Job Instruction Manual - Training Within Industry Service

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Job lnstrwction Plan for War Production
6. IS it necessary to go through a complete Step I every time a worker
is instructed?
- Where there are several "instruction units'' in Operation,
naturally only one complete Step I is required. Such situations
occur frequently. The instructor might spend a half hour or
more with a worker, yet put over several instruction units. ~t
would be most unnatural to start each new unit with a complete
Step I.
Example: Part - simple steel collar
Operation - turning out the collar (originally cut to
rough dimensions) .
The practical way to "put over" this job using the four
steps is as follows:
Steps I, I1 and 111. Put in machine and true up.
Steps I1 and 111. Drill and ream.
Steps I1 and 111. Face one side and chamfer.
Steps I1 and 111. Set up for outside turning.
Steps I1 and 111. Turn outside - rough and finish.
Steps I1 and 111. Face and chamfer other side.
Step IV. (Covering entire operation.)
7. Our shop is manned by all-round mechanics only. We train through
a 4-year apprenticeship plan, so naturally this job training idea
doesn't apply in this case.
- On the contrary the job training plan advocated in this 10-hour
program applies EXACTLY the same way in developing all-round
mechanics as when developing production operators. An appren-
tice can learn a lot EASIER and faster and make fewer mistakes
and delays if he too is instructed in SMALL DOSES and trained
to do each perfectly. This means, of course, that first-line
supervisors and many of the mechanics themselves must be given
this 10 hours of training so they will know how to instruct
apprentices in this thorough-going manner.
8. Is this a speed-up system?
- Job Instruction undoubtedly increases production and often
enables employees to reach their maximum output at an early
date. Such results, however, are simply the by-products of
intelligent and sympathetic handling on the j ob. If employees
do turn out more production as a result of this program they do
so "under their own steam" and because they learn easily and
quickly. This plan simply gives each employee an opportunity
to releass his best efforts to the job.