Vivid Learning Systems helps leading manufacturer gain ground using standard training platform
Pasco, WA – October 20, 2008 - Ingersoll Rand Company (IR) is a 100-year-old leading manufacturer of climate control, industrial productivity and security products – including Schlage locks – operating more than 80 production facilities worldwide with annual revenues approaching $10 billion. Since the company’s founding a century ago, it has retained top positions in the markets in which it competes. Key to the company’s success has been an abiding commitment to customers and a concentrated effort to achieve operational excellence.
With 30 facilities and more than 400 service technicians in the United States, maintaining a standard of excellence was a challenge for IR Company when it came to the company’s industrial safety training programs. An internal review of the company’s existing practices revealed a lack of continuity that caused unwarranted expense and undue burden on management, especially as they considered how to maintain high customer service standards. Until now, each of the company’s three primary business units conducted its operational health and safety training independently. Without a standard training platform, there were inconsistencies among business units that prevented management from rolling out global initiatives and staying current with changes in regulatory compliance standards.
Recognizing that training was an important component of its overall workflow improvement initiatives, IR looked to identify a solution provider with industry expertise in regulatory compliance training and specifically, compliance recertification, that offered a dynamic, easy-to-use, on-demand application at a price point that made sense. More importantly, the solution had to seamlessly integrate with the company’s existing legacy systems to ensure effective project deployment at all 30 facilities. They found the answer in Vivid Learning System’s eClarus Learning Management System and the company’s comprehensive compendium of courses.
Vivid Learning Systems (OTC:VVDL)is a leading online regulatory compliance-training provider and has delivered more than six million computer-based training lessons since 1995. Vivid’s eClarus Learning Management System is user-friendly for both students and administrators. Students access training quickly and efficiently with little need for orientation, while administrators operate in a secure, flexible training management environment where they have access to pre-built as well as ad hoc reporting functions. The eClarus solution provides 24/7 access to employee records and reports, dedicated technical and training support, ability to interface with other LMS & HR software systems, a scalable system that works well for small to large companies, customizable reporting, branding and corporate look and feel and the option to receive preloaded compliance training lessons.
A review of IR’s experiences using Vivid’s elearning application demonstrates how the company implemented a standardized program for each of its 30 manufacturing facilities resulting in a streamlined training process at a reduced cost and with enhanced employee proficiency and knowledge in critical areas.
Training solution makes an impact
Using Vivid’s online training solution, IR was able to optimize its training function while sharing the expense across two of three primary business units, allowing the company to realize an estimated 30 percent cost savings in the first year. Training expenses dropped as a result of the reduction and/or elimination of overhead for classroom training, on-demand access that allowed employees to utilize downtime more productively and standardized programming across all facilities that minimized the time employees spent adjusting to inconsistent procedures. Harder to measure were the savings that occurred as a result of increased knowledge in the many aspects of production operation, as well as a greater ability on the part of manufacturing managers to not only recognize procedural inefficiencies and modify them, but also ensure the procedures were being followed correctly. Further, the move to on-line training received an overwhelmingly positive response from employees and management alike, which helped facilitate rapid acceptance.
Industry expertise yields results
Vivid Learning Systems’ expertise in compliance and regulatory-based training in a broad range of industries enables the company to deliver best-in-class, off-the-shelf and customized web-based training designed to achieve compliance, optimize operational efficiencies and improve business performance. With a strong knowledge base, the company delivers effective, industry-specific solutions for companies both large and small. In fact, Vivid’s eClarus Learning Management System, a complete turn-key training solution, is built and managed with more than 20 years of computer and web-based training delivery and service experience. eClarus provides all of the training delivery, tracking and reporting features necessary for a powerfully effective and efficient learning management tool.
Vivid’s team of experienced instructional designers, graphics/multimedia developers and database and web programmers are engaged throughout the process, continuously re-evaluating and assessing training needs and approaches and customizing solutions specific to business needs. Further, Vivid’s responsive customer support staff provides companies with the highest level of customer service. In the case of Ingersoll Rand, Vivid not only provided the company with an integrated software solution, but also customized the application to adhere to its corporate branding and operational strategies.
Vivid’s e-learning application delivers reliable results. Measuring the business impact of implementing an e-learning solution is crucial to realizing the efficiencies and cost savings attributed to this dynamic training approach. However, according to the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and others, only three percent of all training courses are evaluated for business results. Ingersoll Rand recognized the value of tying training initiatives to business results and found a training partner that could make it a reality.
Reach Vivid at (509) 545-1800 or visit www.learnatvivid.com.
The following article was written by Stephanie Hartwig and published in the Smartmap Expo directory guide.
About Stephanie Hartwig
Stephanie is a communications consultant, and has more than 18 years of marketing, communications and public affairs experience in a broad range of industries. She has experience in article development, speech writing, strategic planning and implementation, grant writing, trade show management, video script writing and investor relations.
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About Vivid Learning Systems
Vivid Learning Systems is a leading provider of online training performance solutions. Established in 1995, Vivid is considered a pioneer in the application and delivery of leading edge computer-based technologies to corporate and government training programs across the country.
Leveraging the significant experience the company has earned in online content delivery, training development and database technologies, and the trust its customers have placed in its ability to produce quality products and services; Vivid has emerged as the “go-to” partner for Training Managers, Chief Information Officers, Compliance Officers and HR Directors.
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