Food & Drink Industry

The Food and Drink sector is a highly competitive sector. Manufacturing teams face more and more challenges to established work practices to maintain their market share and respond to the demands of new products. Outcome Training Associates has worked with a range of clients in this sector whose aim was to develop skills and competences of their manufacturing teams..

The industry faces more and more pressures.

• Cost competiveness
• Regulatory requirements
• Competence
• Mergers / takeovers
• New workforce structures

The following case study highlights Outcome Training Associates' experience in the sector. For more details / client references please contact by clicking here.

A high profile client based in Ireland whose workforce had adopted practices that had evolved over many years. These practices were limiting the ability of the business to respond to market / product demands. Training followed the traditional without the verification of standards

Outcome Training Associates along with a strategic partner embarked on a period of analysis and discussion which resulted in a strategy to:

• raise technical awareness
• develop multi machine flexibility
• improvement in hygiene, housekeeping and line maintenance standards
• teamworking practices to improve accountability
• self management of activities

The resultant programme consisted of:

• New induction training
• Line training modules in
  • Depalletising
  • Rinsing, Filling, Capping of bottles
  • Labelling Machine
  • Packing machine
  • Palletising operations
• Process training modules in
  • Raw materials
  • Mixing and Blending
  • Pasteurisation
  • Homogenisation
  • Transfer and Storage

Since the project has started the subsequent phases have included:

• Train the Trainer
• Assessor Training
• Assessor Packs
• Developing Trainer Packs

Subsequently over 20 people were employed as a night shift team and they were achieving the aggressive targets set very quickly.

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