Customer Goals

This customer’s ultimate goal with Dozuki was to create a world class training and upskilling program within their manufacturing operations.

Historically, their facilities relied on job shadowing and word of mouth for operator training. Their training team was tasked with thinking outside of the box for their standard work manuals.

The company realized they had a need to create and distribute work instructions digitally. With high numbers of retiring staff and extremely out of date documentation held in paper binders, standardizing process information was a must.

Sensitive assembly lines for perishable products meant changeover errors were costing the company millions of dollars a year in defects, supply chain issues, and profit losses.

One of their Training Managers reported they lose approximately $3 million dollars a year on just one line due to poor frontline training. If frontline employees change one little thing incorrectly, it could cause the lids not to be sealed properly, which could explode. Errors like this cause raw material waste and huge profit losses.

Why did they choose Dozuki?

Our customer needed a central solution for maintaining changeover processes. Previously all they had was a generic spreadsheet with measurements, but no specific work instructions, tools, or images. They chose Dozuki because it gave their frontline employees easy and instant access to key information from a tablet, rather than one person on each shift having knowledge for a single task.

“90% of our issues come from poor frontline training and a lack of documentation,” the Training Manager explained. “Dozuki gave employees a tool to help them fix a jam right away and not have to wait for help. Now the knowledge was all right in front of him. The Dozuki connected worker solution is on track to save just one line millions of dollars this year. It’s a game changer.”

Initially, Dozuki was piloted at one facility. Once results were shown, that facility has become a lighthouse for future rollouts across the enterprise.

How has Dozuki changed their day to day operations?

Prior to launching the Dozuki connected worker solution, most employees relied on text heavy information and content, which lacked any visual context or support. Now that work instructions had photos and videos embedded in them, the frontline had a visual aid to reinforce processes, reducing the potential for errors.

Employees created a desktop shortcut on each of the floor computers and tablets. When the employee clicks the shortcut, it takes them to a page made specifically for their job functions using custom wikis and process lists.

All frontline operators are granted permission to be authors. If they don’t see something on their site, then they can create a process. Now employees have access to all the information they need to perform their work, rather than one person on one shift having knowledge for one task.

For training around basic technical tasks like bearings, lubrication, valves and their basic function, the company started deploying training courses to their maintenance technicians, some of whom have been in their roles for over 16 years.

Digital training helped close gaps in basic manufacturing frontline knowledge. This lack of assumed knowledge would have eventually turned into downtime.

But with Dozuki, every process is laid out in an easy to understand, efficient digital layout. There was no question about what their workers needed to do next to be successful.

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