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Why Does My Company Need This Program?
Today, companies are lucky if they have a mentor to teach for newer and less experienced employees how to use gages; many companies don't. At the same time, measuring equipment is becoming more sophisticated and dimensional requirements tighter. In other words, accurate and precise measuring has never been more important, yet the resources available for training operators and machinists are more limited than they ever have been. That is until Gage Mentor, an interactive multimedia computer-based training program.
If you already provide gage training
Companies that use Gage Mentor find that it is an excellent replacement for classroom training. Instead of having to take several people away from their job for several hours or sometimes even days, with Gage Mentor they can train people when it is most convenient. This significantly reduces the cost of training because it takes non-productive time, such as equipment changeovers or unexpected maintenance shutdowns, and turns it into productive training time.
In addition, with Gage Mentor you can train employees around the clock, seven days a week. No longer will third shift be left out of training opportunities. Companies using Gage Mentor also find that training time is cut in half over the time it takes to teach the same information in a classroom. That's because learners control the speed of the training and can proceed at their pace, not that of the instructor. Gage Mentor assures that each employee receives the same, technically correct message. You don't have to worry that your training will be inconsistent as sometimes happens with classroom and on-the-job training.
If you don't already provide gage training
Without training, your employees may not be correctly measuring parts. This means that they could be accepting bad parts that in turn get shipped to your customers. Or, it could mean that good parts are being rejected resulting in unnecessary scrap and rework. If you are not sure if your employees need gage training, go out on the shop floor and see how they measure parts. If you see gages being misused, inadequate gage discrimination being measured, and gages with expired gage calibration stickers, you have a problem.
Until now, the only way to solve your problem was to either provide classroom or one-on-one training to each employee who use gages at your site. That meant resources had to be taken away from other important projects to address the training problem. Because Gage Mentor does the training for you, you don't have the problem of juggling resources. You can continue to focus on key projects and still know that your employees are being trained.
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