Getting insider info on how manufacturing employees are trained?

[policebaton]

I need to gain some insight as to how employees are trained on the manufacturing floor.
Basic things like how is a normal manufacturing engineer/plant worker trained on assembling equipment, how much that training costs, and any pitfalls they have with it.

Any ideas? There isn't much information besides some general safety videos on factories on Youtube, which is helpful but still doesn't give much insight.

Should I just reach out to a bunch of engineers and see if anybody bites? Try to visit some factories?

I work in this industry, and could likely visit some manufacturing floors. Just hoping to gain some other insight beyond this and if nobody wants me to visit the factory.

 

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[Stargazer]

A lot will be on the job training so not an easy question to answer.

If a new piece of kit has been bought then the manufacturer of that kit would do an initial training course.

Depending on what that kit is - ie complexity, it could be that everyone who eventually uses the kit has to be certified.

I am relating Telecoms here but pretty sure it would be the same.

BAE Sytems will spend £millions a year on training their manufacturing staff where as the small boiler manufacturer down the road from me will not.

So did you have something more specific in mind or what type of training?

Dan

 

[mccallrt]

I need to gain some insight as to how employees are trained on the manufacturing floor.
Basic things like how is a normal manufacturing engineer/plant worker trained on assembling equipment, how much that training costs, and any pitfalls they have with it.

Any ideas? There isn't much information besides some general safety videos on factories on Youtube, which is helpful but still doesn't give much insight.

Should I just reach out to a bunch of engineers and see if anybody bites? Try to visit some factories?

I work in this industry, and could likely visit some manufacturing floors. Just hoping to gain some other insight beyond this and if nobody wants me to visit the factory.

Can you be more specific to what you're looking for?

If you're looking for a standard process for training front line workers on the floor I would recommend doing some research into TWI Job Instructions.

I work in a mid size manufacturing facility. We use this site as a resource to help develop processes for training our front line workers.

TWI - Training Within Industry

Training Within Industry, or TWI for short, is a set of three hands-on, "go to gemba" style training methodologies developed by the United States TWI Service at the beginning of World War II. These three methods are Job Instruction (JI), Job Relations (JR) and Job Methods (JM).

www.gembaacademy.com

Hope this helps!