[Seminar Nagoya] How to Create and Review Basic Work Manuals in Manufacturing Sites

June 14, 2017

[Seminar Nagoya] How to Create and Review Basic Work Manuals in Manufacturing Sites

On Tuesday, July 25, 2017, at the Nagoya branch of Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Co., Ltd.

 

Learn from Case Studies: Solving Challenges with In-house Manuals with Exercises

How to Create and Review Basic Work Manuals in Manufacturing Sites

 

Will be held.

 

Recently, there has been an increasing demand for highly skilled personnel in the manufacturing field, and "how to efficiently develop personnel" has become a major issue. These personnel are not only new graduates, but also a wide range of people including seniors and foreigners are now being sought after.

Against this background, the theme of "what is a basic manual that everyone can understand" is being reexamined in the manufacturing field. In fact, many companies are working on the theme of "skill transfer, work efficiency, safety assurance, and cost reduction" through work manuals in the manufacturing field.

　On the other hand, in the field where work manuals are being created in-house while performing their original duties, there are challenges unique to in-house creation such as "not being able to take enough time as desired" and "not knowing where to start". In each company, there seems to be a lot of anxiety about whether this approach is really good, as there is a lack of reference information and success stories from other companies to solve these challenges.

What is an effective approach? In this course, based on our 30 years of experience as a manual production company, we will propose various approaches to address the various concerns of the manufacturing site.

 


Event Details

Date and Time
July 25, 2017 (Tuesday) 10:00-17:00
Location
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Nagoya Branch 6th Floor Seminar Venue (2-21-28 Izumi, Higashi-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture 461-0001) >>Access
Program
1. 5 Tips for Distinguishing Good and Bad Operation Manuals
2. Learning from Examples - Introduction of Each Company's Efforts
3. Problem-Solving Approach 1: Facilitating Consensus among Stakeholders
4. Problem-Solving Approach 2: Standardizing Operation Manuals
5. Problem-Solving Approach 3: Improving the Clarity of Table of Contents and Split Structure
6. Problem-Solving Approach 4: Techniques for Writing Clear and Understandable Sentences (with Exercises)
7. Problem-Solving Approach 5: Achieving Simultaneous Release in Japanese and English

Instructor

Yoshiyuki Yasuoka

Yoshiyuki Yasuoka

  • ・Technical Writing Experience: 17 years
  • - Engaged in projects to create operation manuals, business manuals, various instruction manuals, product utilization guides, and educational materials for corporate internal systems.
  • ・Active as a consultant for manual evaluation and manual creation for major manufacturers
  • ・Since 2008, I have been responsible for teaching dedicated instructors to the development department of a major FA equipment manufacturer's product manual.
  • - "Tips for creating easy-to-understand instruction manuals and reducing production costs" and "Techniques for creating manuals that are useful for multilingual deployment" are some of the themes that I have lectured on at seminars.
  • ・Conduct regular seminars as a lecturer at Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Co., Ltd. and Japan Techno Center Co., Ltd.
  • ・Presented "Introduction to Video Manuals" at the 2013 TC Symposium Special Session
  • ・Presented "Creating Video Manuals - Practical Edition" at the 2014 TC Symposium Special Session
  • ・2015 TC Symposium Case Study Presentation on "Solving Challenges with In-house Manuals"
  • ・2016 TC Symposium Case Study Presentation "Standardization of In-house Manuals: Business Improvement for the IoT Era"
  • ・In 2016, served as coordinator for the panel discussion "How to Train Industrial Equipment Manual Creators - Developing In-house Manual Talent and Skills" at the TC Symposium.
  • ・Presented at CEATEC JAPAN 2016: "Winning in the Global Competition! Seminar on Document Management and Operations in the IoT Era"

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    Kaori Horikoshi

    Kaori Horikoshi

  • ・Technical Writing Experience: 15 years
  • ・Engaged in project to create Microsoft Office product seminar materials, books, various product manuals, help, and business manuals
  • - Involved in manual evaluation, consulting for major electronics manufacturers, and development of seminar materials for major insurance company representatives.
  • ・Responsible for operating manual for multifunction printers (20 languages) as a translation director, not only for Japanese manuals.
  • ・Active as a machine translation consultant
  • ・ 2013 23rd JTF (Japan Translation Federation) Translation Festival "Approaches to Machine Translation in Multilingual Environments: From the Perspectives of Evaluation and Process" Lecture

 

 


If you wish to participate in the seminar, please apply from the website of Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, the organizer of the seminar.

 

 

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