Production operator training and onboarding

Every week a new operator is not yet autonomous costs twice: their station is not producing fully, and the colleague training them is not doing their own job.

The problem: onboarding consumes your most experienced people's time

Traditional onboarding relies on shadowing: an experienced colleague 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 CAPTiX

• The proven way of doing each job (a sub-assembly, a torque sequence, an end-of-line check) is filmed once by a colleague, at the real station.
• CAPTiX Studio turns the video into a step-by-step instruction with key points and safety notes, in the new operator's language.
• The new operator follows it on a phone at the station: they see the gestures, the sequence and the context. For long or safety-critical jobs, CAPTiX XR adds hands-free training in a headset.
• The team leader follows progress in the competence matrix and goes back to supervision and production instead of repeating the same explanation.

New hires no longer learn from whoever has time; everyone follows the same proven steps, 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.
• A colleague films the job once, and the instruction does the work for every subsequent hire.

Where to start?

With the one station that has the highest turnover or the longest onboarding. Filming the first job there shows the effect on the plant's own numbers, with no IT project and no change to existing processes.

One colleague films the job once. The whole line follows the same instruction.