NEWS ENGINEERING & EQUIPMENT
subject from beginning to end with text information, topical webinars, videos and related articles. “Our goal is comprehension and retention,” Heitzler pointed out. “Visitors might be pressed for time or may become distracted. While an experienced live instructor can see that and overcome it in a face-to-face training session, online learning is a different animal. So by providing visitors with options for learning and ways to break up the information rather than hours of reading or long videos, we’re able to better engage them, improving their experience and their learning.” Once the Learning Center has been fully explored, users should have the foundation needed to operate belt conveyors safely and effectively. If managers choose, they can refer their employees to the Learning Center to Topic categories are easy to find and understand, and lead to an entire collection of learning resources. gain professional development credits toward their certification to become qualified as maintenance technicians, The feedback from people who have use, engaging, and an overall enjoyable operators, foremen, millwrights/fitters and already used the Learning Center has been experience. Managers and supervisors say so on. excellent. Users find it informative, easy to they like having a trustworthy and costeffective source for quick, unbiased information. Resource volumes are “Of course, nothing replaces hands-on available as free downloads to training and on-the-job experience, so provide in-depth information that’s why the training system is called (all photos: © Foundations,” Heitzler said. “We provide 2022 Martin the basic knowledge needed to work safely Engineering). and efficiently in a platform that they can easily access when they need it.”
ABOUT MARTIN ENGINEERING
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Martin Engineering has been a global innovator in the bulk material handling industry for more than 75 years, developing new solutions to common problems and participating in industry organizations to improve safety and productivity. The company’s series of Foundations books is an internationally-recognized resource for safety, maintenance and operations training — with more than 22,000 print copies in circulation around the world. The 500+ page reference books are available in several languages and have been downloaded thousands of times as free PDFs from the Martin website. Martin Engineering products, sales, service and training are available from 17 factoryowned facilities worldwide, with wholly owned business units in Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, the USA and UK. The firm employs more than 1,000 people, approximately 400 of whom hold advanced degrees.
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