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The Advantages Of Web-Based Training

The Advantages Of Web-Based Training

by Wesley Howard, Managing Director, Tooling University, a Division of Jergens, Inc.

Web-based training holds great promise for manufacturers as they struggle with maintaining a skilled workforce. A quick review of today's traditional training alternatives highlight methods that can be both ineffective and inefficient: Manufacturers perceive that they cannot afford to take production down for hours or days at a time for training seminars.

High travel, lodging, and meals costs for sending employees to training.
Training often not tailored to the employer's specific needs.
Training efforts must be duplicated to reach a dispersed workforce.
Employees' work and personal schedules leave only small blocks of available time for training.
Technological changes and product redesign can quickly training course content.

Traditional distance learning media, including teleconferencing, text-based courses, audio courses, video courses, and text-based training all can help -- but each has drawbacks and can't solve all the problems mentioned above.

In this light, web-based training has important advantages: web-based training potentially replaces 100 percent of classroom, video, audio, and text-based training.
Web-based training is deliverable on-demand to any web browser, anywhere in the world, even to a workstation on a CNC tool on the shop floor.
Web-based training provides education and product training in whatever time increments the employee or customer requires.
Web-based training content is instantly updateable without republishing manuals, CD ROMs, books, videos, and tapes.

Web-based training that is designed specifically for the metalworking industry is already on the scene. Tooling University (www.toolingU.com) gives you a good idea of what web-based training has to offer. Other sources are bound to follow, giving the metalworking industry a head start in the race to meet the training challenge.