In response to my post, "Message to Gov't: What the...?", Anonymous said: "For JI you are correct that Toyota does not use much "high" technology but when I toured the place w/ Mike Hoseus I saw a little training area where each work station had a...

In a 1949 report to the ILO, TWI Foundation director, Channing Dooley provides explanation of the benefits of Job Instruction. This is a good follow up to my previous post about the Job Safety manual, which was derived from the Job Instruction manual....

After being trained by the U.S. TWI Service during WWII, the Canadian Ministry of Labour adapted Job Instruction to the narrow field of safety, yielding an impressive J-skill program to the TWI world - simply called Job Safety. You can download a copy...

Simplicity not in Gov'ts Vocabulary As TWI blog readers have probably gathered, I’m a pretty simple guy. The J-skills are oozing with simplicity, so I naturally gravitate in their direction. Give me Job Relations any day and keep your fancy systems;...

Mark Warren at Tesla2.com and I have been chatting about early Henry Ford works. Mark brought up the name Walter Flanders and this got me to do some more digging. Apparently W. Flanders was one of the heavy hitters behind Ford's machine innovation and...