Lean

Training Within Industry (TWI)

Cultural Background		Training Within Industry (TWI)
Kaizen and the Tools of Lean		Performance Measurement
	Administration	Lean Supply Chain
	Health Care	Lean Lexicon
	Program Delivery	Lean Library
	5 S + 2

Chugachmiut is new to the concept of TWI, and we are not yet aware of its capability. We do know that our training needs are substantial, and that we must do more in order to sustain our lean transformation. TWI, as I understand it, was developed in World War II as a means to quickly train and integrate employees for production of wartime necessities.

At the end of WWII, the TWI program included four training protocols: Job Methods (JM); Job Instruction (JI); Job Relations (JR); and Program Development (PD). JM is essentially the sequencing of work broken down into each constituent step.

JM is necessary in order to teach. JI is the teaching portion, which follows a specific order of instruction. Because we are so new to TWI, I will only refer you to a web site with good historical material and two very good books on the subject: Training Within Industry: The Foundation Of Lean (Hardcover), by Donald Dinero; and Toyota Talent (Hardcover) by Jeffrey Liker and David Meier.