Training Within Industry

Training Within Industry
Author: Donald Dinero
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-02-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1482278375

Winner of a Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research Training Within Industry, by Donald Dinero, explores a crucial piece of a Lean initiative that has been overlooked throughout U.S. industry. The Training Within Industry (TWI) program developed by the United States during World War II has

Training Within Industry

Training Within Industry
Author: Enna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781897363928

Training Within Industry is the structural genesis of Lean Manufacturing and the heart of kaizen, the practice of small continuous improvements. From the Toyota Production System to the standardization of training retail sales clerks, Training Within Industry proves that true innovation is timeless. The training material contained in this 8 1/2 x 11", 84 page Training Within Industry book is as applicable today as it was when it was first written down, decades ago.

Building a Global Learning Organization

Building a Global Learning Organization
Author: Patrick Graupp
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498700640

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book, Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Groupā€˜s worldwide Learning Organization. The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures, it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization. Providing expert insight into the work of culture change, the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success, identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way, and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application. The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book, you will gain valuable insight into how your organization whether large or small, national or international can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture.

Standardized Work with TWI

Standardized Work with TWI
Author: Bartosz Misiurek
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-04-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498737560

This book presents what the training within industry (TWI) program is and how its presence affects the understanding of work standardization, focusing on the practical aspects of the implementation of work standardization in the elimination of human errors in manufacturing and service processes.

Implementing TWI

Implementing TWI
Author: Patrick Graupp
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1439825971

Featuring strategies employed in Lean, this volume describes the experiences of organizations using TWI more than 60 years after the Training Within Industry program turned the U.S. into the industrial giant that won World War II. Based on their experience implementing TWI in organizations as diverse as Virginia Mason Medical Center and Donnelly Ma