If you look closely, you can find a pattern in anything. There’s a pattern in the fabrics of our life to how we dress and the behavior of our dogs. In vibration analysis, understanding and interpreting the patterns is essential to determining its mechanical condition. A single reading can provide all the useful information you need to understand the machine. Employees that know how to use vibration analysis to find problems are one of the backbones of process and manufacturing facilities. This skill is essential for your maintenance professionals to have. Without it you can expect machine failure resulting in a high replacement cost.

ITC Learning’s vibration analysis maintenance training courses are designed to provide employees with the ability to determine the velocity and displacement, to use a vibration analyzer, and interpret various vibration patterns. By providing your employees with the maintenance training they need to become better vibration analyzers, you won’t have to replace your machines as often and you’ll save money. By doing this you’ll be able to prolong the life of your rotating equipment.

A few of the benefits of ITC Learning’s vibration analysis maintenance training courses include:
• The ability to detect lubrication and bearing problems early
• Identify misalignment problems before damages occur
• Improve equipment productivity
• The potential to save thousands of dollars through efficient and non-disruptive production

By knowing the state of your equipment your employees will be able to detect common problems such as misalignment, bearing wear, resonances, and broken or loose parts which can be key indicators of the state of a particular machine. This versatile technology is a cost-effective way to maintain your industrial equipment and increasing the efficiency of your employees. Proper maintenance training is always a benefit to your employees as well as your company.

Centrifugal pumps are used to transport a wide variety of materials including water, oil, bleach, acid, and more. When a pump grinds to a halt because of a blockage or other problem, this can disrupt the entire system. Centrifugal pumps not only fail when they get older, but also after years of service. They need to be maintained regularly in order to reduce erosion, corrosion, overheating due to low flow, leakage, and surge. Regardless of whether your manufacturing plants use inexpensive pumps that require low maintenance or more expensive pumps, mechanical training is a necessary part of keeping your plant running smoothly.

ITC Learning’s mechanical training courses offer your employees the ability to improve their knowledge about the normal operating conditions of the pumps, how to clean and troubleshoot excessive temperature and more. Our mechanical training programs will also teach your employees effective troubleshooting skills to give them the ability to observe changes in performance over time, and in the event of a failure, the capacity to thoroughly investigate the cause of the failure and take measures to prevent the problem from re-occurring. Although poor operation and poor maintenance practices are the two main causes of centrifugal pump problems, this can be reduced with training. Upon the successful completion of our mechanical training programs, your employees will be able to reduce the number of centrifugal pump problems and their frequency.

When you think of manufacturing jobs, you don’t necessarily think you need any type of training. But a wide variety of manufacturing jobs actually require special skills and knowledge. Without proper training, your employees will not be able to perform the jobs properly or safely. Regardless of where your company is located, our manufacturing courses can be done right on your premise. This is because ITC Learning offers a variety of manufacturing courses which are available online, on CD-ROM or DVD/Video. The courses you decide to offer to your employees will, of course, depend on the type of products your manufacturing plant produces.

Here are some of the manufacturing training courses that are available:
• Electronic Maintenance
• Fundamentals of Industrial Measurement
• Industrial Process Control
• Instrumentation and Control Safety
• Interpreting Process Control Diagrams
• Pneumatic Maintenance

ITC Learning can help you match your training classes to your employees job descriptions as well as provide a web based assessment to evaluate the areas that they need to improve. Or you can have an online manufacturing class created for your staff. This will ensure that your employees get exactly the right training. Regardless of whether you decide to utilize our courses or have one tailored to suit your needs, we can help. By offering manufacturing training classes to your employees, you are creating valuable employees who will have the experience and training to move up within your company while keeping them loyal to you.

30 Years of Training

ITC Learning, Inc. has been fulfilling their mission to connect people to knowledge for over 30 years. ITC Learning is the leading provider of industrial skills training to over 6,000 global organizations (and over 1,000,000 users) for the process and manufacturing industry. Throughout its 30+ year history, ITC Learning’s training products have been developed and selected with the industrial plant worker and environment in mind. All of the courses have undergone SME review for content accuracy and have been designed instructionally to meet the needs of the industrial adult learner. Learners will find ITC Learning’s courses to be instructionally sound, engaging, easy to use and most important – relevant to their jobs.

We also provide a Free Trial of our iKnow Products

ITC Learning offers more than 300 individual iKNOW courses for E-Learning and these iKNOW libraries continue to grow.

Our library also includes CD ROM and DVD courses Products

ITC Learning’s on-line industrial training courseware can be delivered in a variety of ways to meet the needs of the plant or corporate facility. We work with each client to set up training via a customer Learning Portal hosted by ITC Learning. To learn more on the CD ROM courses click on Industrial Technical Skills Training or Personal Computer Skills Training. For more information on our library of DVD courses click on DVD Video Courses.

We also provide Custom Development

In addition to our generic courseware, ITC Learning has created custom projects in multimedia and print-based formats as well as training analysis.

- ITC Adam

As a graduate from an expensive private university, debt from student loans will play a significant role in my life for years to come. I want to eventually get a master’s degree to get ahead in the job market, but I worry about taking on more loans and facing more debt. After reading an article entitled “Online College is the Future of Education,” I now realize that online learning is a convenient and affordable solution. I can work at a full-time job while taking courses online to earn my masters degree. I never really considered an online education as a viable option, but after reading this article and learning about its advantages, its become a much more feasible and exciting possibility.

–ITC Erin

I read an interesting article in the Washington Post recently about an experiment in single-sex eduction that’s happening in Maryland. Four schools are setting up small online courses for girls only, following recent trends to explore the value (or lack thereof) in gender-limited classrooms.

There are going to be lots of different opinions about experiments like this – some people will love the idea, others will say that it’s discriminatory, and still others will just wind up scratching their heads. But there’s one thing that everyone can agree on: it really does show just how accepted online learning has become by mainstream educators. According to the article, the number of K-12 students who took online classes increased by nearly 50% since the 2005-06 school year. Whether or not the experiment proves that girls will benefit from a specially tailored curriculum, there is no controversey over the fact that online education is a valid and innovative learning tool.
–ITC Erin

Young people can no longer accuse adults of not being savvy with the Internet. According to elearners.com, online learning is rapidly becoming a popular method used by adults to receive a secondary education. As far back as 2000, 39% of the total number of students participating in online education programs was above the age of 25, so just imagine how many more are learning online today. In our current economy, online learning is making it easier for employed adults to continue working full-time jobs while enhancing their skill set to become more competent and dynamic.

For those who may be worried that the quality of the education is sacrificed for convenience, think again. According to a 2006 report from the Sloane Consortium, Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 62% of academic leaders polled rated the learning results from an online education as equal or superior to those from face-to-face learning environments.

With this evidence at your disposal, not only do you now know of an ideal way to improve your career, but you’re also armed with some substantial statistics to use against the next young person who questions your computer literacy.

- ITC Erin