Case Study

Maritime Manufacturing

Learning Analytics to Drive Data-Driven Decision Making

How a Maritime Manufacturer Leverages Training Software

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.

  • Industry:

    Manufacturing

  • Objective:

    Leverage training to double capacity.

  • Result:

    Training is now a distinct competitive advantage.

 

Upskill Strategies for Manufacturing: Overcoming 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.

The 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.

Woman reaching out to move a sticky note that is on a whiteboard with many other sticky notes, while a man looks on with a puzzled expression.

This maritime manufacturer needed to scale up quickly, and prioritized training as the key to that growth.

Manual data entry, keeping vital content on paper, and tracking training with spreadsheets wasn’t working.

“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

The Solutions

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. Now, they:

Leverage Learning Analytics to gain insight into the causes and stressors of employee turnover.

Reduce spreadsheets 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.

A Boston Whaler boat on the open ocean

The 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
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

Support specialist in video conference with a training team.

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