Modern Training & Learning for Today’s Manufacturing

Exciting changes are sweeping through the manufacturing sector.

Manufacturing industry 4.0 trends such as the rise of robots, automation, smart manufacturing, immersive tech, and others are rapidly shifting the manufacturing landscape.

Now more than ever, manufacturers are needing to rethink how they approach training to ensure they don’t fall behind in a rapidly evolving industry.

The High-Stakes of Keeping Pace with Training in Manufacturing

The stakes are higher than ever for manufacturers.

Learning & training to stay at the forefront of change is not only about enabling growth and success by utilizing the latest tools and technologies, it also is instrumental in attracting critical new talent.

Falling behind also increases operational risks and environmental impact. Plus, without the insights provided by AI and data analytics, strategic decision-making suffers, making your factory less agile and responsive to market demands.

That’s why advanced manufacturers like Siemens and ABB are leaving behind legacy LMS systems for ExpertusONE’s modern learning platform – purpose-built to deliver the training and upskilling today’s manufacturers need to remain competitive.

ExpertuONE: Learning & Training for World-Class Manufacturers

ExpertusONE’s AI-powered learning platform helps these world-class manufacturers, their employees, and partners maintain their 4.0 edge with award-winning features and functionality that are simply unmatched by traditional LMS systems, including:

Constantly evolving OSHA regulations require regular updates to training programs, with non-compliance leading to fines and legal issues.

How ExpertusONE Helps

Skills Platform for Regulatory Compliance: ExpertusONE’s Skills Platform enables the management of regulatory compliance and standard management, supporting adherence to evolving regulations such as EPA, OSHA, and FDA requirements.

Streamlined Reporting and Learning Interface: Provides a user-friendly learning interface and streamlined reporting capabilities to meet compliance requirements efficiently.

Integrated Communication Tools: Utilizes integrated communication tools for managers to assign training content and follow up on course completion, ensuring compliance among employees.

Assessment and Reminder Tools: The built-in assessment tool—along with sending reminder notifications for required training, certification expirations, due dates, and upcoming sessions—helps maintain compliance and supports effective scheduling and tracking.

Certification Management: Manages certification programs and sends reminders for expirations and overdue, aiding in compliance maintenance and facilitating effective tracking.

Learning Data Analysis for Compliance Nudges: Analyzes learning data and utilizes features like “Sticky Header” and “Items Need Attention” to nudge users toward critical compliance-related actions, enhancing engagement and facilitating tracking and compliance management.

Deep Integration with Communication Platforms: Features deep integrations with MS Teams and Zoom for auto-scheduling and automatic attendance marking, streamlining the training process, and ensuring compliance.

Diverse departments, shifts, and locations make consistent training a challenge, affecting safety knowledge and practices.

How ExpertusONE Helps

Multi-Portal Capability for Consistent Training Delivery: ExpertusONE’s multi-portal capability ensures consistent training across diverse departments, shifts, and locations, with the ability to configure portals for different divisions, brands, or entities. This feature supports standardization while allowing for customization according to specific organizational needs.

Targeted Information Broadcasts: Utilizes announcement sections and banners to broadcast targeted information, supporting the development of a safety culture and ensuring all stakeholders are informed of training activities, thereby aiding in standardization efforts.

Unified Learning Management: Consolidates formal, informal, and virtual learning into one centralized platform, facilitating the standardization of training content and delivery methods.

Group Functionality and Catalog Management: Offers group functionality and specific catalog management to accommodate language and cultural differences, ensuring training standardization while catering to diverse audience needs.

Content Management System (CMS): Provides a comprehensive CMS that supports the standardization of training materials through content versioning and the support of various content types, adapting training to new technologies.

Smart Workflow Automation: Employs automation for smart workflows, such as group assignments and AI-powered course thumbnail assignments, enhancing the efficiency of training standardization and technological adaptation.

Manager’s Dashboard and Collaboration Hub: Features a manager’s dashboard with a “Collaboration Hub” for monitoring team training progress, ensuring standardized training across teams by providing visibility into assignments and completions.

Integration with Salesforce: Offers deep integration with Salesforce to provide a seamless learning experience within a familiar platform, facilitating standardized training delivery, engaging users, and enabling detailed tracking and reporting.

Traditional, theory-heavy training methods often fail to engage manufacturing workers, who benefit more from hands-on learning.

How ExpertusONE Helps

Automated Notifications and Alerts: ExpertusONE features over 100+ automated notifications for users, managers, instructors, and admins, including an alert system to keep learners informed and engaged through timely reminders and updates.”

Interactive Assessment Tools: The built-in assessment tool with configurable pass percentages and attempt limits engages learners by interactively validating their knowledge, supporting compliance and retention.

“Interaction Studio” for Engaging Content: Introduces the “Interaction Studio” authoring tool that allows embedding of interactive elements in videos and presentations, significantly enhancing content engagement.”

Training Plan Functionality: Provides flexibility in blending various learning activities into cohesive pathways or journeys, including certifications and learning paths/curriculums, to offer a relevant and engaging user experience.

Virtual Meeting Module for Interactive Sessions: ExpertusONE Meetings include live sessions, shared whiteboards, and real-time communication tools, with automatic attendance tracking to facilitate engaging coaching and mentoring.

Intuitive and User-Friendly Interface: Offers a visually appealing interface with exceptional usability features like “take a tour” guides, making the learning experience easy and engaging for users.

Mobile Accessibility and Presence Sensing: Enhances engagement with mobile registration and presence sensing for attendance, ensuring training is accessible and interactive across devices.

Responsive Design and Device Agnosticism: Ensures that learners can access training materials from any device, improving flexibility and engagement through responsive design and cross-platform compatibility.

AI-Powered Recommendations: Utilizes robust and AI-powered engines to personalize learning experiences based on job roles and user behavior, fostering engagement through tailored content.

Advanced Search Functionality: Features advanced search functionalities and predictive search to streamline access to relevant training materials, improving user experience and engagement.

Centralized Learning Dashboard: The “My Learning” dashboard offers a real-time overview of all learning activities, enhancing engagement by enabling learners to track their progress and compliance easily.

Integration with Work Tools and Salesforce: Offers headless learning features with integrations into Slack, MS Teams, and Salesforce, providing in-the-flow learning opportunities within familiar work platforms to boost engagement and retention.

The round-the-clock nature of manufacturing and dispersed workforce make it hard to schedule training without disrupting production.

How ExpertusONE Helps

Resource Scheduling and Management: ExpertusONE enables admins to build a resource library, schedule classes, and perform conflict checks to prevent double booking, complemented by a calendar view for easy scheduling.

Mobile Registration and Presence Sensing: Enhances training accessibility with mobile registration and presence sensing for automatic attendance marking, simplifying the process for both learners and instructors.

ExpertusONE Meetings for Virtual Learning: Offers a virtual meeting module with features like live sessions and automatic attendance tracking, making it easier to schedule training without disrupting work.

Responsive Web Application: Delivers a seamless learning experience across all devices with a responsive design, ensuring training is accessible on any mobile device or computer, with the ability to start on one device and resume on another seamlessly.

Advanced Search and Workflow-Based Content Search: Provides advanced search functionalities and the generation of dynamic shareable links for easy access to training, improving the findability of relevant materials and courses.

Headless Learning Features and Integration with Work Tools: Integrates with Slack, MS Teams, Zoom, and Outlook, offering flexible learning opportunities and auto-scheduling features to enhance accessibility and engagement without scheduling conflicts.

Mobile Learning Without Internet Access: Supports offline mobile learning, ensuring remote workers can access training materials even without an internet connection.

Embeddable Widgets and Dynamic Shareable Links: Places training catalog in frequently visited locations (websites, social media, emails, SharePoint) and generates links for accessing training outside the LMS, enhancing learning flexibility and integration with daily workflows.

Comprehensive Class Management: Allows admins to manage class registrations, capacities, and scheduling effectively, minimizing disruptions to production schedules.

Automated Notifications for Scheduling Support: Utilizes automated notifications for incomplete training, certification expirations, and upcoming sessions to assist in compliance and scheduling.

Manual tracking of training progress is prone to errors, and poor reporting can hide training gaps and compliance issues.

How ExpertusONE Helps

Comprehensive Reporting Capabilities: ExpertusONE comes equipped with over 100+ out-of-the-box reports covering aspects like progress, compliance, content usage, and audit trails. Additionally, customers can create custom reports using a drag-and-drop design wizard, eliminating the need for technical skills.

Skills Gap Analysis: The ExpertusONE Skills Platform offers tools for talent admins to perform skills gap analysis across various metrics (individuals, teams, job roles, etc.), with dashboards and drill-down capabilities to identify skill gaps and recommend appropriate training.

Learning Record Store (LRS) for Detailed Analysis: Features a native LRS that captures comprehensive learner-content interaction data, enabling detailed reporting on learner behaviors, content effectiveness, and question-level item analysis.

Integration with Business Intelligence Tools: Provides robust analytics on courses, certifications, and learning paths and supports the integration of this data with customers’ business intelligence tools for a broader analysis of learning data alongside CRM/sales or performance/talent data.

Audit Trails and On-Demand Information: Offers detailed audit trails for every learning object and robust reporting and analytics tools for on-demand information requests, enhancing the ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and manage training programs efficiently.

ONE-Profile Card for Training Verification: Introduces a QR code-based solution (ONE-Profile Card) to simplify the verification process of employee training accomplishments, streamlining reporting and compliance verification.

Visual and Mobile Reporting: Supports simple report generation for managers, admins, and learners, including visual reporting tools for real-time snapshots of learner status, progress, and engagement, accessible via both mobile and desktop.

Administrator Role Support for Customization: Allows for the assignment of specific permissions to various administrator roles, facilitating the efficient management and customization of training programs to enhance tracking and reporting capabilities.

Manager’s Dashboard and Collaboration Hub: The manager’s dashboard, featuring a “Collaboration Hub,” enables managers to monitor their team’s training progress, ensuring standardized training and providing visibility into assignments and completions.

Learning Data Analysis Features: Utilizes learning data analysis and engagement features like “Sticky Header” and “Items Need Attention” to nudge users toward critical compliance and training actions, aiding in the tracking and management of training effectiveness.

Salesforce Integration for Enhanced Tracking: The Salesforce integration enhances the learning experience within a familiar platform, supporting standardized training delivery, engaging users, and enabling detailed tracking and reporting.

As the industry adopts new technologies, training must evolve to ensure safe operation of new machinery and processes.

How ExpertusONE Helps

Mobile First Design: ExpertusONE prioritizes superior user productivity through a Mobile First design, adopting the latest mobile app technologies, including voice integration and push notifications, for an enhanced, productive user experience.

Skills Platform for Gap Analysis: Utilizes a comprehensive Skills Platform to perform skill gap analyses across various dimensions, facilitating the adaptation of training to new technological changes. This platform includes a Gap Dashboard, Library, and Skills to Job Role Mapping features, supporting reskilling and upskilling efforts.

Job Role and Skills Mapping: The Skills Platform enables the mapping of job roles to relevant skills at expected proficiency levels, tying these skills directly to courses. It supports the accurate acquisition of necessary skills for job roles, feeding into Talent/Performance management systems for comprehensive performance reviews, appraisals, and job profiling. This functionality aids in assembling teams with the right skills for new projects, ensuring alignment with technological advancements.

Smart Workflow Automation: Features automation for smart workflows, including group assignments and AI-powered course thumbnail assignments, to support the standardization of training while facilitating adaptation to technological changes.

Dynamic Shareable Links: Offers the capability to generate dynamic shareable links for accessing training outside the traditional LMS environment. This feature enhances flexibility and integration with business applications, promoting continuous learning without scheduling conflicts and adapting seamlessly to technological advancements.

Diverse workforces necessitate training that is understandable and culturally sensitive to all employees.

How ExpertusONE Helps

Global Learning Optimization: ExpertusONE simplifies global learning through support for multiple languages, integrated user data and authentication, automated notifications, and profile-driven user management. This approach optimizes the learning experience for a globally diverse workforce by making training accessible and culturally sensitive.

Intuitive and Engaging User Experience: Provides a user experience that is intuitive for various skill levels, from skilled labor to engineers, marketing, and sales professionals. The flexibility of the user interface, personalized to each learning audience while being sourced from a centralized platform, ensures engagement across different cultural backgrounds.

Skills Platform for Cultural Sensitivity: The Skills Platform performs skill gap analyses that can address diverse workforce needs, including language and cultural considerations. It enables the mapping of job roles to relevant skills and courses, facilitating training that is culturally sensitive and relevant to all employees.

Group Functionality for Tailored Training: Offers group functionality and specific catalog management to support the standardization of training while accommodating language and cultural differences. This feature ensures that training materials are understandable and respect the cultural nuances of a diverse workforce.

Personalized Learning Experiences: Utilizes robust and AI-powered recommendation engines to personalize learning experiences based on various factors, such as job role and user behavior. This personalization supports cultural sensitivity by tailoring learning content to meet the specific needs and preferences of individual learners.

Creating a proactive safety culture requires more than one-time training, emphasizing ongoing education and reinforcement.

How ExpertusONE Helps

Robust Recommendation Engine: ExpertusONE’s recommendation engine delivers personalized course suggestions by analyzing various factors, including user profile data, manager recommendations, and AI-driven insights based on skills, competencies, interests, and previous course behavior. This feature ensures that learners receive the most relevant training for ongoing education and reinforcement.

Skills Platform for Continuous Learning: The ExpertusONE Skills Platform supports upskilling and reskilling within the learning ecosystem (encompassing employees, customers, partners, etc.) through features like the Skills Gap Dashboard, Skills Library, and Skills to Job Role Mapping. This platform is designed to facilitate continuous learning and skill development, essential for fostering a safe culture.

Learner Dashboard for Engagement: A visually appealing and action-based learner dashboard (“My Learning”) presents a comprehensive view of the user’s learning journey, including learning records, enrollments, progress, and pending activities, all available at a glance in real-time. This dashboard promotes ongoing engagement by clearly showing what training has been completed and what is next, enabling learners to continue with just one click.

Automated Notifications and Alerts: Automated notifications and alerts keep learners informed about their training progress, upcoming sessions, and compliance requirements, playing a crucial role in reinforcing a safety culture by ensuring continuous engagement and awareness.

Targeted Information Broadcasts: The announcement section and banners facilitate the broad dissemination of information relevant to safety training and culture development. By targeting specific audiences, ExpertusONE ensures that all stakeholders remain well-informed about current and upcoming safety initiatives and training opportunities.

Some ExpertusONE Manufacturing Customers

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