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Lean Case Study: Aluminum Trailer Company

Demonstrating Training

Still inside plant # 2, Tom intro­duces Ron to John and Steve. While John explains how train­ing is now done, Steve demon­strates how he was trained to ?run screws? in a con­sis­tent pattern.

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After his screw demon­stra­tion, Ron talks more with Steve about his long time job expe­ri­ence ver­sus his new employ­ee sta­tus train­ing at ATC.

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