Guidewheel supports effective training and cross-training programs.
With major workforce shifts, many skills are in short supply—making it more important than ever to engage and support the full team. Guidewheel can help support effective training to invest in, attract, and retain the best talent on your team.
USE GUIDEWHEEL TO IDENTIFY AND HIGHLIGHT EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE
With Guidewheel, great performance becomes visible to the full team. You can easily see which operators run the best changeovers or achieve the most perfect production runs so they can share that knowledge with others performing similar tasks.
The consistent visibility Guidewheel provides across different shifts and geographies also allows you to find the “best of the best” across the entire team rather than within one shift or one facility. For example, it may be more helpful for a new teammate to learn from an operator in a different geography who has run the exact same model of machine, rather than an operator in the same facility who runs a less relevant machine.
By identifying the specific areas in which specific teammates excel, sharing and documenting the best practices they are using, you can continuously systematize excellence and increase your resilience as a team.
USE GUIDEWHEEL TO SUPPORT TRAINING AND CROSS-TRAINING
If your team is recruiting and onboarding teammates who are learning skills for the first time, using Guidewheel to track and compare their performance and improvement can help you focus training time where it is most needed. With accurate, granular visibility, you can identify the teammates who are already performing perfectly and graduate them from training to increase your production capacity more quickly. Conversely, you can also quickly spot who hasn’t yet mastered important skills and provide additional training to avoid potential catastrophe. Guidewheel also provides you with the ability to easily report on performance by teammate, which allows you to pair teammates for cross-training in multiple different areas. This article in Plastics Technology describes some specific examples of ways manufacturers have used Guidewheel for cross-training across their teams.
ENGAGE YOUR TEAM IN FRIENDLY COMPETITION
Many manufacturers use Guidewheel to display results in public areas, which can create friendly results-based competition to drive key metrics.
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