Job Methods

Job Methods
Course by TWI Leadership at your Facility

OVERVIEW

Job Methods Training (JM) teaches supervisors how to improve the way jobs are accomplished. The aim of the program is to help produce greater quantities of quality products in less time by making the best use of the manpower, machines, and materials now available. 

Job Methods, just as in Job Instructions and Job Relations, teaches the "Four Step Method:" a simple, straight forward, and easy to implement process focused on Preparation, Presentation, Application, and Testing. Job Methods teaches supervisors how to break down a specified job exactly as it is currently completed, question every detail, develop a new and improved method, and then apply the new method.    

By applying six simple questions -- why? what? where? when? who? how? – to every step of the production process, supervisors gain understanding of the core value of each detail. Through eliminating, combining, rearranging, and simplifying these details, an improved method is created. Lastly, participants are given the tools to communicate the value of the new process, acquiring employee commitment of the new method. 

Job Methods yields significant benefits including reduced cost through productivity gains, increased throughput, and reduced work in process.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

  • Train supervisors in how to effectively solve problems 
  • Increase production by at least 25% 
  • Reduce training time by 25% or more 
  • Reduce labor-hours by over 25% 
  • Reduce scrap by at least 25% 
  • Reduce grievances by more than 25%

LOGISTICS

JM consists of five sessions in five consecutive days for a maximum of ten participants. The first session is three hours, and the four remaining sessions are two hours. Additional time for practical application will be expected of the participants to practice their new knowledge in the workplace both alone and with the facilitator.
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