E-learning and training courses

The basic problem with managing commercial heat treatment shops  is the lack of time for anything. This is usually a very narrow group of employees, who usually have to ensure non-stop operation, 7 days a week and 24 hours a day. However, the ever-increasing requirements for training individual professions according to ISO 9001, CQI-9 or Nadcap mean that the mobility of employees is significantly reduced so that they can spend a few days outside the company every year on training of various types. At the same time, it is not just professional training in heat treatment, it is the whole complex of training employees for work safety, fire protection, or special skills, which leads to the fact that this training system is for small, commercial heat treatment shops with 20 to 50 people almost unattainable. However, every auditor from the automotive or aerospace industry requires these periodic trainings as a condition for approving the competence of individual processes. Another reason is the problem of employee rotation, because there is nothing permanent in our field either, the old ones are leaving, new ones are coming.

That’s why I come up with this idea and this website. I would like to offer a basic form of training on heat treatment and related topics for commercial and in-house heat treatment shops. However, these trainings may just as well serve heat treatment buyers or steel buyers for molds and tools, designers or technologists who are initially responsible for the result of their efforts to achieve quality or tool life. So far in my head about 50 courses on various topics and covering the whole range of the problem of heat treatment facilities. I’m working hard on them, but there are still many left to complete to provide a comprehensive set of training for hardeners.

But what I have completed is a set of trainings on the topic of Nadca 207. The courses are divided into chapters INTRODUCTION TO NADCA 207, MATERIAL AND ITS EVALUATION, HEAT TREATMENT, ADDITIVE TECHNOLOGY IN NADCA MODE and COMPLAINTS AND LIABILITY FOR DEFECTS with a summary of the legal status of heat treatment  In total, it is more than 3 hours of training dealing mainly with the issue of die casting molds, but the information is easily interpretable and transferable for forging tools or molds for plastics. Each course includes a test and a certificate in paper or electronic form, confirming its completion, along with the test results. It will therefore also be a good document for the HR department, recording the level of education and employee participation in individual activities.

I hope and firmly believe that these courses will benefit everyone who works or would like to work in the Nadca 207 mode, but they can also be instructive for anyone who is interested in what “best praxis” is.

Jirka Stanislav