Plant Replica

"It's no secret that manufacturing plants all over Pennsylvania are having trouble attracting and retaining new employees."

Experienced workers are retiring and a tighter economy has made it nearly impossible to offer pay that incentivizes heroic willingness to adapt to harsh conditions. Younger generations are used to iPads and air-conditioning. Loud machinery and physical contant with dirt, grease, tools, and equipment can actually be traumatic experiences for first-time industrial employees. It may sound bizarre and even upsetting to industry veterans, but it is the reality of the dawning era.

On top of having a foggy-at-best understanding of what to do and where to go, the new hire is peppered with industry slang and technical jargon which can intimidate them and easily induce information overload.

"It's easy to understand why people are quitting before they really give the job a chance..."

Ideally, the traditional on-the-job training should clear up these issues. But the hard truth is that training is typically rushed and garbled. Training outcomes are at the mercy of the trainer's mood, their skill in effective communication, the ability to hear the trainer's voice clearly through the noise, and time constraints. (See resources on teaching employees terminology that enables them to communicate about human relation issues in the workplace more effectively)

New workers may simply quit, or fake premature competence to save face, desperate to side-step ridicule and embarrassment in their new workplace culture.

There is a better way.

is a detailed 3D model of your entire facility. Experts in communication and training create virtual courses for your new hires to learn in a focused classroom setting, rather than immediately setting them up to be inundated by foreign social and technical worlds simultaneously on day one.

Learn to navigate the workplace
Learn names and locations of all relevant equipment
Gain fine-grained knowledge of job tasks
All of this is trained virtually prior to entering the physical work environment; comfortably acclimating and building mental models of the workplace and duties - without the distracting fear of making embarrassing real-world learning mistakes
Allows new hires to join the team with confidence and an earned sense of belonging

Insight about new hire aptitudes
Direct and precise control over what is trained
Option to test navigation and task retention before graduating new hire into the physical workplace
Peace of mind knowing that production upsets, wasted product, and equipment damage are no longer part of the learning process

Providing your new hires with thorough training that can be monitored and verified before "throwing them to the wolves" gives them the opportunity to establish a greater emotional investment in the job which maximizes their performance potential and strengthens their resolve to succeed. A confident and competent workforce pays for itself.

Plant Replica©

"It's no secret that manufacturing plants all over Pennsylvania are having trouble attracting and retaining new employees."

"It's easy to understand why people are quitting before they really give the job a chance..."

There is a better way.

Plant Replica© lets your new hires:

Plant Replica© gives managers: