2024 Poka User Conference

Mount Sterling Nestlé is one of the company's biggest production sites, with over 600 frontline workers and a lighthouse for others in the network. When the team was tasked with digitizing all training and skills tracking, the scope was daunting. In less than one year, they migrated 100 skills and 350 work instructions and eliminated all paper training material and Excel spreadsheets. In this session, we will get a close-up look at how a structured and methodical approach to content creation was the basis of success.

Back in 2018, Mars embarked on a journey with Poka to better support the E&T pillar of Mars Supply Excellence. One of the major achievements the team has realized is the ability to more easily identify and close skills gaps in production. In this session we will highlight how skills gap analysis now takes only 30 seconds with Poka and how focused training efforts have led to impressive improvements, including a 60% faster SMED.

Kimberly Clark is committed to enabling and connecting workers in support of safety and operational excellence. That commitment is now made clear to new hires at the Huntsville mill during onboarding, as Poka helps give a great first impression and accelerates time to productivity. In this session, the KCNA team will share how they have transformed role-specific training and laid the foundation for further adoption of Poka across the organization.

Nortek’s commitment to quality is a prime reason the company has become the world’s largest custom HVAC manufacturer. Delivering on that promise has required the engagement of team members at all levels of the organization. In this session, you will hear how Nortek has leveraged Poka to support its Total Quality Integration strategy and improve First Pass Yield by an impressive 13 percentage points.