Training Within Industry

At Round Pond Consulting

-TWI Training for the 21st Century-

Where Coaching Is Part Of The Training

The TWI Programs teach fundamental skills that help people at all levels of any organization solve problems.

Thought for the day:

        "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate."

                                 Thomas Watson Founder of IBM

                                  [From "The Drunkard's Walk"; Pantheon Books, New York, 2008]

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Do you use on the job training?

• How well does it work?
• What does it cost -
•      In time?
•      In downtime?
•      In customer satisfaction?
•      In loss of personnel?
•      In employee morale?
• How many errors casuing scrap and rework occur after the OJT?
• Has anyone ever quit because they thought they couldn't learn the job?
• Have you ever moved someone because they couldn't learn the job?
• How long does it take someone to be self-sufficient?

There is a better way!

Read about the Training Within Industry Programs.

Training Within Industry

RPCS  specializes in TWI Training in

Job Instruction, Job Methods, and Job Relations;

we help companies to create a foundation for

Lean Thinking by training its employees to:

• Transfer knowledge both formally through instruction and informally through a willing exchange of information
  
• Create standard work so there is a basis from which improvements can be made continually
  
• Improve job methods by teaching employees to see waste
  
• Improve personnel relationships so personnel problems do not hinder the gains made, making it easier to make and sustain those gains

Training Within Industry by Round Pond Consulting Services,

specializing solely in delivering the TWI Programs.

Recommendation from LinkedIn:

"Don brings a wealth of excellent knowledge to bear on a topic that is obviously a passion for him. This passion and expertise helped immensely in coaching the first Job Instruction trainers at [our company], and we've been able to build a strong foundation for both standardized work and continuous improvement because of the complete solution he provided for us."
Service Category: Business Consultant
Year first hired: 2008 (hired more than once)
Top Qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity

Donald Dinero will be presenting at the following venues:

April 8: TWI Webinar sponsored by the TWI Summit; Don's topic will be ROI of TWI; go to the Summit's website (www.TWISummit.com) and click on webinars.

May 10-11: TWI Summit; On Monday, Don will conduct an 8-hour workshop on  

Program Development, which is the original general problem-solving tool developed by the TWI Service. On Tuesday, Don will present a talk on Implementing the TWI "J" Programs. Go to the TWI Summit website to register.

June 29: The International Symposium on Engineering Education and Educational Technologies (EEET2010) to be held at the International Multi-Conference of Engineering and Technological Innovation (IMETI2010). The paper Don will deliver is titled TWI: Fundamental Skills in Today's Workplace. Go to the IMETI2010 website to register and for more information.

TWI is a set of learning disciplines that enable people doing work to effectively create, improve, train and sustain standard work themselves.

TWI helps companies by training select employees to successfully deliver the three “J” programs so that the above training can be delivered to all employees, thus creating a foundation for a Lean and a Learning Organization.

“Confidence and resourcefulness in how to proceed, not standardized solutions and rules, are developed.”

- The Training Within Industry Report, 1940-1945, page 49.

Do you have a question

about TWI?

Ask it in the TWI Forum!     Or check out TWI Summary or

                                                                     TWI Directory or

Go to this site for a

Book Review

http://projectmanagertraining.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/review-of-training-within-industry-the-foundation-of-lean-hardcover/

"Training Within Industry: the Foundation of Lean", Published by Productivity Press, May 2005

A 2006 Recipient of the
Shingo Research Prize

TWI stands for Training Within Industry and was a service created by the U.S.A. War Department just prior to World War II. Because it was known that a world war was inevitable and the productivity in the U.S.A. was ranked ninth or tenth in the world, this service was created to quickly increase productivity across the country in all industries and all companies. Although it was extremely successful, it was discontinued after the war. It was used in Japan to help that country rebuild its industry with democratic concepts. Again, it was extremely successful and was key in the formation of the Toyota Production System, which is being emulated as Lean Manufacturing. TWI/ Job Methods Training is credited with being the origin of the concept of Kaizen. The Japanese still use TWI. Indeed, some Japanese companies are now extending TWI training to their tier 1 & tier 2 suppliers.

TWI Consists of Four Programs:

• Job Instruction- enables standard work

• Job Methods-develops continual improvement

• Job Relations-improves morale & teamwork

• Program Development-general problem solving

To learn more about the three "J" programs, click here for a TWI Summary.

TWI - The Missing Link in Lean Manufacturing: The paper that led to the book presented at IIE Lean Solution Conference.

TWI changed the cultures of Japanese companies so that they became more productive and it can do the same for your company.

For more information about how TWI Training can give you payback, go to TWI - Metrics or contact Donald A. Dinero at dadinero@roundpondconsulting.com or @ (585) 305-6820.