Skills Management Software for Manufacturing
It's Time to Ditch Excel Spreadsheets
It’s time to say goodbye to the manual tracking of skills, assessments, and training data in Excel. Kahuna’s digitized skills management platform gives you validated skills insights in seconds, helping you visualize skills gaps, reskill and upskill employees, evolve operations with smart manufacturing technologies, retain talent, and capture expert knowledge in one platform—all on the plant floor.
As we invest in smart manufacturing and connected worker initiatives, investing in the development of our people is essential. Kahuna is helping us understand and develop our employee skills and align them to production needs.
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Trusted by Leading Manufacturing Organizations
We work with organizations that rely on validated skills data to make operations effective, efficient, and safe.
Build a Skills-Based Organization
Standardize Operational Outcomes with Reliability, Safety, Quality, and Efficiency
Building a skills-based organization requires validated insights to inform how operational needs align with workforce capabilities at the technical level.
Employees
Provide transparent insight into current and future role requirements, while empowering individual professional development.
Managers
Visualize your teams’ skills data to identify and deploy the most qualified individual, and develop targeted training to close existing skills gaps.
Executives
Align training initiatives with operational goals by addressing critical skill gaps, retaining expert talent, and standardizing skill assessment to meet regulatory requirements.
Track Skills and Training Data in One Skills Management Platform
Capture Expert Knowledge. Close Skills Gaps. Scale Training Initiatives.
Your manufacturing operations are complex. With advancing technology and evolving industry dynamics posing new operational challenges, manually tracking skills and training requirements in spreadsheets, LMS, or HRIS systems, will further strain your resources.
Kahuna manages skills data for frontline operations and measures operational impacts of your training. It allows you to visualize skills, training, and compliance data at the individual, plant, or enterprise level. Collect data around learning, work experience, and on-the-job training to accurately depict your employees capabilities. Kahuna optimize your skills and operational processes with enhanced efficiency and effectiveness.
Standardize Workforce Skills Data
Access Skills Insights Anytime From the Skills Matrix
Streamline and standardize skills and training requirements throughout the organization in one digital skills management system, providing accessible, accurate, and up-to-date insights at all times. With Kahuna, you can assign skills based on plant location, equipment, production lines, or facilities.
Identify and Close Skills Gaps
Create Gap Closure Plans to Deliver Targeted Training
Bring skills and training requirements into one view to understand and visualize skills gaps across your frontline workforce. Use these validated insights to inform strategic upskilling, reskilling, cross-training in manufacturing programs to shorten time to productivity and meet operational needs.
Make Critical Staffing Decisions
Keep Your Production Lines Running With Qualified Resources
Unplanned staffing shortages? No problem. Kahuna helps you identify qualified individuals so you can backfill roles, train efficiently, and quickly mobilize your resources across machines or production lines.
Engage and Retain Talent
Stop Critical Knowledge From Walking Out The Door
Assess the progression of competency levels of your workforce and quickly identify and differentiate the proficiency of employees from new to experts. Using role-specific proficiency data, you can ensure each project team is equipped with the right mix of skills based on customer, compliance, and project requirements.
Kahuna Supports Smart Manufacturing and Workforce Development
Understand Your Workforce Skills to Better Navigate Industry Changes
Webinar On-Demand: Driving Digital Transformation with a Skilled Frontline
Maximize the Value of Your Smart Factory Investments. Validated skills insights guide staffing decisions for operating advanced technology and processes. Identify which employees have the skills and knowledge to be deployed, and those that require training. Aligning these capabilities with operations enhances productivity, reduces downtime, and drives continuous improvement on the plant floor.
Clearly Define Target Skills For Each Role. In a tough job market, search for the right type of candidate, not necessarily the perfect candidate that can meet every skill requirement. A standardized and digitized skills management program can help develop the candidate’s proficiency in the required skills. This approach opens the job search aperture, and the development efforts increase the likelihood of retention within the organization.
Engaged Employees. Higher Retention. Interactive and accessible technology on the plant floor can increase employee engagement. Kahuna’s skills management system provides transparency into skills and training requirements, empowering employees to own their learning journey within the organization, and showing them that the business is invested in their development.
Capture Critical Knowledge Before It Walks Out the Door. Your people are a wealth of information for their skills, experiences, and critical plant knowledge. As employees enter retirement, the threat of losing this information is growing. Digitizing skills management ensures this data is captured in one system, making it accessible to employees throughout the business and building a culture of knowledge sharing within the organization.
Tie Compensation to Skilling. Give credit to employees for their skills, experience, and expertise. Rather than solely tying pay to job roles, skills-based pay entices individuals to seek out other training, education, or certification opportunities, ultimately developing a more robust workforce that can be more easily mobilized across the plant floor. Kahuna’s skills management system helps you keep track of these skills, feeding this data into your performance management system through an integration functionality.
How Does Skills Management Support Manufacturing Operations?
WEBINAR ON-DEMAND
Manufacturers are navigating a complex landscape with workforce shortages, supply chain disruptions, and advancing technology. Agility is essential to maintaining operations and increasing efficiency and productivity. Explore how Kahuna’s validated skills data enables a more agile workforce and robust manufacturing processes: