For several decades, the lack of a highly skilled workforce has been a major obstacle to improving food and beverage manufacturing performance. In recent years, more training courses and college-level educational programs have become available to address the problem, but one of the key ways to improve plant performance is through employee engagement.
A few months ago, the Alliance for Innovation & Operational Excellence (AIOE), a peer group sponsored by PMMI and dedicated to improving performance of CPG manufacturers and their suppliers by developing non-proprietary solutions to common production and operational challenges, began a series of ongoing meetings to create framework documents and guidelines to create employee engagement.