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Employee Training in Manufacturing

Employee training is an important process manufacturers need to keep in mind to benefit both themselves and their employees. Tuning your employees’ skills while also helping them to feel wanted and appreciated at your company are both results of employee training. People want to feel that they are growing in their position and having an employee training program can aid in this feeling for employees. Along with this, new employees can get the proper introduction into the company and have a clear idea of what is expected from them.

Job instruction training (JI) is a lean principle born out of the need for training and upskilling new industry workers, including women, during the Second World War. This framework was adopted by many firms to meet the demands of both United States citizens and the US Military.

The job instruction method is still used today to bring workers up to speed in a new position or to train on a new skill. This framework will help you and your team develop a system and procedure for on-the-job training. While the purpose of this training is mainly for frontline workers, the same ideas transpire to any position in the company.

In a recent chat for USA Manufacturing Hour on Twitter, host Chase Bodor from Plastic Plus Technologies in California led a discussion about this very topic.