NIMS, LIFT, Ivy Tech Launch Teacher Training Program for Industrial Maintenance
In addition, a partnership with Amatrol will provide multimedia and e-learning resources to the effort to educate new industrial technology maintenance technicians.
The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT) and Ivy Tech Community College have launched a new program to train community and technical college instructors as well as industry trainers in industrial technology maintenance (ITM). The program is part of an effort to help augment the industrial technology maintenance workforce, which has grown in demand by 118 percent from 2011 to 2015 in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, according to NIMS.
The program is expected to bring additional training and credentials in industrial technology maintenance to market across states along the Midwest auto corridor as well as nationally. The components of the partnership include: rolling out the first-ever industry standards for educating and training the industrial technology maintenance workforce; developing nationally-portable, industry-recognized skills credentials based on these standards; training instructors from community colleges across the entire region; and equipping a competent workforce with the knowledge, skills and credentials they need to enter and advance in the field.
“In 2015, there were over 53,000 industrial technology maintenance jobs posted in the region,” says Larry Brown, executive director of LIFT, citing the need for more credentialed workers.
Ivy Tech and NIMS have collaborated to launch the ITM workshop series to train instructors to implement the industrial technology maintenance industry standards into curriculum and deliver the related NIMS credentials to their students. Workshops are scheduled for March 21-23, 2016, and April 18-20, 2016.
Interested instructors can sign up for the workshops at nimsready.org/workshops/itm.
As part of the overall program effort, NIMS has also partnered with Amatrol (Jeffersonville, Indiana), an e-learning firm, to develop multimedia training materials to support the NIMS ITM certifications.
“NIMS has taken a major step forward to help industry address the critical shortage of skilled technicians,” says Amatrol President Paul Perkins. “Their approach of creating a multiple-credential, industrial maintenance certification will more quickly qualify people for well-paying jobs.”
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