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PRESS RELEASE - March 2010

Assessment: A Valuable Training Tool

MPACT Maintenance & Reliability Solutions: (Greensboro, NC)
We provide high quality assessment, education and training in industrial and facility maintenance that increases employee knowledge, performance and productivity.

Employee assessments:
In order to properly evaluate the skill/knowledge levels of your maintenance staff, we recommend utilizing specific, industry-developed tests to determine the levels of each individual. This enables us to recommend the proper courses to close the “skill gaps” and establish a baseline for all current and future maintenance employees. These assessments provide actionable feedback designed to ensure that “you know what they know”, and can assist in matching their expertise to their jobs.

Assessment areas:
We have over 100 online assessments that cover the core and specific competencies relating to the vast array of plant maintenance functions.

Core competencies:

• Fundamentals
• Electrical systems
• Mechanical systems

Specific competencies include a range of assessments within these categories:

• Electronics
• Mechanical maintenance applications
• Air conditioning & refrigeration
• Process control instrumentation, PLC’s, and microprocessors
• Hoists & rigging
• Machine shop practices and machine tools
• Maintenance management

…and many others.

We can also custom design assessments from a “pool” of over 5000 questions designed to meet your specific needs and job descriptions. Assessments generally run $300 per student.

The assessment process:
Assessment - We provide you with an extensive listing of the 100+ standard assessments for your internal review. You then select the assessments (by subject/topic) that best fit with your specific maintenance needs. You then have the option to review with us each individual question within the selected assessments to determine what questions do or do not apply to your specific plant environment and your maintenance staff’s responsibilities (may vary by job title within the maintenance department).

Once this is completed and the final assessments are approved, they are available online (password protected) for your staff to take as their schedules allow.

Evaluation/reporting- We provide periodic reports on each individual’s progress, and when all assessments are completed, provide a final report that includes the scores and the recommended courses for each individual. We provide an evaluation of each individual, plus an overall evaluation for the department that shows how each individual scored against the department average, and where they placed (below average, average, above average, top percentile, etc.).

We then work with management to schedule the recommended classes to close the “skill gaps”.

Department assessment:
We also have the ability to assess the entire maintenance department/process, and make recommendations to ensure that they provide a more efficient support function for the plant operations.

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