Production operator training and onboarding
Shorten operators' time-to-autonomy: new hires learn from recorded expert demonstrations, step by step, right at the workstation.
Every week a new operator is not yet autonomous costs twice: their workstation is not producing fully, and the expert training them is not doing their actual job.
The problem: onboarding consumes your best people's time
Traditional onboarding relies on shadowing: an experienced worker shows, the new hire watches and tries. It works, but it doesn't scale. With turnover and seasonality, the same trainings repeat every week, and their quality depends on whoever happens to have time.
What onboarding looks like with Aikando
- The best execution of every task is recorded once, by the expert, at the real workstation.
- The new operator walks through the task step by step with a visual instruction: they see the gestures, the sequence and the context, in their own language.
- Hands stay free: the instruction accompanies the work instead of interrupting it.
- The team leader goes back to supervision and production instead of repeating the same instruction.
New hires no longer learn from whoever has time; they learn from the best, every time.
What the plant gains
- Designed to shorten time to full productivity: new hires skip trial and error.
- Repeatable training quality, independent of shift, trainer and season.
- Fewer mistakes in the first weeks: every step is shown, not described.
- The expert trains once, and the recording does the work for every subsequent hire.
Where to start?
With the one workstation that has the highest turnover or the longest onboarding. A pilot shows the effect on the plant's own numbers, with no IT project and no change to existing processes.