An interactive user-friendly shop floor training process combining best practices, documents, web base and technology.

Manufacturing at Hammond Power Solutions is a combination of catalogue products as well as custom engineered one off designs. This presentation will illustrate and discuss the shift from traditional training methods to advanced training in both repeatable and custom manufacturing. This was developed through the use of PDF’s via hyperlinks to pictures, videos and document references. The training was designed with the objective of a user-friendly learn and apply approach.

This dramatically reduces the waste typically associated with text book and buddy training practices.

You will hear how our training process was developed by shop floor practitioners, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance and Information Systems personnel from 3 different cultures stretched throughout North America. The new format is interactive, visual, consistent, and easily maintainable to current standards.

Attendees at this presentation will observe traditional vs. new lean methods to train a process that can vary from 20 minutes to 40 hours and include over 100 different techniques. As a prelude to this presentation attendees will see the potential of:

• visual shadow board
• linking documents with visual indicators
• eliminating questionable quality
• 50%+ reduction in training time on new hires
• Perpetual instruction that matches the employee’s pace
• Improved flexibility for capacity growth
• Job excitement & satisfaction
• Standardized documented training process for all locations

In our journey towards Lean it has been said a “picture is worth a thousand words” we also believe a “video is worth a thousand pictures”. Effective training it’s a sign of the times will you be ready?

Hammond Power Solutions Inc. (HPS) began in 1917 making tools for the foundry industry. The new technology of radio broadcasting fascinated the Hammonds, and as a result they began to build radios in 1919. They then focused their efforts on transformers for the broadcast industry and today HPS has four manufacturing facilities located in Canada, the United States and Mexico. It is a publicly traded company and has the broadest product offering of any dry type transformer manufacture in North America. These include control transformers, distribution transformers, line reactors, and very large power transformers for industrial, commercial, and utility applications. HPS also prides itself in its ability to provide custom engineered solutions to Global market applications.

Bob Yusyp, Plant Manager Monterrey Mexico

Bob has been in manufacturing for more than 25 years. He holds a bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering and has spent most of his career in this same capacity. Types of industry range from heavy equipment construction and machining, high volume metal enclosure fabrication, custom metal fabrication, to dry type transformer manufacturing. In addition to the field of manufacturing engineering, he has held various positions within these industries from managing departments in engineering design, production control, purchasing, warehousing, to plant production management and general manager of custom operations. Bob has spent the last ten years at HPS in product development coordinating manufacturing engineering projects at multi plant locations and has recently taken the position as Plant Manager of the Mexican facility.

Russell Deacon, Information Systems Manager

Russell Deacon is the Information Systems Manager at Hammond Power Solutions. Graduating from the University of Waterloo with a Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Russell is able to apply his Engineering Skills to the fast and ever changing area of Information Systems Technology. Responsible for System Operations as well as In House Software Development, Russell is able to provide leading edge solutions to a variety of projects while leveraging current technology to new unexplored areas in a Manufacturing environment.

Frank Dolinsek, Lean Manufacturing Coordinator/Maintenance

Frank Dolinsek has worked as a hands on practitioner in a manufacturing environment for the past 30 years. They include shop floor operations, Manufacturing supervision, Maintenance & Plant Manufacturing Engineering supervision, Group Human Resources continuous improvement coordinator and Lean MFG coordinator. Value Stream Mapping, 5S, blitz improvements, lean initiatives, visual indicators, coaching and special projects fills his day. Frank has an energetic passion for building committed relationships. He delivers a 2 day High Performance Relationships program aimed at developing behavioural skills to equip people with a common language for interacting both up & down stream throughout the organization. Frank has delivered this event to over 500 people both in Canada and the United States. He believes linking business and people through relationships is the recipe for success and essential discoveries. Frank is married and has two daughters. He enjoys the outdoors and spending time with his family and has a passion for archery.