Short reads on workforce development, industrial automation, and the operational side of running a training program well. Written by the people who deliver it.
A walk through the gap between PLC certificates and competent automation engineers, and how we restructured our flagship program after watching too many graduates struggle on real plant work.
Read the article →A short piece on a long-running debate in PLC instruction, and why we changed our mind two years in.
Promoting your best technician into a supervisor role is the single most common workforce mistake we see. Here's the fix.
Three months on Tanzanian and Kenyan sites changed how we think about post-training follow-up. A short field report.
Twelve weeks, two cohorts, one custom curriculum. The numbers and the things they don't capture.
The transition matters for the people teaching it. A practical view from inside the certification process.
Why crisis comms programs need to land before they're needed — and how to design tabletops people actually take seriously.
Six weeks of Forex foundations for fifteen analysts, and the operational changes that followed in the trading room.
What treatment-plant operators across South Africa say their gap is — and what we built in response.
Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Unitronics, GE Fanuc — what we recommend, and why "it depends" actually is the answer.