Industry Training Keeps Tracker Marine On Track
By KARA GAE NEAL
Superintendent
SPEEDY LEARNING: Tracker Marine Group, a division of Bass Pro Shops which manufactures the Tahoe and Mako brands of fiberglass boats in Miami, Okla., recently utilized Tech’s industry training to provide Composite Certification Training (CCT) to their production supervisors, team leaders and maintenance technicians.
Courtesy Tulsa Tech
In addition to many exciting high school classes, full-time and part-time adult classes, Tulsa Technology Center offers excellent customized training for business and industry. By providing the resources and training which companies need to compete cost-effectively, Tulsa Tech’s Business and Industry Services have had a significant economic impact and formed lasting relationships with many Tulsa area companies.
Organizations of all sizes have used Tulsa Tech’s Business and Industry Services, including American Airlines, The Bama Companies, Inc., Kimberly-Clark Corp., Ameristar Fence Co., St. Francis Health System and Centrilift/Baker Hughes.
Tracker Marine Group, a division of Bass Pro Shops which manufactures the Tahoe and Mako brands of fiberglass boats in Miami, Okla., recently utilized Tech’s industry training to provide Composite Certification Training () to their production supervisors, team leaders and maintenance technicians.
The term composite construction refers to the principle of using separate materials which are bound together so that they act together and provide a single unit which is stronger than either one of the individual materials. The earliest man-made composite materials were straw and mud combined to form bricks. Modern composites include a wide variety of materials which are combined with many types of polymers and then used to construct products which are both strong and lightweight. Aerospace components, racing car bodies, and boat hulls like the products produced by Tracker Marine are just a few examples of high-performance products that need to be lightweight, yet strong enough to take harsh loading conditions.
According to Ramin Zarrabi, plant manager for the Tracker Marine Group, the training is a nationally recognized curriculum developed by experts in the field which provides a more in-depth knowledge of the principles of composite construction.
“We came across this concept of Composite Certification Training and discovered that Tulsa Tech provided this service,” Zarrabi says. “We felt that partnering with the Tulsa Tech instructor, who had used this established curriculum in the field before, gave us an advantage in providing this training to our staff.”
After meeting with supervisors at the Tracker Marine Group, one of Tulsa Tech’s Business and Industry Services instructors, Terry Sampson, modified the curriculum to meet the company’s needs and provided the instruction on-site at the Tracker Marine production facility.
“There are many advantages to providing on-site training,” Sampson explains. “This type of instruction allowed us to discuss the concepts in the training room and then move directly to the production floor to review these same concepts.”
Tulsa Tech’s Business and Industry Services offers all types of training which can be customized and delivered in many different ways. Employees may attend classes at our Training Center, your company facility, or virtually any location with the use of tools like our Mobile Computer Lab.
If your company’s training needs involve just a few employees, or a few thousand employees, we invite you to visit Tulsa Tech to discover what our award-winning Business and Industry Services can offer. For more information, call 918-828-5200 or visit www.tulsatech.edu.
Updated 11-16-2010
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