New at PACK EXPO International is Redzone's Frontline Learning Module, an addition to the company's workforce solutions software platform. Richard Tester, Redzone's co-founder and CEO, says the new module aims to take tribal knowledge about operating manufacturing equipment out of the heads of machine operators and onto Redzone's platform as video, where it can be watched as a best practice by other employees.
"If you've run a filling machine, for example, for 25 years, you know the best way to use it, or do the startup or changeover on it," Tester says. "With our new module and an iPad or iPhone, you can record a quick two- or three-minute video, which can become a best practice for that machine at your company. It's like a YouTube application for the plant floor. Like anything in life today, if we want to learn how to change a tire on a car, for example, we can go to YouTube and watch a five-minute video, right? So we're introducing that technology onto the plant floor, and it looks at the whole frontline employee experience, which we think is something that's been massively overlooked in manufacturing for the last couple of decades."
