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Training Within Industry

TWI was developed in the US in the early 1940's to support the war effort by boosting industrial production.  Companies that implemented these practices declared the initiative an unqualified success.  All of them reduced training time by more than 25%, and 86% of them increased production by at least 25%.  Fifty-five percent reduced scrap by at least 25%, and all of them reduced grievances by more than 25%.

Following the war, the US discontinued the program.  Japanese companies used these principles to help rebuild its industries, and they later became the foundation for Kaizen, or Continuous Improvement.  Between 1950 and 1960, Toyota used TWI to train its employees, instituting the world's first Lean Manufacturing program.

TWI has recently been resurrected in the US, where a new generation is using it to make considerable gains in productivity.  Within this scope, supervisors learn Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing concepts and teach them to the people in their departments.  Once this is accomplished, employees apply their new skills to the jobs they do everyday.  

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