GE Launches Brilliant Skills Curriculum to Train Workers for Digital Industrial Future
March 30 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Proprietary curriculum ‘Brilliant Learning’
will seek to train more than 150,000 global supply chain employees
to fill gaps in Digital Industrial Workforce
GE announced today a proprietary skills curriculum to train
global supply chain employees for new, highly valuable jobs needed
in our digital industrial economy. This new initiative will focus
on lean, advanced, additive and digital manufacturing. Built on
GE’s Brilliant Factory strategy, which uses big data, software,
sensors, controllers and robotics to increase productivity,
‘Brilliant Learning’ is designed for GE’s global supply chain
employees but will also be available to all employees, in multiple
languages across all levels of manufacturing roles.
Leveraging GE’s rich training and development culture, the
‘Brilliant Learning’ curriculum is custom-designed and adapted to
individual site needs. It will include seminars, workshops, online
courses and a series of immersion boot camps on lean manufacturing
practices, advanced manufacturing, additive and other digital
technologies transforming the industry. Instead of solely classroom
learning, many components of the trainings will be hands-on and
held in the manufacturing sites, including:
- Becoming Brilliant Global Online Course
– Four-week online course introducing all levels of employees to
basic concepts of the four pillars of a Brilliant Factory: lean,
advanced, additive and digital manufacturing
- Advanced Manufacturing Workshops –
Hands-on two-day learning experience for manufacturing engineers
and other leaders; Interaction with technologies; demos of additive
manufacturing processes
- Lean Manufacturing Academy – Rigorous
three-day learning and immersion for leaders such as Manufacturing
Supervisors, Operations Leaders and others to improve business
performance using lean leadership skills; Includes tours of
manufacturing facilities; simulations and real-time tasks centered
around productivity and cost savings, and on floor application of
skills
- Brilliant Leadership Seminar –
Immersion experience for senior strategic leaders that will cover
industry trends and engagement with external businesses for best
practices
“Today, manufacturing is driven by productivity – and when
combined with the merging of hardware and software, the need for a
highly skilled labor force is becoming integral to the success and
modernization of our industry,” said Philippe Cochet, GE’s Chief
Productivity Officer. “At a time when the creation and retention of
U.S. jobs in America’s manufacturing cities is more important than
ever, GE is helping to secure these jobs through the execution of
‘Brilliant Learning,’ and we hope it becomes a model for the
industry.”
GE invests more than U.S. $1 billion in employee development
each year, helping employees learn and grow at every career stage
through a broad range of classroom, social, digital and on-the-job
learning experiences.
According to the U.S. Labor Department, between 2015 and 2016 an
average of two unemployed manufacturing workers existed for each
open position. U.S. manufacturing job openings are quickly
outpacing qualified candidates, resulting in a widening skills gap
across the industry. Through the implementation of ‘Brilliant
Learning,’ GE seeks to bridge this gap by training existing
employees to use cutting-edge technology and new manufacturing
processes that will lower cost and accelerate innovation, improve
customer delivery, and elevate performance of GE’s industrial
products.
About GE
GE (NYSE:GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial Company,
transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions
that are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized
around a global exchange of knowledge, the "GE Store," through
which each business shares and accesses the same technology,
markets, structure and intellect. Each invention further fuels
innovation and application across our industrial sectors. With
people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes
for customers by speaking the language of
industry. www.ge.com
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