Training Within Industry

How stable is your Continuous Improvement Process? Could it be more sustainable?

Let the University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services introduce you to TWI – Training Within Industry. TWI was introduced to manufacturing during WWII to train replacement workers for those who had gone to war. Over the years it has become part of the foundation for continuous improvement activities for large automotive manufacturers.

TWI consists of three separate programs: Job Relations, Job Instruction and Job Methods.

• Job Relations is designed to help shift the culture towards continuous improvement and to help supervisors deal with the people problems encountered with the change in culture.
• Job Instruction is the step to develop basic stability of your processes. This program provides the method to quickly, safely and consistently instruct an operator how to perform a job.
• Job Methods wraps up your continuous improvement program by building on the skills of the operators and the first line leaders (team leaders, supervisors, cell leaders…) This program will enhance most team based continuous improvement programs by delivering a high volume of small incremental improvements from individuals.
  

Job Instruction 8 hour Agenda

Day 1 – (4 hours) Interactive instruction on the Job Instruction 4 step method used to effectively teach workers how to do their jobs correctly, consistently and safely. Participants will learn how to effectively breakdown a job and apply the 4–step method using the Job Breakdown.

Day 2 – (4 hours) Each participant will bring a Job Breakdown of something from their worksite that they can teach to a fellow class participant using the JI 4-step method. Each participant will receive feedback on their presentation and Job Breakdown. After all presentations are complete participants will take a fill in the blank test based on the JI 4-step method.

About the Instructor:

Dan Matthews has more than 14 years of supervisory and management experience with Toyota Motor Manufacturing and Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing. He is skilled as a trainer, coach and implementer of Lean Manufacturing, having trained hundreds of associates in the methods of the Toyota Production System (TPS).

During his time with Toyota, Dan also became experienced in training associates in the elements of Training Within Industry (TWI) – Job Instruction, Job Methods and Job Relations. These programs are widely recognized as the foundation for Lean Manufacturing.

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