A small business set up last Summer by John Craig, former technical and marketing director at Thermo Electron, to provide machine-specific interactive training software to packaging equipment operators, is expanding its offering.
Last year Craig launched a training software package, On-Demand Training (ODT), in basic “skeleton” form to fill what he believed was an unfulfilled market niche. It includes step-by-step video presentations with voiceover and close-up on screen guidance to help operatives who may either never have received formal machine-specific training, or who cannot spare the time for off-site tuition, get the best out of equipment.
Craig, whose company is called Halo Training, says “phase two” of the package expands the software to “meet the training needs of all levels of operational and maintenance personally within the food, pharmaceutical and beverage sectors, as well as equipment manufacturers and suppliers”. New features include an interactive fault diagnostics chart linked to video and animation, and multilingual voiceover capability.
He says: “ODT uses an exciting combination of needs analysis and multimedia technology to allow production staff to manage their own training schedule.”
Provided on CD or high speed intranet / internet, each ODT solution incorporates “stimulating animation, video and audio material” to help demonstrate plant processes and equipment operating functions and procedures.