Our friend and colleague Kathy Lee at AIT shared an article recently posted on her company intranet. AIT implemented Training Within Industry (TWI) in 2009 to help improve technical training and employee relations. The goal wasn’t to save money but to improve how employees are trained. One year later, though, AIT has realized a [...]
One of our newly minted Certified Trainers raised the issue of how to provide notes for a number trainers instructing on a number of the same JIBs provided to them. Pat answers by focusing on the issue of the number of JIBs developed before the training occurred. He suggests a more developmental approach. Please comment if you have some good [...]
Major shipyards from coast to coast are rediscovering the power of Training Within Industry Job Instruction (TWI JI) training. We say rediscovering because one of the major deployments of TWI JI during WWII was in shipbuilding. Walter Dietz in his history of TWI, Learn by Doing: The Story of Training Within Industry (1970) recounted the [...]
Many thanks to Terry Cox (Dakota MEP) and Al Engstrom, Plant Manager at Giant Snacks for this impact statement. It shows how powerful JI can be in a relatively small business and how easy it is to measure its impact. COMPANY PROFILE: Giant Snacks, LLC, a family-owned business located in Wahpeton, N.D., got its start back in [...]
If you missed the February 25th, webinar on the critical role of TWI Champions on the successful implementation of a TWI program, here is a summary of the key points. Sam Wagner and I had fun bringing it to everyone. If you want t a copy of the slides send me an email. THE CRITICAL ROLE [...]
We recently had folks from Virginia visit us in beautiful upstate New York. They were from a company in the early phases of TWI JI/JR deployment and wanted to benchmark with three exemplary Central New York companies. The companies we visited were a plastics injection and blow molding operation, a monofilament plant and a precision gear maker. All are very different from each other and different [...]
