Hello everyone! I’m Shohei.
This column is about what I felt and experienced at a plant factory in Japan.
When you’ve been in the field for over 10 years, a lot of things happen. I write freely about what I remember.
Please feel free to read it while thinking, “Wow, that’s how Japanese plant factories work.”
Even if you create work standards, no one will read them.
For many years, I have been supporting the operation of plant factories and working on the education of operational members. I also have experience in conducting in-house training for employees of my own company.
However, I basically think that the effect of leveling up employees through “education” by the company is limited.
Of course, if we could create a fulfilling curriculum that is tailored to the target audience, including OJT, we would be able to achieve appropriate results.
However, it is difficult to find the余裕 to spend on creating研修コンテンツ.
I think that most of them are given verbal instructions on the spot at the現場.
In a sense, it is efficient because people learn their jobs best by using their five senses on the現場, but the problem is that it depends on the level of the person teaching.
Companies are always struggling with the situation of “wanting to learn the correct technique, but not having the余裕 to teach it.”
In such a situation, the only measure that is taken in a desperate attempt is to “create a work standard document and have it read.” I have done this many times myself.
However, in reality, even if you create one, not many people will read it.
Even if they do read it, it is not easy to reflect the content they read in their work.
In other words, I think that work standard documents have the role of “defining work content”, but their effect on education is small.
However, recently, more effective methods have become easier to try.
That is to use videos as teaching materials. I feel that it is especially effective for tasks that require “speed”. Conversely, it may not be as effective for remembering “procedures”.
Since videos can be easily shot with a smartphone, you can try it casually.
It may be more effective to watch a video of a skilled person working than to read a document that summarizes the procedure in detail.
To that extent, there is no particular need to edit it.
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