Training Within Industry (TWI) Symposium - Birmingham, AL

Overview

The Alabama Technology Netwiork (ATN) in collaboration with the TWI Summit will present the Alabama TWI Symposium.

Symposium Agenda...

8:00 – 8:30 AM Registration/Refreshments
8:30 – 9:00 AM Overview of TWI
History of TWI
9:00 - 10:00 Is there a problem you need to solve right now?
Is it: Waste, reworks, defects, staff turnover, or
stagnating improvements?

The TWI Solutions:
Standard Work Solution: Job Instruction
HR Solution: Job Relations
Continuous Improvement Solution: Job Methods
All of the above: Problem Solving

10:00 -10:15 Break
10:15 – 10:45 The keys to successful TWI implementation
10:45 – 12:00 How to develop your needs assessment and proposal
for TWI
12:00 – 12:30 Wrap up and Q & A

Registration Fee: $345

Registration via the Web: http://www.twisummit.com/symposium/birmingham.asp

Following this symposium:

- You will be able to speak about TWI with confidence by creating a
TWI fact sheet of your own.
- You will be able to find additional information and assistance with
TWI with a customized list of resources and contact information.
- You will be able to do a step by step TWI needs assessment for
your company.
- You will be able to write a TWI proposal for your company.


Meet the instructor: Patrick Graupp:

Senior Master Trainer
(JI, JR, JM, JS, PS)

Patrick began his training career at the SANYO Electric Corporate Training Center in Japan after graduating with Highest Honors from Drexel University in 1980. There he learned to deliver TWI and other training to prepare employees for assignment outside of Japan. He in turn was also transferred to a compact disc fabrication plant in Indiana where he obtained manufacturing experience before returning to Japan to become Programs Master Trainer delivering TWI around the world for Sanyo. Patrick earned an MBA from Boston University during this time and later published a book on how to teach Japanese staff to implement Job Methods Training outside of Japan. He was then promoted to the head of Human Resources for SANYO North America Corp. in San Diego, CA where he settled.

Patrick took vacation time to deliver a pilot project for CNYTDO in 2001 to reintroduce TWI in the US, and again in 2002 to reintroduce the full TWI Program at ESCO Turbine Technologies-Syracuse. The results at ESCO encouraged Patrick to leave SANYO in 2002 and work with CNYTDO to deliver and document how to deliver the TWI program in the US as he was taught in Japan and which he described in his book The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors, a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize Recipient for 2007. These standardized training manuals and materials are now used by the TWI Institute to train and certify trainers on how to deliver JR, JI and JM as was done by the TWI Service during WWII. Patrick also documented the format on how he was trained in Japan while training two other TWI Master Trainers (trainer of trainers) like himself. TWI is now readily available nationally and in Spanish from the TWI Institute.