Free Trial

Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on-demand subscription access to thousands of learning resources.


Share this Page URL
Help

Case: Accelerating North America > Example: Final-Assembly Skills - Pg. 243

C a pa b i l i t y 3 : K n o w l e d g e S h a r i n g more effective in the North American plants. Then, just as they had been invited to GPC to learn what GPC had discov- ered about training--where GPC had made its discoveries-- NAPSC in turn invited colleagues from Toyota's plants in Indiana, West Virginia, Ontario, and elsewhere to Kentucky, as a precursor to creating their own training centers. Before moving on, let's look at some examples of GPC's handiwork. Example: Final-Assembly Skills GPC training was designed to allow learning incrementally, iteratively, and with hands-on learning by doing. In the case of final assembly, training started with fundamental skills such as how to grab a bolt and how to use a torque wrench. Those ele- ments were combined into work elements such as shooting a