Skills Management Software for Manufacturing
It's Time to Ditch Spreadsheets
It’s time to say goodbye to the manual tracking of skills, assessments, and training data in spreadsheets. 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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Take a quick guided tour to explore a few of Kahuna’s features. You’ll see how to track and manage competencies, close skills gaps, and ensure your frontline teams are ready for the work that matters most.
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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
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Driving Digital Transformation with a Skilled Frontline
80% of manufacturing CEOs are investing in digital transformation, but technology alone isn’t enough. Join Kahuna and the Manufacturing Millennial to learn how leading manufacturers are using validated skills data to turn digital transformation goals into real operational outcomes.
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.
Upskill, Reskill, and Cross-Train To Meet Changing Operational Demands. As manufacturing processes increase in complexity and new technology is integrated into operations, skills management helps you identify what training is needed to accelerate workforce proficiency and evolve your operations.
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.
FAQs
Kahuna helps manufacturers close skills gaps by providing a real-time view of workforce capabilities across roles, sites, and teams. The platform enables organizations to assess current competencies, identify gaps at the individual and organizational level, and prioritize upskilling efforts based on actual business and operational needs. With built-in gap analysis and role-based requirements, manufacturers can move from reactive training to strategic workforce development.
Kahuna supports a wide range of manufacturing roles, including machine operators, maintenance technicians, quality inspectors, engineers, frontline supervisors, and more. The platform tracks technical, safety, regulatory, and site-specific skills, and allows manufacturers to build custom requirements based on tools, equipment, certifications, and process standards.
Kahuna enables operations leaders to make informed skills-based deployment decisions by providing real-time visibility into who is qualified for specific tasks. With role-based assessments, validated skills data, gap analysis, and mobile access to competency records, leaders can match the right people to the right work. This helps improve efficiency, reduce rework, and support safer, more reliable operations.
Yes. Kahuna integrates with ERP, CMMS, MES, LMS, and HR systems commonly used in manufacturing. These integrations allow manufacturers to connect workforce and role data, align training completions with skill validations, and embed competency insights directly into operational processes and workflows.
Kahuna standardizes onboarding and training by assigning role-specific competencies as soon as new hires join. Progress is tracked through digital assessments, giving managers and trainers real-time visibility into onboarding status across all locations. This ensures consistent skill development, reduces time to productivity, and drives alignment across global or multi-site operations.
Kahuna helps manufacturers meet compliance requirements by providing a digital system to manage skills, certifications, and role-based training. The platform supports standards such as OSHA, ISO 9001 (Quality Management), FDA 21 CFR Part 11 (Electronic Records and Signatures), IATF 16949 (Automotive Quality Management), and other sector-specific guidelines. Kahuna allows organizations to define role-specific requirements, automate assessments and reassessments, and track compliance in real time. With audit-ready records and clear visibility into workforce readiness, manufacturers can streamline audits, reduce compliance risk, and support continuous improvement efforts.