Industrial Safety Articles
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Industrial maintenance, engineering, and safety professionals will find these articles to be unique in several ways. You will discover practical, real-world information that is not available elsewhere online. Many of the articles also include videos, and some feature built-in simulators, allowing you to not only read the content but also experience it interactively.
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Safety Articles:
How to unblock downloads on Windows 10 & 11 - program install
Simple instructions on how to unblock downloads on Windows 10 & 11. More importantly, learn how to stop Windows Internet Explorer from blocking it in the first place.
Computer Literacy Skills Required in Industrial Computing
Computer literacy skill advice for those working in manufacturing and in industrial computing. It also explores the pros and cons of PC vs. Mac in the business, industrial, and manufacturing industries. The article discusses the difference between apps and computer software regarding OS and literacy.
How to create employee training videos
How to create a training video that works and is boring-free? This article provides a list of steps on how to make corporate and employee training videos and video examples of each attribute.
Maintenance safety training programs, Cal-OSHA
This maintenance safety training program (Cal OSHA) article provides a safety maintenance checklist based on California OSHA standards. The standards can be applied anywhere, regardless of location. Included is the maintenance safety program PDF so that you can share it at your safety meeting.
PLC safety and reliability
PLC reliability and PLC safety in Programmable Logic Controller training are often lacking. PLCs and PACs should be part of your safety and reliability engineering efforts.
Asbestos fibers in manufacturing plants
Asbestos use inside manufacturing plants was common practice in the United States throughout most of the 20th century. This article helps you identify those risks and protect worker exposure to asbestos.
Slip and fall safety around the chip machines
Advice from Chip Systems International: Slip and fall advice by Chip Systems International for safety floor management around chip machines, briquetting equipment, mist collectors, and other heavy machines.
Halloween safety tips for adults
Renowned author Randy DeVaul gives Halloween safety tips for adults and children. Randy also offers tips for Halloween pet safety. Updated October 2024.
Opinion Articles:
Disadvantages of Online Classes
There are advantages and disadvantages of online learning. This article and infographic focus on the 2024 Top 5 Disadvantages of Online Classes for Employees by comparing them to the much more cost-effective alternative: software-based courseware.
A Guide to Distance Learning Centers (USA)
Numerous distance learning centers in the USA cater to the diverse needs of students from around the world. If you would like to take courses in a USA distance learning center, this guide has everything you need to know.
Technical, vocational education vs. vocational training
Although some providers blur the meaning by primarily using the word "training", when really all they are providing is "education". (It's a sales thing.) "Training" is and should be perceived as more/better than just "education". Although both are necessary, see the definitions, metrics, and examples in this article.
What's an industrial maintenance technician?
How do you become one? Should you? Where on the promotion/career tree is an "industrial maintenance technician" job? This article attempts to answer these questions, but it is not easy, given the muddied waters.
Opinion: Mechatronics engineer and technician
Mechatronics engineer, mechatronics technician, and mechatronics education in a commentary about the USA's diluted educational and employment in manufacturing. One of two articles, written to spark controversy and conversation.
Opinion: Manufacturing career path
The manufacturing career path suffers from the education skills gap. Here is a commentary on how and why the USA no longer has a viable manufacturing career path for its young people—the second of two articles written to spark controversy and conversation.
Archived Articles:
Using the best online resources to find a job
Best us government online resources reviewed. While the article focuses on specific tools to contact employing companies, the premise of the two US government sites discussed is to provide tools that broaden the job seeker's employment choices.
Lean maintenance using Six Sigma DMAIC
You can not have truly lean manufacturing without also having lean maintenance. This article provides a detailed overview of how to implement lean maintenance successfully, from identifying barriers and defining the problem to arriving at a solution. This article is an excellent starting point for controlling the project.
The knowledge network
Networking people and information together. The most potent aspect of the knowledge network is often the most overlooked advantage. That advantage is a solution that results when two or more individuals communicate back and forth with a common goal.
Dry ice blasting
Dry ice blasting for electric motor repair. A case study for using dry ice blasting (CO2) for an electric motor rebuilder, compared to conventional methods such as sandblasting. Also covered is how it eliminates hazardous waste disposal costs.
Automated packaging
Increasing efficiency and reducing costs with packaging automation Automation is certainly the watchword as today's manufacturers face razor-thin profit margins, just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing, and ISO-9002/QS-1000 quality standards.
The funny story about the maintenance job
A humorous look at the old maintenance mentality. With the advent of technological advances and the movement from reactive maintenance to proactive maintenance, Bubba & Skeeter are officially deceased.
Connecting all the PLCs of different vendors in your facility
Some basic advice to help you with your research. There is more than one way to skin a cat. From PLC vendor-proprietary networks to OPC server, and even to a phone if you would like!
A spot vs. Group re-lamping:
Do you feel like you're constantly changing bulbs in your facility? Then you probably are. View some of the highlights of Sylvania's presentation online, and download the full 28 slides. You can use this to educate your management on the cost savings of group re-lamping.
A 5-cent shorted fuse can really cost you:
If you don't stock a particular fuse, documented cases show a cost of $27,000. This article will help when you don't have an exact fuse match in stock.
Lubrication's dirty secrets:
Did you know that compressor oil costs from $900.00 to $2000.00 per drum? Auto-RX lets you in on the secrets to extend your compressor life.
Corrugator warp:
Get the warp out of your paper drive. A time when a warp drive is not so cool; that's when the warp drives your scrap rate up and reduces production.
Customer complaints: prevent or perish.
Those who embrace and actively lead their organizations within a prevention strategy will lead the exceptional companies of the 21st century. Those who don't will perish. Which will you choose?
The 2nd yield:
Your current product line is the first yield. Through management of science and maintenance, you can obtain a second yield of services. This article is actually a compilation of excerpts and exhibits from the book.
A peek at PLCs
There might be more out there who could benefit from the answers to these PLC questions.
The millennium maintenance man - aka OEM eliminator
Entering the millennium, we will see manufacturing plants becoming more and more automated. The new automation will have maintenance supervisors looking for a different type of maintenance man.
Why should I upgrade to a Program Logic Controller (PLC)?
That was the question posed to us by one of our readers, so we hope this helps.
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