By Jim Fitch
Machinery Lubrication Magazine
We’ve addressed the virtues of training numerous times on the pages of Machinery Lubrication and other Noria publications. Still today, we encounter a national workforce in the lubrication field that seems largely oblivious to many of the fundamental concepts that embody excellence in the profession.
We are not sure if it is due to them not knowing what they don’t know, or not caring about what they don’t know. To become aware of what you don’t know requires becoming aware of your incompetencies and leaving the comfort of ignorance.
This editorial column seeks to define a minimum threshold of knowledge and awareness to qualify a person to work in the field rather than addressing the broader topics of educating a lubrication workforce.