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Industrial Troubleshooting 101

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Knowing how to devise a solution to a problem and implement it is a skill that is much valued, especially by industrial organizations. Because equipment malfunctions for a variety of reasons skilled mechanics and maintenance personnel who know how to troubleshoot problems will always be in high demand.

When mechanical seals and other parts wear out, wires overheat, and centrifugal pumps start to operate erratically, a mechanic will be needed to repair the equipment as quickly as possible to contain further damage. If this defective equipment is a part of the assembly line, then it can lead to significant down time and loss of revenue. It’s times like this when a manager will appreciate the investment in a comprehensive industrial training program. This is why ITC Learning offers industrial training troubleshooting courses to companies who want their employees to learn effective troubleshooting strategies. The best thing about our courses is that the strategies taught can be applied to the analysis of problems in any type of industrial system.

In addition, our industrial training courses will teach your employees to develop logical thinking skills and create a personal troubleshooting outlook that will prove valuable under any troubleshooting situation. By taking our troubleshooting courses your employees will learn:
• How to obtain information about a malfunctioning system
• Develop a trouble-shooting plan and take the necessary steps to repair the problem
• Describe measures that can be taken to prevent future problems
• Learn how to troubleshoot under pressure

You might think that the machine operator will have a good understanding of how to repair the equipment because they use it every day, but often times this is not the case. Being good at troubleshooting requires more than this. If you want them to be able to troubleshoot like an expert, they’ll need to complete an industrial training troubleshooting course.

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Training For Excellence

Monday, April 12th, 2010

There are so many parallels to achieving excellence in sports and in an organization’s engineering and maintenance efforts; however, at their core, all successful organizations have at their foundation a strong emphasis on a continuing training program.  When we are watching a sporting event, and we are mesmerized by a phenomenal act by an athlete, it is so easy not to realize that what we witnessed, was only possible through the hard work and consistent practice put in by that athlete, not just leading up to the game, but all the time.  The same is true with the performance of a sound engineering program.  In order for equipment within a facility, be it as complex as nuclear power plant or within a warehousing operation, the proper functionality of the operating equipment is firmly dependent upon a solid continuous training program within their engineering and maintenance department.

With today’s economic backdrop, we all are doing what we can to minimize costs and to be as efficient as possible.  With the incorporation of ITC’s education and training platforms, into your training program, or by basing a new program on ITC’s training curriculum’s, you can  easily, affordably, and effectively put a sound and sustainable continuous training program in place.  ITC provides flexible, on demand training for individuals or teams.  All training modules inherently are designed to reinforce the fundamentals needed to be exercised in the field, and have knowledge assessment capabilities built in. ITC has various e-learning modules, that are performance based, and utilize interactive knowledge assessments to reinforce what knowlwdge your personnel need to take with them when they are on the job.  With the incorporation of an ITC based training program, your organization can be better prepared and poised to mesmerize your clients with your day to day operations.

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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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