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Nonwoven Tools LLC is dedicated to providing training for production floor employees in the nonwoven industry. This e-mail is being sent to you to provide you every week with training materials you can use. Please refer others in your organization to us. Forward this e-mail to them and remind them to click on the "Join Our Mailing List" link. Thanks
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Term Definition - Bow Roll
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Job Analysis
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 One thing certain about our industry is that things change. In this economy we are constantly downsizing, rightsizing, and hopefully up-sizing. All this creates havoc on the production floor with job duties. Can you keep up with this? More importantly, can the production employees? How do they know what they are supposed to do?
One of the first things I do when working with a company is to break down each job into the tasks needed to perform that job. This involves going onto the floor, observing each employee, and making a list of tasks. Once that is done, I then break down each task into sub tasks that eventually become bullet points for training.
This process is not to be confused with a job description. This is much more detailed than a job description. A job description usually hits just the high points of what is done as well as including relationships with other employees and company policy issues.
After making a list of tasks and sub tasks, I analyze the importance of these in various areas. All this is somewhat self explanatory if you will download the forms I use. You can click on these below. They are also available on the odds and ends page in the help center on my website. The forms are in Excel so you can modify them according to your needs.
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A Conversation At IDEA10
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 At IDEA10 I spoke with many nonwoven manufacturers as well as machinery suppliers. I told them that I did not think that production employees were being adequately trained. Not one single person disagreed with me!
I had a long conversation with one of the large European machinery manufacturers. He said they do a good job of training the first group of employees in a new installation, but that the employees after that do not receive anywhere near the same amount of training. He also said that the training materials produced by their company are rather generic and they do not have the resources to customize the training materials for every individual installation. He said he would welcome Nonwoven Tools enhancing his training materials for a customer. Of course the customer would need to have enough vision to see that dollars invested in training pay large dividends and reduce downtime and defects.
Whether you are a machinery supplier or a fabric manufacturer, Nonwoven Tools LLC is ready to help you with your training needs. Contact us today.
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