Training Within Industry (TWI)

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
  
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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.

Don Dinero will be delivering a TWI Presentation at the Management Workshop of the Snack Food Association at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, VA on September 15. (sfa.org)

Do you have a question

about TWI?

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

                                                                     TWI Directory or

Check out these sites:

http://www.trainingwithinindustry.net/

http://www.trainingwithinindustry.blogspot.com/

Art Smalley's web site  artoflean.com

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

A 2006 Recipient of the
Shingo Research Prize

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

TWI stands for Training Within Industry and was a service created by the War Department just prior to World War II. Because we knew that a world war was inevitable and the productivity in the USA 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

• Job Methods

• Job Relations

• Program Development

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

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.