Plant Launch
Start-Up Project Checklist
The choices you make or don’t make during a plant launch can have long-term
effects. Our plant launch checklist below contains key items we believe can help
you achieve the success that comes from aligning your technology investments with
a fully prepared workforce.
Count on GP Strategies to be there through every phase of plant launch.
- Develop a detailed training budget
- Select your quality system
- Choose the technology-based systems to track and maintain training
- Design flow for lean manufacturability
- Assess equipment reliability, availability, and maintainability
- Select employee performance management system
- Complete job profile designs
- Design visual displays for usability and efficiency
- Complete
training needs analysis
- Assign training management and coordination duties
- Develop comprehensive training and documentation bid specifications
- Select a reliable source for
technical documentation
- Select a reliable source for
training
- Select your employee recruiting and screening methodology
- Address core competency training topics:
- Industry overview
- Process overview
- Project overview
- Theory overview
- Safety
- Computer skills
- Culture skills
- Management skills
- Mechanical fundamentals
- Electrical fundamentals
- Quality instrumentation and control fundamentals
- Cover equipment-specific training topics
- Allocate commissioning support personnel
- Structure
on-the-job training program to support certification
- Put certification program in place based on required tasks
- Select a train-the-trainer program
- Select cross-training methodology
- Design continuous training program
There is no secret formula that dictates the need for our services. But GP Strategies has solutions
for every item you did not check, and we can help you to improve the items you did.
Consider the overall impact if each item addressed by the checklist above were improved
by just 10 percent. Read our ROI examples to see for yourself.
Contact us today to learn more about GP Strategies’ plant launch consulting services: