at their plant. Regardless of the complexity of your employee’s mechanical jobs, ITC Learning has the <a href="http://www.itclearning.com/products/online-courses/hydraulic-power.html">mechanical training </a>classes to suit your company’s needs. </p>
<p>By utilizing ITC Learning’s training program, even if you have only one trained mechanical professional on staff during each shift they should be able to fix any small or large problems that may arise. In today’s economic market, a well-trained employee is important to the continued success of your organization. This is one place where not providing adequate mechanical training can be detrimental to your company.  So regardless of the mechanical task, as long as there is technology and machinery, there will be a need for well-trained mechanical employees.  </p>
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		<title>How to Identify your Industrial Training Needs</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/06/10/how-to-identify-your-industrial-training-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know when to walk your dog, change your eye contact solution and take your car to the mechanic.  These things come naturally to us………… or the directions tell us when it’s time. But do you know when your employees need training? You can identify whether an industrial training program is need by asking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know when to walk your dog, change your eye contact solution and take your car to the mechanic.  These things come naturally to us………… or the directions tell us when it’s time. But do you know when your employees need training? You can identify whether an industrial training program is need by asking yourself:</p>
<p>•	How well are we doing?<br />
•	How productive are our employees?<br />
•	If there is already an industrial training program in place, how effective is it?<br />
•	What departments or employees could benefit from training?<br />
•	Does our current training program cover all our employees’ job descriptions?<br />
•	Are our employees’ familiar with all the equipment and operational procedures necessary to do their<br />
        jobs?<br />
•	Are they familiar with all the safety rules and regulations of our facility/plant?<br />
•	What’s the quality of our products or services?<br />
•	Has it improved or gotten worse over the past few months or years?<br />
•	Are our clients satisfied with our products or services?<br />
•	Are we on track to achieve our long-term business goals?<br />
•	Are we doing well compared to our competitors?<br />
•	How is our bottom line? Could it be better?<br />
•	What are our business goals?<br />
•	How do I achieve them? </p>
<p>After you’ve done this, you can talk to your staff one-on-one or in groups to identity their training needs and how the organization can improve its overall productivity. This is also a great way to find out insightful information from employees who have firsthand knowledge of what needs to be done. </p>
<p>You can compare the information you’ve gathered from your staff to the list you’ve created to see what you really need. Plus, by doing this you can identity what it will take to reach your company’s goals. Once you’ve done this you can start creating a list of the equipment and subjects your employees need to be trained on. </p>
<p>An in-house training program is the best way to go, and ITC Learning offers a comprehensive curriculum of <a href="http://www.itclearning.com/products/custom-development/online-assessments.html">industrial training classes</a>. We will provide you with all the materials you need to do your training in-house. You can choose from our online, CD-ROM or DVD/Video training classes. We can even test your employees to see how knowledgeable they are about a specific topic. Remember, investing in an industrial training program is an excellent way to increase profit and productivity. </p>
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		<title>What’s the Cost of Doing Nothing?</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/06/07/what%e2%80%99s-the-cost-of-doing-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people fear change, but sometimes the cost of maintaining the status quo is too high. Often, we would rather do nothing than upset the balance. It&#8217;s even become a default solution. But in a manufacturing plant, doing nothing can be detrimental to both the equipment and the facility as a whole. Yet in many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people fear change, but sometimes the cost of maintaining the status quo is too high. Often, we would rather do nothing than upset the balance. It&#8217;s even become a default solution. But in a manufacturing plant, doing nothing can be detrimental to both the equipment and the facility as a whole. Yet in many plants, you can often see the cost of doing nothing many times throughout the day. </p>
<p>For instance, when a manager overlooks that the operator did not clean up the machine well or failed to notice that the mechanic has not repaired the leaking pump, this only increases the cost of doing nothing. Plus, when a manager has a new employee shadow another employee who doesn’t have adequate manufacturing training themselves, this will only lead to more problems. When people are afraid to change their current manufacturing training program then the results will remain the same. </p>
<p>Each time actions are omitted or executed poorly, the cost of doing nothing will increase drastically and your company’s productivity will decrease. When it would only have cost several hundred dollars to repair the machine, it now will cost several thousand dollars instead. </p>
<p>So before deciding to do nothing and just wait and see, you should try calculating the cost of not providing accurate <a href="http://www.itclearning.com/products/cd-rom-courses/troubleshooting-skills.html">manufacturing training</a> to your employees and the cost of leaving small problems to fester. Although this is a common problem at many industrial plants in the U.S., it doesn’t have to be. Manufacturing training is the answer! By utilizing ITC Learning’s manufacturing training curriculum, your employees will be trained to find and fix problems before they escalate into major issues. Remember, the cost of doing nothing can be very expensive. </p>
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		<title>Visual Aids in Training</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/06/03/visual-aids-in-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans are visual creatures. Most people prefer to see a picture than have to read the story, that’s why for years Google and Yahoo! have included images in search results of a search. With that said, you can see why visual aids are an important tool in teaching people in any field, even those in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Humans are visual creatures. Most people prefer to see a picture than have to read the story, that’s why for years Google and Yahoo! have included images in search results of a search. With that said, you can see why visual aids are an important tool in teaching people in any field, even those in manufacturing environments, about a specific topic.</p>
<p>ITC Learning has incorporated this teaching principle into its online, CD-ROM, and DVD/Video industrial training programs.  The interactive courses are divided into segments so that individuals will be able to process the information and not get bored. Employees that use these training programs will see images as well as illustrations of the equipment they’ll be operating. Not only that, but your employees will be able to listen to audio and watch video about a subject. ITC Learning’s visual aids will help to reinforce the information while engaging your employees with the different learning modalities. This is one of the reasons that ITC Learning’s <a href="http://www.itclearning.com/products/cd-rom-courses/industrial-process-control.html">industrial training</a> programs are so effective.  Plus, you can expect to find information created by a variety of expert professionals in the industrial field.</p>
<p>With ITC Learning’s training programs in place, we can maintain your employee’s interest while helping them gain, retain, recognize, recall, and later use the information to which they are exposed.  You can take your industrial training program to the next level with our well-designed training classes. </p>
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		<title>Is Your Maintenance Training Program Working?</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/05/20/is-your-maintenance-training-program-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 19:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons why a maintenance training program is not working as it should. If you currently have a maintenance training program in place, but you’ve found that your employees haven’t learned the skills needed to do their jobs properly, it’s time to re-evaluate your training program. Does your maintenance training program cater to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many reasons why a maintenance training program is not working as it should. If you currently have a maintenance training program in place, but you’ve found that your employees haven’t learned the skills needed to do their jobs properly, it’s time to re-evaluate your training program. Does your maintenance training program cater to the needs of each employee? Is your <a href="http://www.itclearning.com/products/cd-rom-courses/rotating-equipment.html">maintenance training program</a> too lengthy, not giving your employees enough time to process the information? Does it offer quizzes during the program and after the completion of the program to assess your employee’s skills and knowledge? Did it improve the performance of your last group of employees? Then it’s really time for a change. </p>
<p>Don’t continue to put up with low profits along with high overhead operation costs, low quality products, and high employee turnover because of a poor developed training program.  A good manufacturing training program will help you lower operating cost while raising your profits. You simply need to commit to changing your training program and implement it within your manufacturing plant. </p>
<p>With self-paced online training classes in place your employees will be able to improve their skills in no time.  ITC Learning offers web based assessments to test your employee’s current skills to assess what needs to be improved. Your employees are one of your company&#8217;s biggest assists and training them to PROPERLY maintain your equipment when problems small and large occur is important. </p>
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		<title>Maintenance for Air Compressors</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/05/17/maintenance-for-air-compressors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 17:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lung is the original air compressor, and like this essential organ air compressors are vital to the smooth operation of many manufacturing facilities. Since air compressors supply and power a variety of equipment, such as pneumatic tools, they are one of the most important components in a manufacturing plant. Air compressors are used in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The lung is the original air compressor, and like this essential organ air compressors are vital to the smooth operation of many manufacturing facilities. Since <a href="http://www.itclearning.com/products/cd-rom-courses/air-compressor-repair.html">air compressors</a> supply and power a variety of equipment, such as pneumatic tools, they are one of the most important components in a manufacturing plant. Air compressors are used in plants that require air to be decreased in volume or increased in force. Just like in the human body, when the air compressor is broken it will disrupt or halt production. This is why providing effective maintenance training to air compressor personnel is important.  </p>
<p>Having a maintenance employee that knows how to troubleshoot typical compressor problems such as knocking, failure to unload, and excessive discharge temperature is extremely useful. Our maintenance training courses can include, but is not limited to, removing, disassembling, cleaning, repairing, and reassembling discharge valves and suction valves in a compressor as well as how to remove the compressor inspections covers, cylinder heads, pistons, and inspect component parts and reinstall them properly. In addition, our maintenance training courses will teach them to gather necessary information and perform operational checks to determine the cause of common reciprocating air compressor malfunctions. ITC Learning’s maintenance training courses will produce skilled air compressor personnel who understand the value of a properly working air compressor and when to take action. </p>
<p>Air compressors have been around for more than a thousand years and will continue to be important to the smooth operation of process and manufacturing facilities.</p>
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		<title>Safety Training for your Manufacturing Employees</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/05/13/safety-training-for-your-manufacturing-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 19:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first safety class you attended was probably in kindergarten where you learned it’s not safe to talk to strangers, play with fire, and cross the street alone. As we got older, safety classes evolved from what not to do to CPR and first aid classes. So employees have the right to expect their company [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first safety class you attended was probably in kindergarten where you learned it’s not safe to talk to strangers, play with fire, and cross the street alone. As we got older, safety classes evolved from what not to do to <a href="http://www.itclearning.com/products/cd-rom-courses/first-aid.html">CPR and first aid classes</a>. So employees have the right to expect their company to offer manufacturing safety training courses, especially if the organization requires them to use and work around machinery and hazardous materials. You can’t expect your employees to work under hazardous conditions and not know the precautions to take.  </p>
<p>Manufacturing safety training is a necessary and cost-effective path.<br />
1.	It shows employees why they should pay attention in the work place and follow the safety rules.<br />
2.	It helps to prevent interruption and shut down of equipment and the plant.<br />
3.	It can significantly reduce employee turnover and increase productivity.<br />
4.	It enhances the company’s reputation and increases customer confidence in the business. </p>
<p>Whether you operate a chemical manufacturing plant or product manufacturing facility, your employees can utilize our courses. You can choose from among our hazardous waste, environmental awareness, welding and cutting safety, or even the cane safety training course. Without a manufacturing safety training program in place, a small mistake can turn into a significant problem that could have been avoided. ITC Learning’s manufacturing safety training courses will make your facility easier to operate without putting the people, equipment, and even the environment at risk. Don’t make safety a bigger issue than it as to be. </p>
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		<title>What’s your Manufacturing Plants Most Valuable Resource?</title>
		<link>http://www.itclearning.com/news/2010/05/06/what%e2%80%99s-your-manufacturing-plants-most-valuable-resource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 21:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those tests in high school where the answer was either A, B, C, A and B or all of the above? Even though you studied for the test you just couldn’t figure out the right answer because they were all so close.  But when you finally got your test back you were surprised to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember those tests in high school where the answer was either A, B, C, A and B or all of the above? Even though you studied for the test you just couldn’t figure out the right answer because they were all so close.  But when you finally got your test back you were surprised to find out that the answer wasn’t A or B like you thought, but all of the above. So when it comes to your manufacturing plant, what comes first: A the people, B your equipment, or all of the above? Well, in this case the answer is all of the above.  Your employees <em>are</em> your most precious resource because they&#8217;re the ones who keep your manufacturing plant running smoothly. Without them your equipment will go unrepaired and production will come to a standstill. By providing your employees with <a href="http://www.itclearning.com/products/cd-rom-courses/cd-rom-courses.html">plant training</a>, you’re ensuring that they know what to do, and when to do it.</p>
<p>If you selected B, the equipment, as your answer, then you’re leaving your machines in untrained hands. Simply telling your employees to get the job done doesn’t help, if they have little experience or no training. In order for your organization to be competitive, you have to consider and realize that plant training will have to play an important role. It is essential to the continued success of your company.</p>
<p>If and when you decide to purchase new equipment, your employees will not be able to take advantage of all its great features if they have to train themselves. However, if you had a plant training program in place you can expect higher productivity levels and fewer accidents. So if you want to improve the quality, speed, and performance of your equipment you can start by training your employees to operate and maintain them properly. With ITC Learning’s plant training courses, training doesn’t have to be a centralized function that can only be done at a set time with a set group of people. Our plant training courses can be done on-demand to fit your employees’ work schedule.</p>
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