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Is Your Maintenance Training Program Working?

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

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 maintenance training program 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.

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.

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’s biggest assists and training them to PROPERLY maintain your equipment when problems small and large occur is important.

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Maintenance for Air Compressors

Monday, May 17th, 2010

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 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.

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.

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.

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Safety Training for your Manufacturing Employees

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

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 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.

Manufacturing safety training is a necessary and cost-effective path.
1. It shows employees why they should pay attention in the work place and follow the safety rules.
2. It helps to prevent interruption and shut down of equipment and the plant.
3. It can significantly reduce employee turnover and increase productivity.
4. It enhances the company’s reputation and increases customer confidence in the business.

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.

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What’s your excuse for not having an Industrial Training Program?

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Most people know what’s good for them. We know it’s better to slow down at the yellow light than to speed right through. We know it’s better to pay attention to the road than to text or talk on the phone while driving. Yet we still multitask while operating a vehicle going 45 miles per hour or more although we know it’s not safe. We like to think we know what’s best good for us, but often times we don’t. So instead of making an excuse about why your company doesn’t need an industrial training program, you should consider the benefits.

Here are the two most common excuses for not having an industrial training program:

1. No time to develop and manage the program. You might believe you don’t have the time and energy to devote to an industrial training program, but ITC Learning offers a wide variety of training courses that once they’ve been started practically run themselves. If you choose ITC Learning’s products for your training needs, you don’t have to worry about writing and devising the different courses. Our industrial training courses have already been created and you simply need to let us know what type of training classes you need, and when you need it.

2. The belief that training will increase expenses. In fact, training is the best way to increase productivity and reduce accidents. Plus, by outsourcing your industrial training needs, you’re reducing the cost of sending your employees to classes off-site. With an in-house training program you can train more people, more often. Plus, having an industrial training program in place makes a lot of sense when you hire a lot of people in a short period of time. When companies fail to provide adequate training and education, the results can be disastrous for the equipment, employee morale, and the company.

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Manufacturing Training for Infrequent Tasks

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Every once in a while, we are challenged to do something different or great. But because everyone deals with challenges differently, some people embrace them and others run away. Today, manufacturing organizations face many challenges including having to effectively train their employees to perform complex tasks.

If an equipment operator is asked to perform a task he has never done before, he might break a critical tool which will cause the project to take longer to be completed. Even if you provide the operator with instructions and schematics, they may be unclear and he’ll probably take just as long to complete the project. When problems occur in projects like this, substantial re-work can increase the cost and put your plant behind schedule. Yet, these two examples are common problems faced by manufacturing companies everywhere.

If an organization wants to effectively train their employees to perform complex and infrequent tasks, then they need to provide them with proper manufacturing training to maintain those skills as well as accurate materials for them to reference. At ITC Learning, we offer a comprehensive curriculum of manufacturing training courses as well as reference material for your employees to utilize whenever they need to perform those kinds of tasks. By doing this, manufacturing companies should be able to increase productivity as well as reduce equipment downtime and cost. Without an effective manufacturing training curriculum with quality reference materials, these types of issues can continue to plague and challenge companies everywhere.

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Always Learning

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

The other day at Starbucks, I overheard a man ranting to his friend about having to attend a training class at his new company. He didn’t understand why this was being required of him since he has over six years experience in the field. As I waited in line for my coffee, his friend reminded him that he shouldn’t be so sure that he already knows everything and he could actually learn something new. This conversation reminded me that regardless of the industry providing training to experienced employees is still important. It can help them to learn about the people, their work responsibilities and familiarizes them with how things are done at the company.

Although not all positions in an organization require a fresher course. Some positions, especially certain jobs in a manufacturing industry, demand experienced hires to learn how that company operates and their work practices. Many newly hired manufacturing employees will prefer to start right away because they feel their experience and knowledge are sufficient to do the job. But every company as its own set of standard practices that determines how employee should do their job.

Not adopting to a company’s style of work can lead to conflicts and lack of motivation causing the employee’s performance to suffer. It’s always good to have a manufacturing training program in place that orientates the new employees with the work practices, the equipment and the operation procedures. Despite having the required experience, training employees for their new position will help them to perform better in their new role.

ITC Learning offers flexible manufacturing training classes that can be done via web, DVD/Video or CD-ROM. In addition, we can custom design a class to fit the company’s training needs. With training classes in place, your company can continue to increase efficiency, reduce employee turnover and encourage employees to utilize their advance technical knowledge to increase productivity.

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Maintenance Management Training

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Management support is an important aspect of maintenance management. Without it your organization will not function properly. Well-trained maintenance managers and supervisors are needed to staff, schedule, supervise and manage a large industrial company so that it operates at its maximum efficiency. The training will not only teach managers and supervisors to manage your operations but also about the principles of preventive and predictive maintenance because they should understand the responsibilities of the other employees.

ITC Learning’s Maintenance Management training program will help your employees become better managers. Your maintenance managers are responsible for all aspects of planned work. With this much responsibility, they’re quite an important part of an organization, especially when utilized properly. This is why ITC Learning provides maintenance management training classes to companies who want to increase employee productivity.

ITC Learning will train your maintenance managers to effectively and safely perform their jobs and schedule the work. One of the most important parts of their jobs is maintenance safety and understanding the safety requirements. Plus, our predicative maintenance lesson will help your managers to schedule and plan for equipment maintenance.

Planners should be trained to perform their function correctly and efficiently while maintaining a safe working environment for the trades. The amount of resource hours that will be saved by implementing a planned work environment will more than pay for the costs. Add the increased reliability of your operating equipment and the numbers become even more impressive.

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Updating your Manufacturing Training Program

Friday, February 12th, 2010

The fundamentals of manufacturing rarely change, however, the equipment and software used does. Keeping up with the latest news and development in the manufacturing industry is important. But, you should know the right updates to apply to your manufacturing training program or work with an experienced organization that does. By updating your training program with the latest information and procedures, you will ensure that your employees are skilled at using the appropriate equipment and software.

At ITC Learning, we believe that revisions to training tools should happen on a regular basis, whether annually or biannually, to keep your employees up-to-date with all the latest procedures. Some employees are afraid of change, but ITC Learning’s manufacturing program will make your updated training program a seamless experience for your staff. We will update your training program with little to no disruption to the productivity of your company. We have self-paced online manufacturing classes that allow your employees to become familiar with the updated techniques and procedures.

You’ll know that your training program needs to be updated when:

Your company is using antiquated equipment that has decreased/slowed down productivity
Your company is the only one not using the new and proven techniques, procedures and software
You are 10 years behind technology advances
You are no longer competitive with other manufacturing plants

If you have realized that two of the factors mentioned above are true, your company needs an updated training program. ITC Learning can work with you to review your training program to help you see what needs to be added and removed from your current program. With an updated training program in place you can regain that competitive edge. In addition, it can make a huge difference in productivity and profits.

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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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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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