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2024 WorkForge Product Release Overview

Written by WorkForge | Jan 29, 2025 10:10:07 PM

Content Updates

New and refreshed content ensures you and your team stay compliant and prepared for the evolving demands of the food manufacturing industry.

Industrial Maintenance Pathway

Part of: Functional Skills Pathways
Subject Matter Expert: Cliff Wiles, Wiles Consulting

  • Built to provide a foundation in key concepts, techniques, and best practices for industrial maintenance in manufacturing.
  • Learners should be able to contribute effectively to maintenance operations, ensure machinery functionality, troubleshoot issues, and maintain a safe and productive work environment.

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Health and Safety Micromodules

Part of: Foundational Skills Pathways

  • We reimagined our Health and Safety training to better suit busy schedules and enhance knowledge retention.
  • The 36 modules have been divided into 120 micromodules, each lasting 4 - 6 minutes. They are also available in Spanish.
  • This approach allows learners to absorb crucial information quickly, revisit key topics as needed, and stay focused on workplace safety.

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Food Safety Micromodules

Part of: Functional Skills Pathways
Subject Matter Expert: Erik Kurdalek - SME for Indiana Department of Health’s Food Protection Division and Head of Process and Product Development for Wick’s Pies.

  • Nearly 20 existing Food Safety modules have been transformed into approximately 74 concise micromodules.
  • These new micromodules, translated into Spanish, Burmese, and Karen, provide a time-efficient learning experience. They focus on essential knowledge for safely producing food.
  • Includes new, timely enhancements like SQF Module 11 coverage, preparation tips for on-site audits, and alignment with the latest federal regulations.
  • Modules now feature specific, relevant content such as bloodborne pathogens, electronic SDS storage, and BRCGS requirements.
  • Emphasis on practical actions for safe and legal operations, annual SDS reviews, and supervisory responsibilities for monitoring team behaviors in line with GMPs.

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Food Safety Blueprints

Part Of: Food Safety Micromodules

  • Our Food Safety Blueprints serve as essential tools to help employers and industry professionals better understand how our courses prepare teams for audit readiness.
  • Each blueprint outlines key topics covered in our Food Safety modules that directly align with audit requirements.​
  • Each blueprint clearly explains how the courses support compliance with critical regulatory standards.​
  • Each blueprint highlights the relevant food safety regulations, offering insights into how our courses address specific regulatory components (e.g., FSMA, USDA, FDA guidelines).​
  • It helps companies stay up-to-date with the latest compliance standards.

CNC Micromodules

Part of: Functional Skills Pathways
Subject Matter Expert: Landon Thompson - Manufacturing advisor at the BERKS Group, with 20+ years at MARUKA USA

  • The updated CNC learning pathway features concise micromodules that focus on essential CNC machining topics, making it easy for new and experienced employees to learn without unnecessary information.
  • The pathway includes courses on machinist onboarding, CNC lathes, CNC machining centers, and CNC fabrication, ensuring all employees gain crucial CNC knowledge.
  • Specialized courses cover workplace safety, tooling, blueprint reading, GD&T, and advanced machining techniques.

LMS Administrator Courses

Part Of: Available for all existing WorkForge clients using the WorkForge LMS.

  • Learning & Development Fundamentals​​

    • Provides a comprehensive introduction to learning and development principles.​
    • It is essential for all users and a prerequisite for earning the LMS Administrator Credential.
  • LMS Administrator Offering​​​

    • Learner Tasks:
      • Enrolling in courses and viewing assigned training.​
      • Taking assessments, earning completion certificates, and accessing learning transcripts.​
    • Admin Tasks:
      • Navigating the LMS interface efficiently.​
      • Expiring, reactivating, creating, and managing users and user groups.​
    • Content and Course Management:
      • Uploading and assigning content, creating quizzes.​
      • Creating courses with learning paths and recurring training offerings.​
    • Reporting and Configuration:
      • Running and scheduling reports, setting offering configurations.​
      • Creating courses with sub-objects for structured learning paths.

New LMS Features & Functionality

We enhanced our Learning Management System with new features designed to streamline training and provide actionable insights.

Skills Matrix

  • Track skills for all employees in attendance on the production floor in real time.​
  • Quickly identify what skills are lacking or are over-saturated.​
  • Equip team leads and supervisors to be able to communicate team ​needs for efficiency and production.

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On-The-Job Training (OJT)

  • Document and validate employee competency to ensure consistent product quality, employee safety, and compliance with legal/regulatory requirements. ​
  • Enforce consistency and governance, improving training quality and accelerating skills development.
  • To maintain the employee’s knowledge and skills throughout their career, refresher training frequency can be configured in the system, activating automated training reminders.

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Data Portal

  • New, real-time online data portal to help you track key WorkForge metrics:
    • Seat Utilization: View in real-time how many seats have been used and how many are left.
    • Active Users: View in real-time how many employees are accessing the system. This is different than seats utilized because a person who is not expired will still use a seat even if they do not access the portal in a given month.​
    • Course Completions: View in real-time how many new skills have been learned by your employees as measured by the completion of all objects within a course.​

QR Codes

  • Generate QR Codes to take attendance in classroom training sessions.​
  • Each session generates its own QR code so you can track who attended which session. ​
  • Produce a deep link to launch a specific course within the system. 

 

📣 Access to new and updated content releases, as well as certain LMS features and functionality, may be limited to clients with specific levels of Technology Enablement services.

For more details, please reach out to your Client Success contact or email us at clientsuccess@workforge.com.