Strategies to Train, Upskill, & Engage Your Workforce

Do these challenges sound familiar?

You want to provide fulfilling careers to your team.

It takes too long to train people.

You need capable people ready to make decisions while you are away.

You want your managers to be successful leaders.

An experienced manager is cross-training an employee on an unfamiliar machine.
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Employee Training

Help Employees Grow Their Skills

Your team is the key to the success of your business. Watch your best workers become your best supervisors, and your whole team drive more efficiency on the shop floor through our training programs and network of training resources.

“Nevada Industry Excellence has consistently responded to our manufacturing, process improvement and employee development requests. Manufacture Nevada’s portfolio of services and experienced resources have been a fit to our needs in supporting and improving, both our current and future growth demands.”

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Katie Sherin
COO, Public Restroom Company
A Manufacturing Business Advisor helps train an employee on standards to improve safety on the factory floor.
Employee Retention

Keep & Train Your Best Employees

Turnover can be one of the most costly threats to a manufacturing business. We develop tailored strategies that improve employee job satisfaction and upskill your best workers, so they stick around for the long haul.

“Manufacture Nevada is an amazing resource. Pure Gold.”

Robbin Turner
Robbin Turner
President, Sable Systems International
Workforce Utilization

Help Your Employees Reach Their Full Potential

Poor time utilization can cause low morale and lead to poor team performance. Let’s work together to develop strategies to ensure your workers reach their full potential – improving your workforce’s efficiency and job satisfaction.

“Manufacture Nevada’s training and expertise in lean manufacturing provided the right tools at the right time to help grow our new product line and fit it into our existing facility. Our new Bio Cart is now a standardized product that is ready to dominate the market!”

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Aaron Kozar
VP & General Manager, Orbus Exhibit and Display
A Manufacturing Business Advisor helps train an employee on standards to improve safety on the factory floor.
Company Culture

Define & Create the Culture You Want in Your Workplace

Create a business people want to work for. Together, we can determine what it means to be a part of your company and equip your managers with the tools they need to align your whole workforce with the new vision.

"It used to be maybe an idea would get tossed out and people would say we have done it this way for 15 or 20 years, why should we change? Now our workers have set up lean manufacturing cellularized lines and let the employees design the lines and take ownership of it because it is theirs.”

Bill Martin
Bill Martin
Quality Assurance Manager, MicroMetl

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Jensen Metaltech

Rapid growth at the company led to the creation of a workforce that was experiencing high turnover. There was also a significant increase in rework, related to a combination of the turnover and weak control on manufacturing drawings. Additionally, 15% of the workforce had English as a second language. With supervisors receiving only limited basic supervision training from the Nevada Association of Employers and the rest of the workforce receiving no soft skills training at all, action had to be taken to improve retention and reduce rework costs. Jensen decided that by combining the teamwork elements of implementing a company wide 5S (sort, set in order, shine, standardize, sustain) initiative along with integrating supervisory and coaching skills, improvements could be made in both rework reduction and workforce improvements.

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Reno Cerakote

Reno Cerakote wanted to reinforce their commitment to quality while expanding to new markets and investing in personnel development. Reno Cerakote approached Manufacture Nevada, part of the MEP National Network™, for assistance with achieving ISO 9001-2015 due to Manufacture Nevada’s extremely good track record for successfully transitioning Nevada manufacturers to ISO certification.

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North Sails Minden

Manufacture Nevada local project managers conducted onsite facility assessments, reviewed manufacturing steps and concerns, and worked with North’s Operations Manager, Plant Manager and Human Resources Manager. Together they designed Lean workshops to incorporate North’s existing process and flow and encourage employee participation and idea generation for improvements. They conducted an onsite Lean workshop as an employee introduction and stimulus to lean improvement methodologies, to be followed by a more detailed session with North hosting a week long Lean Leader workshop involving key lead personnel and to delve deeper into more lean concepts and principles. They finished with an onsite workplace Kaizen improvement event and implementation in their production facility involving the manufacturing leads along with production line personnel.

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FDC Graphic Films, Inc.

Manufacture Nevada proposed 3 different options to deliver 5S tools to FDC. Consultants proposed a customized workshop with a session for each S. Ultimately the team decided that an in-house 5S workshop and implementation for the entire FDC organization would be the best way to start this program. Providing a custom 5S program designed around the Reno operation provided an optimized approach for the facility. Manufacture Nevada designed a very flexible project to allow the least disruption to the operations while providing 5S tools to the entire organization. Fibelstad wanted to ensure that the duration of each workshop would allow safe shutdown of the operation without the risk for service failures. Leadership at FDC headquarters in Indiana was very impressed with the program planned for the Reno operation.

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Air-Care

Manufacture Nevada met with Air-Care to discuss their needs. After an assessment of the manufacturing operations, Manufacture Nevada provided Lean, 5S, and Quick Changeover (SMED) training to key supervisors and line staff. The implementation phase consisted of coaching on the principles. Manufacture Nevada worked with Air-Care’s schedule and implemented lean in short visits over 3 months with very minimal disruption to their schedule.