Industrial Maintenance Training: An Exclusive First Look
The on-demand webinar "Industrial Maintenance Training: An Exclusive First Look" offers customers a live preview and Q&A session featuring ITI executives Andrew Kauser and Amanda Long, showcasing new scalable training solutions designed to reduce unplanned downtime, enhance team efficiency, and optimize industrial maintenance skills and performance.
On-Demand Webinar
Industrial Maintenance Training: An Exclusive First Look
As a valued customer, we’re excited to invite you to an exclusive sneak peek of our latest innovation in Industrial Maintenance! This live webinar and Q&A will give you a front-row seat to the features and tools we’re bringing to help you reduce downtime, streamline training, and boost team efficiency.
Unlock the skills to reduce unplanned downtime, optimize performance, and maximize ROI with our latest innovation in Industrial Maintenance. Join us for this live webinar and Q&A to see how our scalable training solutions empower your team to maintain peak operational efficiency and reduce costly disruptions.
Why Should You Watch?
- Be the First to See – Get an early look at new capabilities that will streamline and enhance your training.
- Gain Insights – Discover how you can impact your team’s efficiency and skill development.
- Ask Questions – Engage with our experts live to see how our Industrial Maintenance catalog can help fill any training gaps.
Meet the Speakers
Andrew Kauser
COO, ITI an Interplay company
Andrew is the COO of Industrial Training International (ITI) and has over 20 years’ experience in the management and implementation of advanced education programs. With a special interest in industrial skills training, Andrew guided TPC Training Systems to become a market leader. He currently sits on multiple boards and is the past Chair of The International Association for Continuing Education & Training (IACET). Andrew’s history with ITI goes back a number of years, with him officially joining the company full time in 2021.
Amanda Long
Sr. VP – Industrial, ITI an Interplay company
With more than 15 years of industry experience, Amanda has been a crane and rigging instructor, a training-solutions adviser to Fortune 500 companies, and the VP of sales for ITI. At Interplay, Amanda leads the industrial market, focusing on skilled workforce development through instructor-led training, online solutions, and simulation technologies that enhance safety, improve operational efficiency, and deliver measurable ROI for customers across the United States. A leading voice in the industry with deep expertise in industrial regulations and standards, Amanda is committed to Interplay’s mission of creating better careers and better lives.
Tim McDaniel
Industrial Maintenance SME, Interplay Learning
Tim McDaniel is the Solutions Consultant at Interplay Learning, where he draws from his 35-plus years of field and engineering experience to provide consultation on quality engineering solutions, maintenance training and support, and designs for training for the existing and future workforce. Prior to joining Interplay, Tim served as Executive Vice President of TPC iSchematic, where he not only led a team that provided products and services to various industrial and commercial clientele, but also supported online and instructor-led training across various divisions. Over the course of his career, Tim has been responsible for engineering and consulting services, new product development and support, and curriculum development for various companies, including American Trainco, National Technology Transfer, and Industrial Trainers of America.
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