Case Study

A Maritime Manufacturing uses learning analytics to drive data-driven decision making

This maritime manufacturer engineered the most reliable and innovative boats on the market, and now they leverage training as a competitive advantage.

Overview

About the company

For more than 60 years, a maritime manufacturer has engineered the most reliable and innovative boats on the market. Today, they continue to push the boundaries with boats designed to be unsinkable and patented innovations that bring unparalleled luxury and practicality to boating.

Maritime Manufacturer

  • Industry:

    Manufacturing

  • Objective:

    Leverage training to double capacity.

  • Result:

    Training is now a distinct competitive advantage.

The goal

Overcome the skills gap

New jobs in manufacturing are opening at an exponential rate, and the skills gap is vast.

In-person knowledge transfer, new learning environments, and dynamic skill sets that prioritize both blue-collar training and tech-savviness will play a critical role in preparing future manufacturing workers to impact business growth. Managing training against this worker preparedness is a tall order. This maritime manufacturer experienced some of these dynamics early and came to Administrate seeking a solution to their onboarding challenges.

Woman in work overalls using a desktop computer while holding a clipboard in a stockroom.

Challenges

Big goals, bigger training challenges

When this maritime manufacturer came to Administrate, they were focusing on doubling capacity by leveraging training as a competitive advantage. They were facing challenges shared by many large-scale enterprise training programs.

  • Talent Retention: With 6-12 new employees being onboarded weekly, retaining their best talent was imperative, and they didn’t have a way to track the causes and stressors of turnover.
  • Managing complex training schedules: Training their employees was a huge undertaking, and maintaining visibility on work patterns, shift schedules, classroom space, equipment, and vendors through spreadsheets was becoming a hindrance.
  • Lack of insightful reporting: Their learning tech wasn’t integrated with critical business systems, which impacted data integrity and made data-driven decision making difficult.
Female executive shaking hands with a factory worker in a group meeting with industrial staff.
The turnover report we’ve built within Administrate helps us track turnover, automatically, every 30 days all the way to every 365 days. This helps us identify stresses and causes of turnover. It also allowed us to pinpoint exactly when our highest turnover was taking place.

Training Manager at a Maritime Manufacturer

Solution

Turning training into a talent retention strategy

For this maritime manufacturer, talent retention was the key to their long-term success, and they identified training as the catalyst to that competitive advantage.

  • Leverage learning analytics to gain insight into the causes and stressors of employee turnover.
  • Save time by managing all of their training logistics with one scheduling tool, rather than Excel or Google Sheets.
  • Get automated reports to reveal where employees are in their training, and the employees that are the most engaged with their learning paths.
Two engineers in safety gear reviewing equipment controls and inspecting machinery.
Since implementing Administrate, we’ve been able to bring a lot more visibility to the training program, which has given us the ability to make sure we know exactly where our greatest needs are, and how to tackle those situations.

Supervisor of Training at a Maritime Manufacturer

Results

Training is this maritime manufacturer’s competitive advantage

    • Significant reduction in employee turnover.
    • Tracks employee engagement and identifies areas for improvement, so they can leverage training as a competitive.

There’s more

Streamlining training operations empowers the whole team

Automate tedious tasks, centralize operations, and free up your training team to focus on what matters. Check out our other case studies to see how leading training teams put that time to good use.

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