subject: Industrial Process Training [print this page] It is vital for industrial process workers to be properly trained in their various tasks, since unsafe procedures can have far-reaching implications both for the environment and for personnel. Such operators must undertake complex cognitive tasks and so competency training must be given to ensure a satisfactory outcome.
Training providers themselves must be highly trained to be able to pass on the necessary skills and assess the level of qualification and competency of the trainees. Such manufacturing training is enhanced by the use of software that simulates and demonstrates various manufacturing processes and what happens when faults occur.
Originally industrial processes have been and many still are - analogue based, but new processes more recently installed are all digitally based and can be accessed quickly and efficiently through a laptop or other digital media. This allows operators to train under conditions that simulate the real thing except that if these trainees make a mistake there are no consequences, either for them or for the plant they are training with or for the environment as there would otherwise have been. Such accurate simulation models greatly improve operator training.
Where once such training may have taken months or even years, and proven costly especially when mistakes were made nowadays training can go ahead at a much faster pace. Traditionally industrial process training had to be limited to the available trainers; now more trainees can undertake such training because the trainers can spread their expertise due to such digital training models.
Over the last few decades such technological advances in both process monitoring, control and industrial automation have made significant improvement in the productivity of all industries globally. Furthermore as the older industrial processes need to be replaced, digital processes will gradually replace them, further enhancing speed, safety, efficiency and training in the industrial world.
