I have heard one brief reference to Ford(?) using an internal internet
called an intranet, but I don't have any details. Presumably it is a WWW
type thing with hot links through its information databases. Maybe such a
system would allow people to make changes at the workstation (which
captures the knowledge) and records who has read the new knowledge (which
shows who is learning) - but many types of techical knowledge bits could
need to be viewed by a subject matter expert first (?).
Any comments on what works, what doesn't?
Thanks in advance,
Robert Watson
Australia
Introducing myself:
I am a chemical engineer, turned TQM/QA professional, turned Human
Resources manager now working fulltime to design the people systems for a
new manufacturing facility making steel sections (angles and channels).
Being greenfield, we hope that we can avoid a lot of the paradigms in our
more established plants. We have looked at Miller/Trenton OH and Hills Pet
Nutrition/Richmond Vermont(?).
We are told that greenfields always begin with great shelves of training
manuals which, after the inital burst of training, simply gather dust,
since noone has yet devised a system which balances the need to record the
changed knowledge and the need to get on with the job!
Thanks
Robert Watson fax +61 49 411653
e-mail rgw@ozemail.com.au
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