PILLAR 6 - Education & Training :

It is aimed to have multi-skilled revitalized employees whose morale is high and who has eager to come to work and perform all required functions effectively and independently. Education is given to operators to upgrade their skill. It is not sufficient know only "Know-How" by they should also learn "Know-why". By experience they gain, "Know-How" to overcome a problem what to be done. This they do without knowing the root cause of the problem and why they are doing so. Hence it become necessary to train them on knowing "Know-why". The employees should be trained to achieve the four phases of skill. The goal is to create a factory full of experts. The different phase of skills are
Phase 1 : Do not know.Phase 2 : Know the theory but cannot do.Phase 3 : Can do but cannot teach Phase 4 : Can do and also teach.
Policy :1. Focus on improvement of knowledge, skills and techniques.
2. Creating a training environment for self learning based on felt needs.
3. Training curriculum / tools /assessment etc conductive to employee revitalization
4. Training to remove employee fatigue and make work enjoyable.
Target :1. Achieve and sustain downtime due to want men at zero on critical machines.
2. Achieve and sustain zero losses due to lack of knowledge / skills / techniques
3. Aim for 100 % participation in suggestion scheme.
Steps in Educating and training activities :1. Setting policies and priorities and checking present status of education and training.
2. Establish of training system for operation and maintenance skill up gradation.
3. Training the employees for upgrading the operation and maintenance skills.
4. Preparation of training calendar.
5. Kick-off of the system for training.
6. Evaluation of activities and study of future approach.